Simons Empire Faculty Fellowship

Position Information

Position Title: Simons Empire Faculty Fellowship

Department: Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

Posting Link: https://www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/60835

Position Summary

The Simons Foundation (SF) and the Simons Foundation International (SFI) have created the Simons Empire Faculty Fellowship program to stimulate faculty hiring across the state of New York.

With support from the Simons Foundation, the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo (UB) is recruiting for a strategically aligned faculty cluster to accelerate human-centered neuroscience, translational discovery, and neurotechnology innovation.

The Jacobs School is recruiting for two tenure-track faculty positions:

Assistant Professor - AI-Guided Organoid-Based Neuroscience

The Jacobs School seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor with expertise in organoid neuroscience and high-content phenotyping. The successful candidate will establish a research program focused on human iPSC-derived cerebral organoids or assembloids to model brain development, neural circuit formation, or disease pathophysiology. A major emphasis will be on the development of scalable imaging pipelines that leverage artificial intelligence to extract structural and functional data from live and fixed organoid systems.

Assistant Professor - Neuroengineer (Lab-on-a-Chip Platforms for Brain Discovery)

The Jacobs School seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor with expertise in neuroengineering and the development of experimental platforms to model human neural systems. The successful candidate will design and apply microphysiological systems, such as lab-on-a-chip or biosensor-integrated constructs, to study neural network dynamics, disease mechanisms, or drug response using in vitro or ex vivo systems.

Minimum Qualifications: PhD or equivalent degree.

Salary Range: Competitive