Job Description
The Department of Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in Fluid Mechanics. Candidates with a background in all areas of fluid mechanics, including both experimental and computational expertise, will be considered.
The Department of Mechanical Engineering has 31 tenured and tenure-track faculty members, 18 research and teaching faculty members, 301 undergraduates, 344 graduate students, and 23 postdocs. The Whiting School of Engineering and the Johns Hopkins University actively encourage and support interdisciplinary research through school-level research centers and cross-divisional research institutes. The Department of Mechanical Engineering has strong affiliations with the Center for Environmental and Applied Fluid Mechanics (CEAFM), the Ralph O'Connor Sustainable Energy Institute (ROSEI), the Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Science (IDIES), and the Johns Hopkins Allied Physics Laboratory (APL). More information about the Department can be found at http://me.jhu.edu and the Whiting School of Engineering at http://engineering.jhu.edu.
Preferred and Required Qualifications
Applicants must hold a Ph.D. in an engineering or a closely related field and will be expected to establish an independent and internationally recognized research program. We seek a colleague who has a strong commitment to teaching and mentoring at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and who will contribute to our community by embracing excellence and open communications.
All applicants should submit a curriculum vitae, a research statement, a teaching statement, and three representative publications, plus complete contact information for at least three references. Applications must be submitted online at https://apply.interfolio.com/192099. Review of applications will begin around January 15, 2027, but the Department will consider exceptional applicants at any time.
The Whiting School of Engineering and the Department of Mechanical Engineering are committed to building a diverse educational environment and consistent with the University’s goals of achieving excellence in all areas, we will assess the comprehensive qualifications of each applicant.
Questions can be addressed to [contact details available in the full listing] – please use the subject line “Mechanical Engineering Faculty Search at JHU Mechanical Engineering”.
