The University of California, Santa Barbara seeks to hire a highly creative and productive individual to fill an endowed chair in Systems Biology. The opening has resulted from an innovative philanthropic gift that will enable UCSB to jump-start new fields of scholarly inquiry and to strengthen existing cutting-edge research programs across disciplines through the recruitment of eminent scholars. The endowment for these chairs has been generously donated by UCSB Chemical Engineering Professor Duncan Mellichamp and his wife, Suzanne.
It is anticipated that the faculty position will be filled at the senior level, but junior level candidates with exceptional records are also encouraged to apply. UCSB’s Engineering and Life Science programs are consistently ranked among the top in the world. Much of this success can be attributed to UCSB’s unique environment for multidisciplinary collaboration, and its recognized strengths in supporting departments including Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Materials, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Ecology Evolution and Marine Biology, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Mathematics and Physics. UCSB’s core strengths in Systems Biology are supported and enhanced by a collection of interdisciplinary research and education centers, including the ARO-sponsored Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies, the Center for Control Engineering and Computation, the California NanoSystems Institute, the NSF-sponsored Materials Research Laboratory, the NSF-sponsored Center for Bio-image Informatics and the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics.
A recent initiative at UCSB is a new graduate Program in Biomolecular Science and Engineering (BMSE), which has brought faculty and students together from the above departments to work on challenging interdisciplinary problems in biochemistry, molecular biology, bioengineering and biomolecular materials. The new Institute for Collaborative Biotechnology (ICB), a $50 million ARO-funded research partnership with Caltech and MIT, has significant thrusts in systems analysis and modeling of complex biological networks. It is anticipated that the successful candidate would become actively engaged in both BMSE and ICB.
Additional faculty positions in Systems Biology and related areas in the Life Sciences and Engineering are expected over the next few years.
The academic appointment may be in one or more of the departments mentioned above, or in some combination of departments, programs, and/or organized research units. Highly qualified individuals from all backgrounds relevant to Systems Biology are encouraged to apply. Specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to: bio-image analysis & modeling, synthetic biology, bioinformatics, computational biology, biomolecular motors, developmental networks, systems analysis of biological networks.
The search committee is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community through research, teaching and service.
Application for the position is open until it is filled. Review of applications will begin immediately; those received by December 31, 2005 will be considered for the first round of interviews. Applications must be submitted electronically in PDF format to sysbioch@engineering.ucsb.edu. Applications should contain a letter briefly outlining career plans, a statement of research and teaching interests, curriculum vitae, and names and contact information for 3 – 5 references. Address applications to:
Systems Biology Search Committee
University of California, Santa Barbara
Attention: Department of Chemical Engineering
The University of California is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer