Job Summary
The Department in Earth and Environmental Science in the College of Science at the University of Texas at Arlington invites applications for an Open Rank (Assistant Associate or Full Professor) Tenure Track position in the broad area of environmental exposomics as part of larger multidepartment omics cluster initiative within the College of Science . We seek a broadlytrained scientist who complements the interdisciplinary nature of the department and college to integrate omicbased approaches with environmental science. Relevant research areas for this hire would include: 1. machine learning of multidimensional environmental and health data to discover the etiology and pathology of chronic diseases; 2. study of collective effects of environment (physical chemical biological exposure climate change) on organisms including One Health remote sensing (land changes pathogens zoonotic disease); 3.exposomic global health data analytics (infectious disease climate change) 4.Computational models for processing multiOMICs data (overlay data from different strata of OMICs and environmental epidemiological investigation); 5.Omic (epigenetic transcriptomic proteomic etc. signatures of environmental exposure and their impacts on health. Opportunities for collaboration exist within the department in the areas of geosciences environmental chemistry and toxicology environmental health climate change atmospheric chemistry and with other research groups in the College of Science in the areas of genomics proteomics biochemistry and data science. The ideal candidate would add to existing strengths in omicscale approaches within the department and college and benefit from existing and planned expansions of related infrastructure at UTA including the North Texas Genome Center the Shimadzu Center for Advanced Analytical Chemistry and the Division of Data Science. Additional resources in the department include the Shimadzu Institute for Research and Technologies such as the Center for Environmental Forensics and Material Science and an ultraclean laboratory within the Earth and Environmental Science building.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
Standard research expectations for faculty include publishing research in peerreviewed journals acquiring research grants and advising undergraduate and graduate students and postdocs in research. Startup packages are provided to enable new faculty to jumpstart their research group in advance of winning research grants. Faculty are expected to continuously improve their teaching and UTA offers Learning and Development Resources as well as opportunities with the STEM Education Research Collaboratorium and Resource Center. Service duties include departmental committee work (such as organizing colloquia graduate student admissions or faculty hiring) service to the university service to the community and national service to research and education infrastructure. Faculty often serve on national review panels referee journal articles and engage in public education and outreach.
Required Qualifications
Applicants should have a doctoral degree in environmental science or in the geosciences. We seek an individual with an established research and mentorship record who will develop new and expand existing collaborations among faculty researchers and students within and outside the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences as part of the Omicsrelated cluster initiative in the College of Sciences.
Required Experience:
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