Director Alliance for Neurodevelopment Research
Director Alliance for Neurodevelopment Research
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The School of Neuroscience and the Fralin Life Science Institute at Virginia Tech invite applications at the Associate or Full Professor rank to lead the newly established Alliance for Neurodevelopment Research and join the existing interdisciplinary School of Neuroscience faculty.
With 50 affiliate faculty across six colleges Virginia Tech is wellpositioned to become a national leader in neurodevelopmental research by leveraging existing areas of strength across the University. Current research programs span development and maturation of brain cell types and synaptic development neurogenesis and circuit development language development learning juvenile animal behavior synaptic plasticity the role of environmental toxins stress and immune system dysfunction on brain development. These programs intersect with researchers studying human brain development.
The successful candidate will have a demonstrated history of significant and ongoing wellfunded research scholarly achievement and a distinguished national/international reputation in the neurodevelopment field. Additional desired qualifications of the new Director for the Alliance for Neurodevelopment Research include demonstrated increasing leadership responsibilities problemsolving skills ability to work across organizational boundaries to bring together faculty staff and trainee stakeholders a commitment to inclusive leadership including enthusiasm to foster and promote a diverse equitable and inclusive environment.
Additionally the successful candidate will have the purposedriven leadership to execute and carry out a vision for the Alliance including a commitment to create community across faculty grow the national reputation of neurodevelopment research and enhance training opportunities for trainees at all levels at Virginia Tech. This position will offer a highly competitive startup package and laboratory space.
Applications must be submitted online at (Posting #530572 and should include:
- Cover Letter (describing their interest in the School of Neuroscience and the Alliance for Neurodevelopmental Research)
- Curriculum Vitae
- Three References
- 3page Research and Vision Statement
- 1page Teaching Statement (describing an integrated vision for Neuroscience education)
- Diversity/Principles of Community Statement
Review of applications is ongoing and will continue until the position is filled.
About the School of Neuroscience and the Fralin Life Sciences Institute
School of Neuroscience
Established in 2015 the School of Neuroscience is a collaborative academic research environment with 25 primary and over 50 affiliate neuroscience faculty a Neuroscience Ph.D. program and over 800 undergraduate neuroscience majors. Using organisms from flies to humans the School of Neuroscience faculty explore how the brain develops and ages how neurons and glia interreact with one another to create functional circuits and how these circuits create or modulate behavior such as learning decisionmaking and sleep. Our researchers are looking at these questions in the healthy brain in neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism in psychiatric disease in neurodegenerative diseases including Parkinsons and Alzheimers disease in drug abuse and in brain injury.
Fralin Life Science Institute
The FLSI is a strategic university investment institute whose mission is to enhance the quality quantity and competitiveness of life and environmental science research education and outreach within Virginia Tech. The Institute creates and facilitates opportunities for cooperative and productive research among faculty across the university through targeted investment of seed funding shared research facilities and laboratory space. FLSI has approximately 350 faculty affiliates across all nine Virginia Tech colleges and supports hundreds of graduate students and postdocs. Among the Institutes major investments are five research centers: Center for Neurodevelopment Research Global Change Center; Center for Coastal Studies; Center for Emerging Zoonotic and Arthropodborne Pathogens; and the Translational Plant Sciences Center. With approximately 40 fulltime employees the Institute currently manages five major research facilities. The Institute is responsible for enabling cuttingedge research through identifying obtaining operating and coordinating core services that include mass spectrometry genomics imaging and stateoftheart highperformance computing. New investments are expected to embrace systems approaches that take full advantage of the interface of theoretical experimental and computational science. Major initiatives like the growth in health and biomedical sciences including growth at the Roanoke Health Sciences and Technology Campus collaborations with the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute and their new partnerships with Childrens National Hospital in Washington DC; the Virginia Tech Innovation Campus; the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative; and the Virginia Tech National Security Institute promise to accelerate growth in Virginia Techs research enterprise.
Required Qualifications
Applicants must demonstrate a strong background in neurosciencerelated research as evidenced by:
- Demonstrated history of significant and ongoing wellfunded research scholarly achievement and a distinguished national/international reputation in the neurodevelopment field.
- Demonstrated increasing leadership responsibilities problemsolving skills and ability to work across organizational boundaries to bring together faculty staff and trainee stakeholders.
- A commitment to inclusive leadership including enthusiasm to foster and promote a diverse equitable and inclusive environment.
- Clear examples of purposedriven leadership to execute and carry out a vision for the Alliance including a commitment to create community across faculty grow the national reputation of neurodevelopment research and enhance training opportunities for trainees at all levels;
- A doctorate (Ph.D. M.D. MD/Ph.D. DVM) in neuroscience or related field.
Appointment Type
Regular
Salary Information
Commensurate with Experience
Review Date
9/25/2024; Ongoing Until Filled
Additional Information
The successful candidate will be required to have a criminal conviction check.
The position may require some travel to conferences and meetings.
About Virginia Tech
Located in Blacksburg Virginia with growing campuses in Roanoke and the Washington D.C. metro area Virginia Tech is a top 20 public research institution. With over $556 million in annual research expenditures including rapidly expanding research and innovation capabilities across Research Frontiers Virginia Tech is a national leader in research that is diverse dynamic and impactful. Major initiatives like the growth in health and biomedical sciences including growth at the Roanoke Health Sciences and Technology Campus Fralin Biomedical Research Institute and their new partnerships with Childrens National Hospital in Washington DC; the Virginia Tech Innovation Campus; the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative; and the Virginia Tech National Security Institute promise to accelerate growth in Virginia Techs research enterprise. Embodying its motto of Ut Prosim (That I may serve) and delivering on its landgrant promise Virginia Techs research enterprise spans medicine to physics engineering to humanities and agriculture to the arts. It is broad in its sponsorship partnership discipline and impact. Virginia Tech is a just and inclusive community that welcomes encourages and supports individuals who desire to contribute to and benefit from the institutions missions of learning discovery and engagement.
Building on its motto of Ut Prosim (that I may serve) Virginia Tech is dedicated to InclusiveVT serving in the spirit of community diversity and excellence. We seek candidates who adopt and practice the Principles of Community which are fundamental to our ongoing efforts to increase access and inclusion and to create a community that nurtures learning and growth for all of its members. Both the School of Neuroscience and Fralin Life Science Institute feel strongly that inclusion equity and diversity are values that we promote and hold in the highest regard. To be successful faculty must not only excel in the domains of scholarship education and service but are expected to contribute to enhancing diversity equity and inclusion in the School Institute University and/or community.
Virginia Tech does not discriminate against employees students or applicants on the basis of age color disability sex (including pregnancy) gender gender identity gender expression genetic information national origin political affiliation race religion sexual orientation or military status or otherwise discriminate against employees or applicants who inquire about discuss or disclose their compensation or the compensation of other employees or applicants or on any other basis protected by law.
If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation please contact Natalie Langwosky at during regular business hours at least 10 business days prior to the event.
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full Time
