Assistant/Associate/Full Professor – Engineering at the Human-Natural Interface

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Assistant/Associate/Full Professor – Engineering at the Human-Natural Interface

As part of a strategic initiative in the areas of Urban Coastal Sustainability and Environmental Health, Northeastern University seeks faculty candidates for tenured or tenure-track appointments at the assistant, associate, or full professor level in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering across the broad area of Engineering at the Human-Natural Interface: Environmental Bioprocess, Air/Atmospheric, and Coastal Systems. Interested candidates may be considered for joint appointments in other departments commensurate with their areas of expertise. We seek candidates in three areas, including candidates at the intersection of these areas:
Environmental Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering, advancing the frontier in resource recovery and/or renewable energy at the interface of water quality and environmental health, including theory-driven management and manipulation of microbial communities in engineered systems, by leveraging experimental and computational approaches. Research strengths may include synthetic biology and/or ecology, kinetic modeling and associated experiments, genomics, and process technology development and optimization.
Sustainability and Resilience of Urban Coastal Systems, advancing the frontier in urban coastal systems, with a particular interest in coastal dynamics or coastal and ecological engineering related to resilience, climate change and adaptation, and security. Research strengths may include field observation/sensing, numerical modeling, integration of multi-process, multi-system models (e.g., biological, chemical, ecological and geophysical) and/or observational data, climate and/or land use change impacts on coastal processes, and coupled natural-engineered-human systems.
Air and Atmospheric Systems Engineering, advancing a fundamental understanding of atmospheric chemistry and physical processes with translation to engineering for urgent societal priorities. Research strengths may include urban indoor and outdoor air quality, impacts of industrial aerosols on weather variability and extremes, engineering for air pollution mitigation, the consequences of greenhouse gas emissions on regional to global climate and associated implications, improving integrated capabilities for measurement, modeling, and analysis through the development and adaptation of sensing technologies, numerical models, artificial intelligence, and integrated sensor-model-data systems.
Candidates should have an interdisciplinary background in a combination of civil/environmental engineering, atmospheric physics/chemistry, environmental health, climate modeling, computational sciences, machine learning, or similar fields.
The hiring efforts at Northeastern University seek to foster education and research across disciplinary boundaries. Through these hires, we aim to create a signature effort at the interface of the built and biological environments that will foster adaptation of urban living to inevitable global change. The successful candidates are expected to demonstrate a proven ability to sustain a research program with an emphasis on interdisciplinary and translational research, teach both undergraduate and graduate classes, and be active, recognized leaders in their disciplines.
Candidates should be committed to fostering diverse and inclusive environments as well as to promoting experiential learning, which are central to a Northeastern University education.
For further information see: http://www.civ.neu.edu/civ/search.
Dr. Q. Jim Chen, Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and
Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences
Northeastern University
471 Snell Engineering Center
360 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA 02115
Phone: 617.373.5465
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