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The Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is seeking exceptional candidates for tenure-track or tenured faculty positions with expertise in fundamental science or engineering of advanced materials. Special consideration will be given to applicants with demonstrated accomplishments in one or more of the areas of bio-inspired materials, complex oxides/functional ceramics, advanced materials for energy, and metallic materials. To be considered for tenured positions, applicants must have achieved national and international recognition for their scholarship. Faculty members in the Department are expected to teach undergraduate and graduate courses, and initiate and sustain a vigorous graduate research program.
The Department has 27 faculty and more than 225 undergraduate and 185 graduate students, with nationally ranked graduate and undergraduate programs. The Department offers a rich research environment that spans experimental, computational and theoretical studies in biomaterials, ceramics, complex fluids, metals, polymers, electronic and photonic materials. Extensive state-of-the-art experimental and computational facilities are housed on campus in the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, the Beckman Institute, and NCSA.
Applicants must hold an earned doctorate in an appropriate field. Salary and rank will be commensurate with qualifications. The proposed starting date for these positions is as soon as possible after the closing date. To ensure full consideration, applications must be received prior to 5 December 2007. Interviews may take place during the application period, but a decision will not be made until after the closing date.
Position Advertisement [pdf]
Applications accepted online at http://my.mse.uiuc.edu/join
Closing date: 12/05/07