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Open Rank: Assistant/Associate/Professor - Sustainable Blue Economies

About the Opportunity

About Northeastern:

Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experiential lifelong learning. Our approach of integrating real-world experience with education, research, and innovation empowers our students, faculty, alumni, and partners to create worldwide impact.

Our global university system provides our community and academic, government, and industry partners with unique opportunities to think locally and act globally. The system-which includes 13 campuses across the U.S., U.K., and Canada, 300,000-plus alumni, and 3,000 partners worldwide-serves as a platform for scaling ideas, talent, and solutions.

Northeastern's personalized, experiential undergraduate and graduate programs lead to degrees through the doctorate in 10 colleges and schools across our campuses. Learning emphasizes the intersection of data, technology, and human literacies, uniquely preparing graduates for careers of the future and lives of fulfillment and accomplishment.

Our research enterprise, with an R1 Carnegie classification, is solutions-oriented and spans the world. Our faculty scholars and students work in teams that cross not just disciplines, but also sectors-aligned around solving today's highly interconnected global challenges and focused on transformative impact for humankind.

About the Opportunity:

The College of Science at Northeastern University invites applications for positions at all ranks (Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor), beginning in academic year 2023-2024 in the field of Sustainable Blue Economies broadly defined. Primary appointments will be in Marine and Environmental Sciences with joint appointments in other departments including the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Department of Psychology, and/or the D'Amore-McKim School of Business. Appointments will have the opportunity to collaborate in cross-disciplinary teams across the University and will complement existing strengths.

This opportunity is part of a broader Food, Water, Energy Nexus thematic search. If interested in other opportunities under the Food, Water, Energy Nexus theme, click here: Open Rank Faculty Search: Cross Disciplinary Search- Food, Energy, Water Nexus

The College comprises six departments: Biology, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Marine and Environmental Sciences, Mathematics, Physics, and Psychology. Cross-disciplinary research programs and appointments are strongly encouraged within the College, and across the University.

Seafood presently accounts for 17% of global protein intake and with projected population growth, this reliance will exceed 70%. Demand will be increasingly difficult to meet given that 60% of the world's largest natural fisheries are already heavily or over-exploited. Aquaculture accounts for almost half of global seafood production, but the market is dominated by China with the US efforts contributing an anemic 2% to the global market. Sustainable Blue Economies represent a transformative opportunity for the US market, but macroscale (climate change) and local impacts, including social-political barriers that emerge because of coastal pollution from aquaculture operations, will continue to stymie progress. Overcoming this viscosity will require multidisciplinary collaborations involving natural, social and cognitive scientists, engineers, political scientists and decision makers, and private sector incubators and stakeholders. We seek the broad expertise necessary to enhance the security and sustainability of coastal food production through aquaculture, including but not limited to: fisheries science; sensitivity of marine species to climate change; ecological and evolutionary genomics; social, economic and cognitive barriers to the adoption of aquaculture; and innovative financing and engineering solutions to sustainable aquaculture productivity.

The Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences (MES, https://cos.northeastern.edu/marine-environmental-sciences/) includes 21 tenured/tenure-track faculty and 7 Research or Teaching Professors, 43% of whom are women and/or from underrepresented groups. MES embraces interdisciplinary teaching and research and counts 10 faculty among it ranks that have joint appointments in other colleges or departments. The Department currently supports approximately 500 undergraduate majors in Environmental and Sustainability Science, Environmental Studies, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Marine Biology. In addition, MES enrolls more than 150 students in its Masters Programs in Environmental Science and Policy and Marine Biology and 35 students in its PhD program in Marine and Environmental Sciences. In partnership with the Coastal Sustainability Institute and Marine Science Center, the MES community continues to lead the way in creating new knowledge and innovative solutions that promote cleaner, safer, smarter and more equitable coastal communities.

Northeastern is home to the Coastal Sustainability Institute, the Global Resilience Institute, the Barnett Institute for Chemical and Biological Analysis, the Center for Drug Discovery, the Institute for Chemical Imaging of Living Systems, the Network Science Institute, the Northeastern University Center for Renewable Energy Technology, an NSF Frontier Center in Theoretical Biological Physics, and the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Complex Systems, providing a rich multidisciplinary intellectual environment.

Our tenure and promotion process values collaborative research and teamwork. Hires will be mentored for success, with mentoring teams and group guidance. In addition, a strong and effective faculty development strategy is part of the Northeastern institutional mission. The ADVANCE Office of Faculty Development office works in conjunction with the Office of Research Development (ORD), the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion (OIDI), the Center for Advancing Teaching and Learning Through Research (CATLR), and University Decision Support (UDS) to provide programs and trainings to further develop and support a thriving faculty.

Northeastern University is a global university system. Positions will primarily be on the Boston campus but may be available at any of our 14 campus locations. Opportunities to collaborate extend beyond the University.

At Northeastern University, we embrace a culture of respect, where each person is valued for their contribution and is treated fairly. We oppose all forms of racism. We support a culture that does not tolerate any form of discrimination and where each person may belong. We strive to have a diverse membership, one where each person is trained and mentored to promote their success. See our website for more information about the College and its Leadership Team.

Responsibilities:

The potential hires are expected to develop vigorous research programs cross cutting the fields of environmental and sustainability science, civil and environmental engineering, cognitive psychology and business. Faculty members at Northeastern are expected to develop independent research programs that attract external funding; teach courses at the graduate and undergraduate level; supervise students and postdocs in their area of research; and participate in service to the department, university, and discipline. Qualified candidates must have excellence in, or a demonstrated commitment to, working with diverse student populations and/or in a culturally diverse work and educational environment.

Qualifications:

Applicants must have a PhD in marine and environmental science (or a related field life science field) and experience engaging in multidisciplinary research by the appointment start date. We encourage applicants from a wide range of backgrounds, including academia and industry.

All applicants should have a strong record of scholarly accomplishment that demonstrates the ability to build a strong research program. Candidates seeking appointment at the Associate or Full Professor level should have substantial research productivity and an established history of grant support and academic service. Research excellence is the top-most priority. Depending on the research profile and expertise, a joint or affiliate appointment in another department(s) within the University is possible.

Additional Information:

Interested candidates should apply here with a curriculum vita that includes a list of publications, statements addressing the prompts below, and names and contact information for at least three professional references from whom letters of reference can be solicited as needed. Applications will be reviewed beginning on October 30, 2022.

Successful faculty at Northeastern will be dynamic and innovative scholars with a record of research and teaching excellence and a commitment to contributing to improved equity, diversity, and inclusion. Thus, strong candidates for this faculty position will have the expertise, knowledge, and skills to build their research, pedagogy, and curriculum in ways that reflect and enhance this commitment. Please indicate how your expertise, knowledge, and skills have prepared you to contribute to this work with written statements addressing the following prompts:

Research statement:

Please describe the focus of your research, including the questions you have identified, the funding you have received to support the work (if applicable), the results you have discovered, and the products of these efforts. Highlight any cross-disciplinary research efforts you have undertaken. Please also describe any research you have undertaken with students, with the external community, and/or with individuals from marginalized groups. Finally, please outline the research directions you foresee pursuing in the College of Science, any cross-disciplinary and collaborative aspects, and the strategies you will take to address each direction.

Teaching statement:

Please summarize your past instructional and mentorship experiences, your pedagogical philosophy, your plans/goals for teaching in the College of Science (including existing and proposed courses), and your strategies for teaching and mentoring a diverse cohort of undergraduate and graduate students.

Equity statement:

Please provide a statement describing a time when you altered or changed your approach to research, teaching, or service because of the diversity of the group you were working with or your awareness of marginalized populations. What changes did you make, and what did you learn from this situation? We are interested in how you respond to such situations, not the identities of the people involved, so please only disclose what you are comfortable with. Your statement should demonstrate an understanding of the barriers facing individuals from groups marginalized in your field and be in alignment with Northeastern's mission to reflect the diversity of the societies in which it maintains campuses and to meet the educational needs and interests of its diverse population. Some faculty candidates may not have substantial past experience. If that is the case, we recommend focusing in your statement on the types of activities you think could be useful.

Northeastern University is an equal opportunity employer, seeking to recruit and support a broadly diverse community of faculty and staff. Northeastern values and celebrates diversity in all its forms and strives to foster an inclusive culture built on respect that affirms inter-group relations and builds cohesion.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

To learn more about Northeastern University's commitment and support of diversity and inclusion, please see: www.northeastern.edu/diversity.

Position Type

Academic

Additional Information

Northeastern University is an equal opportunity employer, seeking to recruit and support a broadly diverse community of faculty and staff. Northeastern values and celebrates diversity in all its forms and strives to foster an inclusive culture built on respect that affirms inter-group relations and builds cohesion.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

To learn more about Northeastern University's commitment and support of diversity and inclusion, please see www.northeastern.edu/diversity.


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