Tenure-Track Assistant Professor

The Department of Biological Sciences at Wayne State University is searching to fill a 9-month, tenure-track Assistant Professor faculty position in the areas of Behavior, Physiology, or Cell Biology with an expected starting date of August 16, 2024. The Department is particularly interested in future leaders who underlying biological function and disease states.

Applicants must have a Ph.D. degree, postdoctoral experience, and an outstanding record of research achievement with the promise to establish a vigorous, externally funded research program. Candidates are expected to adopt and develop course offerings at the undergraduate and graduate student level, participate in graduate and undergraduate research training, and perform service employ systems-based approaches to define molecular, genetic, and physiological processes u at the departmental, college, and university level.

Wayne State University, founded in 1868, is an internationally-recognized urban research university offering more than 350 academic programs through 13 schools and colleges to approximately 24,000 students. Wayne State’s main campus (located in the Detroit Midtown / Cultural Center) comprises 100 buildings over 200 acres. In the Department of Biological Sciences, the candidate will complement highly integrative research programs in gene regulation, virology, microbiology, cell biology, physiology, metabolism, neural development, behavior, molecular evolution, ecology, and environmental sciences and join a strong mission in undergraduate and graduate student education.

Applications need to include a cover letter, a curriculum vitae, a 2-page statement of research plans, a 2-page teaching portfolio, and three letters of reference. Applications and inquiries can be sent directly to the Faculty Search Committee: ad5348@wayne.edu. Complete applications submitted by April 5, 2024 will receive full consideration.