Description

The Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering invites applications for a full time, non-tenured, renewable faculty position in Biochemistry/Biomolecular Engineering with a start date of January 2020 or September 2020.

New York University (NYU) is one of the top private universities in the United States. NYU Tandon has an illustrious past as Brooklyn Poly and NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering.  Our mission is to excel in research, teaching and entrepreneurship. We aim to inspire and educate engineers for the 21st century. We are committed to quality, integrity, and respect for each other. We take pride in our high numbers of women students and students who are the first in their family to go to college. We seek faculty who have a real passion for a culturally diverse environment. Tandon belongs to the Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (HERC), which assists with dual-career searches.

With NYU's unrivaled global network of campuses, we promote a truly global engineering education. We are deeply committed to teaching and learning, and we lead in online education and in K-12 STEM outreach. Our students conduct Vertically Integrated Research projects and participate in an extensive undergraduate summer research program.

An Industry Professor's primary roles are teaching, mentoring and educational innovation, and the position may also entail some administrative work and outreach. The department offers BS degrees in Biomolecular Science and in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, MS degrees in Chemical Engineering, in Chemistry, in Biotechnology and in Biotechnology and Entrepreneurship, and a PhD degree in Chemical Engineering.

Qualifications

We invite applicants for classroom and laboratory teaching in all areas of biochemistry, with particular emphasis on Biochemistry/Biomolecular Engineering subjects such as, for example, Bioseparations and Bioreactor Design, Protein Engineering, and/or Genetic Engineering to undergraduate students at Tandon. You should be an excellent teacher. You should have a Ph.D. in Biochemistry or a closely related discipline and a record of industrial/postdoctoral experience and/or teaching in these areas.

Application Instructions

You should submit:

Cover letter

Current CV

Recent teaching evaluations (if available)

Teaching statement describing experience and teaching philosophy

Names and contact information for three references.

We will review applications starting immediately and will continue until we fill the position; we encourage you to submit early.