Department Head in Chemistry 2022
- Employer
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Location
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Salary
- Negotiable
- Closing date
- Feb 3, 2022
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- Field of specialization
- Education
- Work Function
- Management-General
- Job Type
- Full time
Job Details
The Department of Chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University (https://www.cmu.edu/chemistry/) seeks a dynamic and forward-thinking leader for the position of Department Head. The successful candidate will lead the Department into an exciting future, with resources and opportunities provided by a new interdisciplinary science building and large investments in automated science (https://www.cmu.edu/leadership/president/campus-comms/2021/2021-05-20.html), empowering the Department to tackle critical problems in sustainability, health and life sciences.
The Department of Chemistry currently includes 24 tenure-track, 5 teaching-track, and 3 research-track faculty members, a graduate program with 76 Ph.D. students, and 96 upperclass undergraduate majors. Our departmental culture values multidisciplinary, collaborative research and teaching that lead to creative solutions to the most urgent societal problems. We exploit our strengths in the core disciplines of chemistry to expand the interfaces with sustainability, biotechnology and materials science. We also have a growing emphasis on the use of data science and automation to accelerate discovery, with the Department playing a key role in the development of the University’s $40M Cloud Lab for automated science (https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2021/august/first-academic-cloud-lab.html).
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