Assistant Professor - Cleveland, United States - Case Western Reserve University
Description
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) - Department of Biology
The Department of Biology at Case Western Reserve University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level to develop an independent research program in the area of neuroethology.
The successful candidate is expected to develop an outstanding independent research program, and to develop and teach courses at the undergraduate and graduate level in neurobiology.
The normal teaching load is one course per semester, and creation of new courses is encouraged.Qualifications
We are particularly interested in an individual whose focus is on the neural and biomechanical mechanisms of behavior, who is working in preparations that are tractable to detailed circuit analysis (invertebrate organisms preferred), and who is using genetic tools or other novel techniques to monitor and manipulate behavior through the activity of individual neurons or neural circuits.
The successful candidate will be joining a department that has strong research programs in the neural, biomechanical, and modulatory mechanisms of invertebrate behavior, and has strong ties to interdisciplinary collaborators (e.g., multiple biorobotics laboratories in the CWRU School of Engineering; computational neuroscience in the Department of Mathematics; and developmental and molecular neurobiology in the Department of Neurosciences in the CWRU School of Medicine).
The successful candidate's research, teaching, and mentoring will contribute to a new major in neuroscience, which is a joint venture with the Department of Neurosciences in the School of Medicine, and includes contributions from faculty in the Departments of Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Philosophy.