Opportunities

 View Only

Tenure-track Assistant Professors – "Climate Cluster". University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  • 1.  Tenure-track Assistant Professors – "Climate Cluster". University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Posted 09-13-2023 16:20

    The School of Earth Society and Environment at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign is hiring three (3) new assistant professors as part of a "Climate Cluster".

    The Department of Atmospheric Sciences invites applications for a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor position with expertise in the science of CLIMATE CHANGE AND CLIMATE PROJECTIONS. The ideal candidate would have a focus in either climate dynamics, climate modeling, statistical and dynamical downscaling, climate risk, or climate impacts, with possible additional expertise in data science and machine learning/artificial intelligence.

     

    Full announcement can be found here: https://illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/7181?c=illinois

    Questions about the position may be directed to the chair of the search committee: Prof. Francina Dominguez francina@illinois.edu.  For questions regarding the application process, please contact 217-333-2137.

    The Department of Earth Science & Environmental Change seeks a scholar with expertise in the broad area of CLIMATE-DRIVEN ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS. Possible focus areas include, but are not limited to: natural variability and climate change impacts on the water cycle including extreme events (e.g., floods and droughts); climate-driven impacts on the critical zone (e.g., soil moisture, landslides, coastal erosion, carbon and nitrogen cycles, impacts of wildfire);  cryosphere changes (ice sheet collapse, glacier loss, permafrost melt); sea level rise; paleoclimate perspectives on climate hazards; and natural variability and climate change influences on key climate modes that control natural hazards such as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation.

    Full announcement can be found here: https://illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/7189?c=illinois

    Questions about the position may be directed to the chair of the search committee: Prof. Jessica Conroy jconro@illinois.edu

    Additionally, the The Department of Geography and GIS  is hiring in the area of Climate Justice and/or Environmental Justice.  These positions are part of a hiring cluster on "Climate Impacts, Risk, and Inequality" within the School of Earth, Society and Environment, as well as a campus-wide interdisciplinary supercluster on the theme of "Sustainable, Just, and Resilient Society in the face of Environmental and Societal Change". 

    For more information about the supercluster and links to all the job announcements,  please see:  https://publish.illinois.edu/2023climatecluster/



    ------------------------------
    Francina Dominguez
    University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    ------------------------------