31 assistant professor jobs found in Cambridge, MA

Position Description     The Department of Astronomy seeks to appoint a tenure-track professor in any subfield of Astronomy and Astrophysics. The appointment is expected to begin in July 2023. The person hired will join theDepartment of Astronomy and the Harvard College Observatory as part of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard &Smithsonian. The tenure-track professor will be responsible for teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels, forconducting a vibrant and collaborative research program, for the advising and mentorship of junior scientists, and for contributing broadly to the scientific atmosphere of our department and the CfA. The department views inclusivenessand excellence as interconnected in the work of its faculty, and we therefore seek candidates who are committed tobuilding a diverse and inclusive educational and research environment. Basic Qualifications     Doctorate or terminal degree in Astronomy, Physics, or related discipline...

Position Description     The Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School (http://dbmi.hms.harvard.edu) invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor. Founded in 2015, the Department consists of 16 core faculty members working in diverse areas of biomedical informatics and offers unparalleled opportunities for collaborative research with investigators in basic science departments at Harvard as well as with clinicians at Harvard-affiliated hospitals. The Department is interested in candidates engaged in bioinformatics and computational genomics research. As analysis of genomic and other high-throughput data has become an essential component of modern biology, we seek candidates who are interested in developing new modeling approaches and computational techniques for such analysis and applying them to important problems in basic biology and medicine. Areas of interest include functional genomics,...

Position Description     The Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School is seeking to fill a tenure-track assistant professor position at the multidisciplinary intersection of artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning(ML) and clinical decision making. Qualified candidates would be joining a growing department with several leaders in clinical AI, bioinformatics and population health (see https://dbmi.hms.harvard.edu/faculty). DBMI faculty lead or participate in multiple multidisciplinary research and teaching efforts such as the Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics program, the Division of Health Sciences and Technology of Harvard and MIT (https://meded.hms.harvard.edu/health-sciences-technology), the Data Science Initiative of Harvard University (https://datascience.harvard.edu/) and the Harvard Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence (https://www.harvard.edu/kempner-institute/). Basic Qualifications  ...

Position Description     The Department of Immunology at Harvard Medical School invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor. We seek candidates performing creative basic and/or translational research in any area of innate or adaptive immunology.    Our department faculty have diverse backgrounds and interests in understanding basic mechanisms of immunity and their roles in health and disease. Areas of research include autoimmunity and tolerance, cancer immunology, infection and immunity, mucosal immunology, neuroimmunology, and systems immunology.    We offer a supportive and inclusive community. Our vibrant research environment is highly interactive, and we encourage and foster collaboration, entrepreneurship, and innovation. We are committed to the success of our faculty, and we provide engaged mentoring and significant resources, including a highly competitive start-up package, substantial administrative and...

Title Instructor/Assistant Professor, Prosthodontics School Harvard School of Dental Medicine Department/Area Prosthodontics Position Description The Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM) is an intellectually vibrant, collaborative, and global life sciences community. As a world leader in higher education, HSDM draws top scholars/scientists, clinicians, professionals, and students from around the world to support a unified mission of fostering a community of diverse leaders in education, research, and clinical innovation dedicated to improving oral and systemic human health. Located in the heart of Boston’s Longwood Medical Area, the Harvard School of Dental Medicine ranks as one of the preeminent dental schools in the country. Established in 1867, HSDM was the first dental school in the United States to be connected with a university and coordinated with its medical school. HSDM is the only school...

Title Instructor/Assistant Professor, Prosthodontics School Harvard School of Dental Medicine Department/Area Prosthodontics Position Description The Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM) is an intellectually vibrant, collaborative, and global life sciences community. As a world leader in higher education, HSDM draws top scholars/scientists, clinicians, professionals, and students from around the world to support a unified mission of fostering a community of diverse leaders in education, research, and clinical innovation dedicated to improving oral and systemic human health. Located in the heart of Boston’s Longwood Medical Area, the Harvard School of Dental Medicine ranks as one of the preeminent dental schools in the country. Established in 1867, HSDM was the first dental school in the United States to be connected with a university and coordinated with its medical school. HSDM is the only...

Position Description     Landscape Architecture as a field is critically engaged in a re-examination of the role of materials and materiality in landscape design. The Department of Landscape Architecture seeks to appoint a distinguished scholar/practitioner in design at the assistant/associate professor (tenure track) or full professor (tenured) level of landscape architecture with a focus on materials and material ecologies and design, including innovative approaches to working at the intersection of living systems with non-living materials. We invite candidates who explore how material research drives sustainable and resilient design pursuits, while simultaneously developing practices that advance contemporary debates on material culture in landscape architecture at all scales. Successful candidates will have developed a research trajectory in material expression, material flows and their associated labor pathways, technologies of fabrication and assembly, and design...

Position Description     The urgency for Landscape Architecture to investigate and consider larger scales of territory, both nationally and globally, has never been more important. The Department of Landscape Architecture seeks a distinguished scholar and/or practitioner at the assistant/associate professor (tenure track) or full professor (tenured) level in landscape architecture design and planning. The search is open to candidates who pursue a wide variety of landscape architectural subjects, such as territorial systems and their organization, rural landscapes, and their technologies (large-scale forestry, urban forestry, agronomy, engineering, energy), infrastructure, conservation, and stewardship. The most current expertise in climate adaptation and climate risk and resilience is stressed. We seek individuals who have the capacity for cross-disciplinary research and practice who will contribute to reshaping contemporary debates on environment, society, land...

School Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Department/Area Biostatistics Position Description The Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health seeks candidates to fill a tenure-track faculty position at the assistant or associate professor level. We seek candidates with backgrounds in quantitative health science research in areas such as biostatistical theory and methods and/or machine learning and data science, with demonstrated expertise in the development of new methods as well as a record of collaborative research. Candidates with a broad range of research interests are welcome and encouraged to apply; particular attention will be paid to applicants whose areas of interest include methodological work in statistical and population genetics and/or causal inference. Responsibilities will include methodological and collaborative research, and teaching and supervision of graduate students.  The Department of...

Position Description     The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) seeks to appoint a candidate as an assistant or associate professor (tenure track) in urban design. Candidates must exhibit excellence in scholarship and/or the application of design skills to the city and the built environment and will be expected to teach in the core urban design curriculum. Located in the GSD’s Department of Urban Planning and Design, the Urban Design Program leverages innovative connections between design, planning, and real estate study and practice and provides a potential locus for collaborative activities across Harvard University’s graduate degree programs. To best engage contemporary urban challenges in the United States and across the globe, this position is part of a cluster of hires currently being undertaken by the Department of Urban Planning and Design. Information about the GSD and Department of Urban Planning and Design: In the pursuit of more...

Title Assistant/Associate Professor of Biostatistics School Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Department/Area Biostatistics Position Description The Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health seeks candidates to fill a tenure-track faculty position at the assistant or associate professor level. We seek candidates with backgrounds in quantitative health science research in areas such as biostatistical theory and methods and/or machine learning and data science, with demonstrated expertise in the development of new methods as well as a record of collaborative research. Candidates with a broad range of research interests are welcome and encouraged to apply; particular attention will be paid to applicants whose areas of interest include methodological work in statistical and population genetics and/or causal inference. Responsibilities will include methodological and collaborative research,...

Title Assistant/Associate Professor, Division Head Prosthodontics/Program Director, AGE Prosthodontics School Harvard School of Dental Medicine Department/Area Prosthodontics Position Description The Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM) is an intellectually vibrant, collaborative, and global life sciences community. As a world leader in higher education, HSDM draws top scholars/scientists, clinicians, professionals, and students from around the world to support a unified mission of fostering a community of diverse leaders in education, research, and clinical innovation dedicated to improving oral and systemic human health. Located in the heart of Boston’s Longwood Medical Area, the Harvard School of Dental Medicine ranks as one of the preeminent dental schools in the country. Established in 1867, HSDM was the first dental school in the United States to be connected with a university and coordinated with...

Position Description     The Department of Human Evolutionary Biology is conducting a search for a tenure-track professor in the area of human diversity. We welcome applications that focus on understanding the nature and origins of human variation in all its forms including genetic, anatomical, physiological, behavioral, and cultural. Candidate’s research should address human diversity and variation from an evolutionary perspective and can be approached using laboratory methodologies (including on model organisms), theoretical approaches, fieldwork, computational analyses, or other methodologies. The appointment is expected to begin at the level of Assistant Professor and to start on July 1, 2023. The appointee will teach and advise at the undergraduate and graduate levels. As a department and university, we value diversity among our faculty, and we invite applications from candidates who will help us foster an inclusive educational environment. We especially...

Position Description     The Office of Dental Education (ODE) oversees all educational programs within the School, including predoctoral education, advanced graduate education, and continuing education. The Office provides opportunities for learning, leadership development, and research by providing a high level of support and service. ODE also coordinates orientation, commencement, and a wide range of activities related to student life. The members of the Office of Dental Education are committed to supporting and assisting students as they progress through their programs at HSDM. The Harvard School of Dental Medicine is seeking qualified applicants for the position of Society Director in the School’s innovative DMD curriculum. This is a full-time faculty appointment at the academic rank of Assistant Professor or Associate Professor in the appropriate academic department based on successful candidate’s area of expertise. Academic rank and salary will be...

The Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM) is an intellectually vibrant, collaborative, and global life sciences community. As a world leader in higher education, HSDM draws top scholars/scientists, clinicians, professionals, and students from around the world to support a unified mission of fostering a community of diverse leaders in education, research, and clinical innovation dedicated to improving oral and systemic human health. Located in the heart of Boston’s Longwood Medical Area, the Harvard School of Dental Medicine ranks as one of the preeminent dental schools in the country. Established in 1867, HSDM was the first dental school in the United States to be connected with a university and coordinated with its medical school. HSDM is the only school within Harvard University that has its own clinical facility and provides direct patient care. The goal of HSDM is to continue setting a standard of excellence in the provision of oral health care and defining the...

Position Description     The Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health seeks to recruit a faculty member in the field of mindfulness and public health. This is an open rank search for a tenure-ladder position, with the academic rank to be determined in accordance with the successful candidate’s experience and productivity. The department and the school are committed to mentoring early career investigators. We are dedicated to upholding the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion in our hiring and promotion processes, and hope to hire someone who can help promote these values through research, teaching, and mentoring across culturally diverse backgrounds. Situated within a vibrant school of public health, the Nutrition Department has an exceptional and diverse portfolio of research in public health nutrition and nutrition epidemiology and trains doctoral and postdoctoral students in each of these areas. The faculty are actively...

School Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Department/Area Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences Position Description Natalie Slopen, ScD in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health invites applications for a postdoctoral fellow to work on projects related to childhood experiences and cardiometabolic health in young adulthood. The postdoctoral fellow will primarily work with the Bucharest Early Intervention Project (BEIP), a study examining the long-term effects of foster care as an alternative to institutional care ( https://www.bucharestearlyinterventionproject.org/ ). The position will be through Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and the following will receive additional mentorship from other BEIP  investigators based at other institutions. This position can begin at the start of the 2023 academic year, or immediately,...

Title Assistant/Associate Professor of Architectural Design School Harvard Graduate School of Design Department/Area Architecture Position Description Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design aspires to provide education and scholarship of the highest quality—to advance the frontiers of design knowledge, to educate leaders in design, research, and scholarship, to make a resilient, just, and beautiful world. The Department of Architecture invites applications for two full-time, tenure track positions at the rank of Assistant/Associate Professor. While the department’s priority is filling tenure track positions, we will also consider part-time Assistant/Associate Professorships in Practice of Architecture positions. The successful candidate or candidates will demonstrate expertise in design, playing an active role in design pedagogy of the core studio curriculum. In addition, the candidate(s) will have...

Position Description     A junior faculty position is available for highly qualified individuals to offer graduate-level instruction in environmental history. Housed in the Department of Landscape Architecture, this is planned as a full-time tenure track position. Candidates should be researchers and effective teachers who have demonstrated an innovative approach to objects, concepts, and protagonists (human and non-human) of mutual interest and concern to environmental history and the history of the “natural” and built landscape. No region or time period has been specified, leaving the field open to the ancient triad of airs, waters, and places (and their respective inhabitants). In their scholarship, candidates are expected to define the interpretive value of environmental history with respect to past and future possibilities of landscape architecture, notably including but not limited to its status as a design discipline. Teaching responsibilities...

Title Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in Behavioral Economics (Prof Shleifer) School Faculty of Arts and Sciences Department/Area   Position Description Professor Andrei Shleifer is looking to hire a full-time pre-doctoral fellow for the academic year 2023-2024. The pre-doc will be based at Harvard and will closely collaborate on all aspects of research in behavioral economics, including data analysis, surveys, and experiments. The ideal candidate will have the following background, skills, and experiences: A background in economics or applied math Coding experience in Python, R, Stata or other languages, ideally including experience with NLP or other aspects of ML Interest in behavioral economics Strong project management and communication skills in spoken and written English Prior experience as research assistant, ideally as a full time research assistant The position is ideally suited...