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Infrastructure Equity Faculty Cluster Hire – Assistant or Associate Professor of Earth System Science

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The Department of Earth System Science (ESS) within the School of Physical Sciences at The University of California, Irvine, is seeking candidates for an Assistant Professor (tenure track) or Associate Professor (tenured) position as part of UCI’s Black Thriving Initiative (BTI) Infrastructure Equity cluster hiring program.

The department seeks a faculty member with a clear vision to expand scientific knowledge that can facilitate equitable mitigation/adaptation measures, address environmental injustice, and increase resilience within low income communities and communities of color. Their research should be directed at quantitative understanding of human-driven environmental challenges over local to global scales and the disproportionate impacts they may have on historically marginalized communities.

The successful candidate will have a strong track record of research in Earth system science, climate science, geoscience, environmental science, human-dimensions of global change, and/or related STEM fields. Read more about the position here.

This position is part of a campus-wide Infrastructure Equity faculty cluster hiring program, which amplifies UCI’s Black Thriving Initiative by recruiting engaged scholars across the fields of planning, policy, engineering, environmental science, and law to address social, environmental, and racial disparities in infrastructure planning, design, and implementation. For more information, consult the cluster website.To ensure full consideration, complete applications must be received by January 2, 2024. Please direct questions to the chair of the search committee, Professor Kathleen Johnson at [email protected].

Basic qualifications (required at time of application): PhD in Earth system science, climate science, environmental science, human-dimensions of global change, and/or related STEM fields

Apply here.
Open date: October 31, 2023Next review date: Tuesday, Jan 2, 2024 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee.

Final date: Wednesday, Jan 31, 2024 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but those received after the review date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled.

Job location: Irvine, CA