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PHY-002
- Associate to Full Professor of Biophysics - Physics Department
- Tenure Track
Portland
State University in located in downtown Portland, the major
urban center of Oregon. The University is centered on the
tree-lined South Park Blocks, an extensive greenway through
the center of town, surrounded by numerous cafes, pubs,
and restaurants. PSU's Portland Business Accelerator is
located near the south side of campus, part of an emerging
biotechnology research cluster centered in the new South
Waterfront Development. Adjacent to the University is the
Portland cultural district, home to the Portland Symphony,
the Portland Center for the Performing Arts, the Portland
Art Museum, and the Northwest Film Center. The variety of
outdoor activities convenient to the city is unsurpassed.
Hiking, mountain biking, skiing, windsurfing, sailing, and
kayaking are popular outdoor activities accessible within
minutes of Portland. The rugged Cascade and Coast mountain
ranges provide hundreds of miles of trails.
Position
Summary
Portland
State (physics.pdx.edu) invites applications for a professor
in the Department of Physics to begin September 2008. Candidates
at the associate or full professor level are encouraged
to apply. Qualified applicants will possess an active and
externally-funded research programs in experimental or theoretical
biophysics. The successful applicant will join a growing
department with 12 tenure-track faculty, approximately 30
graduate students (M.S. and Ph.D.) and 60 undergraduate
students. The Department of Physics is in the midst of a
major rebuilding, part of a university-wide commitment to
increase the research capability in the sciences and engineering.
The
research programs in the Physics Department are built around
the broad themes of biological, environmental, and materials
physics (nanotechnology) and we are especially interested
in candidates with established programs at the interface
between Biophysics and Nanotechnology. Further, it is anticipated
that the person filling this position will contribute substantively
to the upper division and graduate level physics curriculum,
and therefore should have research and teaching experience
suitable to this role.
Faculty
are engaged in many collaborative efforts, both in research
and in teaching, with other departments such as Electrical
Engineering, Chemistry, Environmental Science, and Biology.
The university supports a number of interdisciplinary Ph.D.
programs, and new Centers for Electron Microscopy and Nanofabrication,
Genomics, and Life in Extreme Environments have been formed
in the last several years. In addition to interactions within
the university, many collaborations exist with faculty from
the Oregon Health and Sciences University/Oregon Graduate
Institute (OHSU/OGI), and more ambitious formal plans linking
the Portland research institutions are being contemplated.
In
addition the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute
(ONAMI) is a regional source of collaborative opportunities
that connects Oregon's three public research universities
- Oregon State University, Portland State University, and
the University of Oregon, as well as the Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory (Richland, WA), the state of Oregon,
selected researchers from OGI and OHSU, and the world-leading
"Silicon Forest" high technology industry cluster
of Oregon and southwest Washington. PSU is the lead institution
for the nanometrology and nanoelectronics initiative within
ONAMI.
Position
Requirements
Ph.D.
in physics, applied physics or related field and research
expertise in biophysics is required. Possession of active
externally-funded research program is preferred.
To
Apply
Applicants
should submit the following to the search committee: curriculum
vitae, description of ongoing research and future plans
and funding history, and statement of teaching interests.
In addition, applicants should arrange for at least three
reference letters.
Applications
should be submitted to the chair of the search committee,
Professor Jon Abramson
