Position Description
The University of Washington (UW) Department of Biology is seeking a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor in Plant Systematics to also serve as Curator of the Herbarium at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.
Positive factors for consideration include experience with collections-based research, broadly defined as managing collections, curation, working with museum specimens, and/or contributing to educational and outreach in a museum setting. Additional positive factors include experiences and familiarity with collections digitization, mentoring collections-based undergraduate research, involvement with citizen science projects, and public outreach.
The successful candidate will be expected to advocate for the collections.
The successful candidate will be expected to pursue external funding to support collections maintenance, and access and expansion.
The successful candidate will be expected to build community around the Herbarium with audiences ranging from undergraduate students to professional botanists and amateur enthusiasts.
The UW Department of Biology is a large collaborative and integrative department, spanning research areas from molecules to ecosystems. The Department provides a supportive research environment, and we particularly aim to foster a sense of belonging among all of our members at all levels. We seek a new faculty colleague who will actively contribute to and enhance our eclectic community, and who will be committed to supporting the success of trainees at any career level from a broad range of diverse backgrounds.
UW faculty members engage in scholarship, teaching, and service. This is a full time, tenure track, 9-month position and the anticipated starting date is September 16, 2023.
Qualifications
Applicants must have earned a doctorate, or foreign equivalent, in the biological sciences or a related field by the date of appointment.
Must have expertise in the diversity, systematics, phylogenomics, and evolution of plants, broadly defined. This includes studies of the patterns and underlying processes giving rise to plant diversity over time and across space, and broadscale comparative studies that develop or use new methods or analytical tools to understand the evolution of plant form and function, and/or intrinsic and extrinsic factors that affect plant diversification.
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