The University of Michigan is offering 5 tenure track (full academic year hard money posts) to network scientists. The advertisement for the position offered in the Department of Epidemiology is found at http://www.sph.umich.edu/epid/events_honors/network_epidemiologist.html and reproduced below. The person hired by epidemiology will have as close colleagues other network scientists in the hire, the network epidemiologists already in the department such as Erik Volz, Rafael Meza, and Jim Koopman, and the numerous outstanding network scientists at the Center for Complex Systems such as Mark Newman, Mercedes Pascual, Aaron King, Pejman Rohani, and many others. The University of Michigan receives more research grant funding ($1.25 billion per year) than any other US University. It has an extremely strong administrative structure that supports cross disciplinary efforts and helps people get grants. It is family friendly and strongly dedicated to strengthening its excellence by promoting diversity. --------------------
The department of epidemiology at the University of Michigan is seeking to hire a network scientist who focuses on epidemiology as one of five tenure-track faculty positions available in a cluster focusing on biological networks at multiple levels of organization, from molecules and genes to individuals in social systems to entire ecosystems or health systems. Positions are likely to be at the assistant professor level, although exceptional candidates at higher ranks will be considered. We are searching for individuals with interdisciplinary interests who develop and/or use theoretical, computational, statistical, experimental, or observational approaches to understand how the structure, evolution, and dynamics of networks relate to their function, robustness, and control. The research focus of applicants may be in any area relevant to epidemiology including social epidemiology, infectious disease epidemiology, genetic epidemiology, complex chronic diseases, environmental epidemiology, microbial ecology epidemiology, or health systems epidemiology. Preference will be given to candidates who demonstrate an ability to engage and collaborate with epidemiologists who previously have not analyzed dynamic systems or networks. Other units participating in this cluster hire are: 1) Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; 2) Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology; 3) Biophysics; and 4) the Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics. The position carries the possibility of an affiliation with the Center for the Study of Complex Systems (CSCS). Applications are not through the department of Epidemiology but rather through a joint coordinating committee at www.lsa.umich.edu/eeb/apply/networksearch. Applicants should arrange to have three letters of recommendation submitted through the same website. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. The University is supportive of the needs of dual career couples. The University of Michigan is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Rick Riolo [email protected] Center for the Study of Complex Systems (CSCS) 321a West Hall University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI 48109-1107 Phone: 734 763 3323 Fax: 734 763 9267 http://cscs.umich.edu/~rlr -- -- Steven M. Manson Department of Geography University of Minnesota 414 Social Sciences 267 19th Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA 612 625 4577 612 624 1044 (fax) Home page: umn.edu/~manson Human-Environment GIS Lab: hegis.umn.edu
