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Please send job openings to the secretariat. Your ad will be posted in about 2 weeks for our visitors. Also, the Environmental Economics program at Michigan State University maintains a web page with an extensive set of career links for environmental and ecological economists.

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APPLIED MATHEMATICS IN LIFE AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

Job Vacancy Announcement
Two Assistant or Associate Professors

Arizona State University's Complex Adaptive Systems Initiative (CASI) invites applications for two tenure-track or tenured positions at the rank of assistant or associate professor. The successful candidate will have a tenure-track or tenured appointment in the academic unit most suitable in view of his/her background, skills and interests, and may fulfill all or part of his/her teaching duties as part of the Applied Mathematics in the Life and Social Sciences (AMLSS) degree programs depending on experience and expertise.

CASI is a new, university-wide initiative at ASU to further research and teaching in this new and exciting domain. The successful candidates would also participate in the Mathematical, Computational and Modeling Sciences Center, which includes faculty members from disciplinary and interdisciplinary programs connected to applied mathematics. Information about this center can be found at www.mcmsc.asu.edu. Faculty members involved in these new initiatives have a strong commitment to education through research and an equally strong commitment to student diversity. Current research strengths include anthropology, bio-economics and environmental economics, ecology, epidemiology, ecology of infectious diseases, immunology, neurobiology, public health, and sustainability. They collaborate extensively inside and outside the university in the social sciences, mathematics and science education, biological sciences, medicine, and environmental sciences.

We are particularly interested in candidates who are able to engage in research that crosses traditional academic boundaries while addressing scientific challenges whose answers are tied in to the study of complex processes over multiple levels of organization and several temporal and spatial scales. The areas of application include, but are not limited to, computational epidemiology, computational ecology or computational social sciences.

Minimum qualifications include a Ph.D. in the computational, mathematical or statistical sciences with a research emphasis in the application of the mathematical sciences in the life and/or social sciences by August 2010, and familiarity with the tools of the complex adaptive systems and/or network approaches. Successful candidates will be expected to conduct research and publish in an area appropriate to their expertise, including complex adaptive systems, computational and theoretical ecology and epidemiology, social networks and social dynamics. Successful candidates will provide quality teaching of undergraduate and graduate courses in the new applied mathematics in the life and social sciences degrees. They will also mentor undergraduate and graduate students involved in trans-disciplinary research, participate in oncampus interdisciplinary activities and carry out appropriate professional service.

Candidates should have demonstrated computational and modeling skills in the context of interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary research. Candidates at the assistant professor level must also have demonstrated potential for excellence in research and teaching at all levels. Candidates at the tenured associate professor
level must have demonstrated excellence in research and teaching at all levels, and should have experience advising graduate students with diverse backgrounds and interests. All candidates must have experience in mentoring undergraduate students.

All application materials must be submitted online at http://mathjobs.org and include:

  1. A curriculum vitae;
  2. A personal statement addressing the candidate's research agenda;
  3. A statement of teaching philosophy and commitment to broaden articipation in the mathematical sciences;
  4. A completed AMS Standard Cover Sheet;
  5. At least four letters of recommendation, including one that addresses teaching.

Review of applications will begin on February 15, 2010 and will continue weekly until the searches are closed.

The Tempe campus of Arizona State University enrolls more than 55,000 students. It is located in the rapidly growing metropolitan Phoenix area, which provides a wide variety of recreational and cultural opportunities. In addition to the Center's excellent computing resources, which include individual faculty workstations, our faculty members have access to the University's extensive computing facilities and the Fulton High Performance Computing Initiative. A background check is required for employment. Arizona State University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to excellence through diversity. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. See https://www.asu.edu/titleIX/.

Associate/Assistant Professor, Environmental and Resource Economics Department of Economics

Position Summary
The Department of Economics at Portland State University invites applications for a tenure track associate or assistant professor position, which begins September 2010. We are conducting a search in any area of environmental and natural resource economics, though expertise in renewable energy and energy efficiency would be especially welcome.

Responsibilities
  • Teaching load includes courses in candidates’ areas of specialization at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
  • Assist with curriculum development
  • Advise graduate and undergraduate students
  • Conduct academic research for publication.
  • Present and discuss research at scholarly meetings
  • Contribute fully to departmental, college and university service. This includes, but is not limited to attending monthly faculty meetings, participating in departmental social events, seminars, community outreach activities and serving on or leading departmental, college or university committees.
  • Contribute fully to the intellectual environment of the Department of Economics
  • Candidates must have completed all requirements for the Ph.D. prior to September 2010.
  • Qualifications for appointment include a distinguished Ph.D. record, evidence of commitment to research, teaching and creating community partnerships, capability to secure extramural research support and interest in policy issues.
  • Active research agenda in environmental and resource economics
  • Candidates are expected to display exceptional ability to teach a diverse student body at an urban university.

Compensation
The starting annual salary rate for this position will be between $85,000 to $90,000 with an excellent benefits package that in 2008/2009 includes fully paid healthcare, retirement package and reduced tuition rates for employee, spouse or one dependant at any of the Oregon University System schools.

To Apply
Applicants should send a curriculum vita, minimum three letters of professional recommendation, papers, publications and evidence of high-caliber teaching by post to Environmental Economics Search Chair, Department of Economics, Portland State University, P.O. Box 751, Portland, OR 97207-0751 or electronically to environmental_econ@pdx.edu. Applications received by November 30, 2009 are guaranteed full consideration, but will be accepted until the position is filled. Questions can also be directed to environmental_econ@pdx.edu. Interviews to be conducted at 2010 ASSA meetings in Atlanta, Georgia.

Portland State University is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Institution and, in keeping with the President's diversity initiative, welcomes applications from diverse candidates and candidates who support diversity.

  
To promote understanding between economists and ecologists in the development of a sustainable world.