As part of Duke University's new Energy Initiative, the Division of
Earth and Ocean Sciences in the Nicholas School of the Environment
invites applicants for a tenure-track faculty position at the associate
or full professor level in the field of Energy & Environment. The
candidate should have a strong science or engineering background, an
understanding of energy issues beyond his/her area of technical
training, and the ability and interest to interact with colleagues from
a wide spectrum of fields on interdisciplinary energy problems. We are
particularly interested in candidates who have expertise in energy
systems, i.e. the integrative use of energy by humans, including energy
resources, power generation and distribution, energy technologies, and
the connection between energy use and climate change. The candidate’s
work will ideally reflect a long temporal (decadal and greater) and
large spatial (regional to global) scale perspective on energy systems.
The successful candidate will assume Directorship of the Nicholas
School’s Energy & Environment Program, which encompasses leadership of
the Energy & Environment Concentration in the School’s Professional
Masters of Environmental Management Program, and leadership roles in
Duke University’s Undergraduate Certificate in Energy & Environment and
in the University’s Gendell Center for Engineering, Energy &
Environment, the latter two of which are jointly administered by the
Nicholas School and Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering. The successful
candidate will also join the Faculty Advisory Council of Duke’s new
Energy Initiative. This Council consists of energy experts from across
the University and is responsible for developing, coordinating, and
promoting a shared set of energy courses and programs, and energy
faculty hiring at Duke. More on the Initiative can be found at
http://energy.duke.edu/
The Nicholas School focuses on leadership in education, research, and
service to understand basic earth and environmental processes, to
understand human behavior related to the environment, and to inform
society about the conservation and management of the environment and its
natural resources. Research interests within Earth and Ocean Sciences
and the Nicholas School that will complement this position include
climate dynamics, water resources, land-use change, and environmental
science and policy. Additional interactions with respect to energy are
possible with the Pratt School of Engineering, Trinity College of Arts &
Sciences, the Fuqua School of Business, the Sanford School of Public
Policy, the Law School, and the Nicholas Institute of Environmental
Policy Solutions.
Letters of interest should include a curriculum vita, a statement
describing the candidate’s research interests and goals as they relate
to energy systems, and names of three references. All materials should
be sent electronically as a single PDF file to Mrs. Mary Anne Perez at
[email protected].
The search committee will begin to review applications on January 15,
2012, with an anticipated start date of September 1, 2012.
Duke University is an Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer.
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