Employment Opportunities: Academic


The Physics Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology invites applications for the faculty positions described below.  Faculty members at MIT conduct research, teach undergraduate and graduate physics courses and supervise graduate and undergraduate participation in research. Candidates must show promise in teaching as well as in research. Preference will be given to applicants at the Assistant Professor level.

Applicants must submit a curriculum vitae, a list of publications, and a brief description of research interests and goals.  Applicants must arrange for three letters of reference to be sent directly to the appropriate search committee chair by the search deadline.

ASTROPHYSICS
Applications are sought from individuals working in any area of astrophysics including: optical/IR astronomy, radio astronomy, high-energy astrophysics, cosmology, gravitational, and theoretical astrophysics. Current astrophysics faculty are active in optical, radio, X-ray, and gravitational wave astronomy; in broad areas of theoretical astrophysics and cosmology; in the understanding of dark matter and dark energy; in studies of exoplanets and brown dwarfs; and in space plasma physics. MIT hosts the Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, whose faculty and research staff contribute instrumentation for and conduct research using several facilities including the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, the Murchison Widefield Array, the Magellan telescopes in Chile, and LIGO. More senior appointments will be considered only in exceptional cases. Applicants should submit the above mentioned materials by regular mail to: Professor Deepto Chakrabarty, Department of Physics, MIT, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Building 37-626A, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139. The application deadline is December 1, 2008. In addition, all applicants must submit an applicant information form available at the following link:
http://web.mit.edu/physics/fyi/facsearch-astro.html .

The strict deadline for completed applications is December 1, 2008.

BIOPHYSICS
The Physics Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology invites applications for an Assistant Professor position in the field of Biological Physics and Quantitative Biology. A position in experimental, theoretical and computational biophysics will be considered. Applicants must submit a curriculum vitae, a list of publications, and a brief description of research interests and goals. Applicants must arrange for three letters of reference to be sent directly to: Professor Mehran Kardar, Department of Physics, MIT, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Building 6C-315, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139. The application deadline is December 1, 2008.  In addition, all applicants must submit an applicant information form available at the following link: http://web.mit.edu/physics/fyi/facsearch-cmt.html .

NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE THEORY
The Physics Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is seeking to make junior faculty appointments in high-energy/nuclear theory.  Candidates will be considered who are doing research at energy scales from QCD through the standard model to the Planck scale, including those working at the interfaces with cosmology and astrophysics and those working on physics relevant for the LHC. Candidates will be evaluated on the basis of potential contribution to both the research programs carried out in the Center for Theoretical Physics, and to the undergraduate and graduate teaching programs of the Department of Physics.  Current faculty in the Center for Theoretical Physics span a broad range of interests, including QCD, electroweak physics, unification, cosmology, and string theory.  Applicants should submit the above-mentioned materials to Prof. Krishna Rajagopal, Department of Physics, MIT, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Building 6-311, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139.  The application deadline is November 10, 2008. In addition, all applicants must submit an applicant information form available at the following link: http://web.mit.edu/physics/fyi/facsearch-nucpat.html .

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Women and Minority Candidates are Strongly Encouraged to Apply

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