Faculty Position in Evolutionary Biology

University of Minnesota--Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior--
The Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior invites applications for a position in any area of evolutionary biology. The department will consider applicants at both the tenure-track assistant and tenured associate professor level, but the assistant professor level will be preferred. The successful candidate will be expected to establish a vigorous, extramurally funded research program, contribute to the educational and teaching mission of the College of Biological Sciences at the undergraduate and graduate level, and to provide academic service within and outside of the university. We seek an innovative and productive scientist whose research complements the active and growing group of evolutionary biologists in several departments and in the Bell Museum of Natural History at the University of Minnesota. A Ph.D. is required and postdoctoral experience is preferred. The Department of EEB is a dynamic, nationally and internationally recognized group of 29 faculty mentoring nearly 100 graduate students and postdocs. Faculty research encompasses ecology, evolution, and behavior with strengths in integrative, interdisciplinary studies. For more information about the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, please visit our web site at http://www.cbs.umn.edu/eeb/. The University of Minnesota is a large, metropolitan institution with excellent opportunities for interdisciplinary research with faculty from the Medical and Veterinary Schools, College of Natural Resources, College of Agriculture, Food and the Environment, Institute of Technology, and the Microbial and Plant Genomics Center.

Review of applications will begin October 1, 2004 with interviews expected to start in mid-November or early December. To apply, send a cover letter, curriculum vitae, statements of research and teaching interests, up to five publications, and arrange to have three letters of recommendation sent to Evolutionary Biology Search, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, 1987 Upper Buford Circle, Rm 100, Ecology Building, St. Paul, MN 55108. Application packages cannot be accepted by email. The University of Minnesota is an Equal Opportunity Educator and Employer.


Claudia Neuhauser
Professor, Head, and Director of Graduate Studies
Ecology, Evolution and Behavior
University of Minnesota
1987 Upper Buford Circle VOICE 612-624-6291
St. Paul, MN 55108 FAX 612-624-6777
http://biosci.cbs.umn.edu/eeb/faculty/NeuhauserClaudia.html