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The UNIVERSITY of WESTERN ONTARIO
Department of Biology and
The Centre for Environment and Sustainability
The Department of Biology and the Centre for Environment and Sustainability (CES) are pleased
to announce a search for a strategic, senior hire in the area of Adaptation to a Changing
Environment. The successful applicant would be appointed at the Full Professor or Associate
Professor level (tenured). The intended starting date is January 1, 2015; however an earlier or
later start is possible.
The successful candidate will be an outstanding and innovative researcher whose
accomplishments have made a major impact in the area of adaptation to a changing environment
and who is recognized as an international leader in the field as evidence by influential
publications in top tier international journals, impact on government policy, giving keynote
presentations at international conferences, holding active membership on advisory boards and
international panels and/or editorship on major journals. The candidate will also have a superior
record of attracting and supervising graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. The successful
candidate will provide leadership in research, promote interdisciplinary scholarship, increase
knowledge mobilization and societal benefits, and facilitate development of research clusters in
areas related to the adaptation of biological organisms to a changing global environment, a major
subtheme of the Sustainability and the Environment research theme at Western.
Western is one of Canada’s top research intensive universities and is home to over 1400 faculty,
with an interdisciplinary cluster studying responses to environmental change at scales ranging
from the organism to the ecosystem. Faculty are supported by state-of-the-art infrastructure for
environmental simulation and analyses at scales that uniquely situate Western to address global
challenges in sustainability and the environment. These facilities include the Biotron
(http://www.thebiotron.ca/), AFAR (http://birds.uwo.ca/AFAR/Welcome.html), ESW
(http://www.uwo.ca/esw/), WINDEE (http://www.eng.uwo.ca/windeee/facilities.html), and the
computational support of Sharcnet (https://www.sharcnet.ca/) and SOSCIP
(http://www.http://soscip.org/). The successful candidate will be expected to utilize this
infrastructure to push the boundaries of experimental climate change research. As an integral part
of the leadership in the area of sustainability and the environment and through involvement with
the CES, the successful candidate will have opportunities for building collaborations with
researchers elsewhere on campus, especially in the Faculties of Engineering and Social Sciences.
The successful applicant would be expected to teach relevant undergraduate and graduate
courses in the programs administered by the Department of Biology and the CES.
The Centre for Environment and Sustainability (http://www.uwo.ca/enviro/) is an
interdisciplinary initiative that involves undergraduate and graduate programs. It also facilitates
and promotes interdisciplinary research, and has affiliated faculty members from over 25
departments.
The Department of Biology (http://www.uwo.ca/biology) is a vibrant community of 47 full-time
faculty and instructors, 30 support staff, approximately 180 graduate students and 16 post-doctoral fellows. Research in the Department of Biology ranges from sub-cellular to ecosystem
processes, using both theoretical and experimental approaches.
Review of applications will commence June 30, 2014, and continue until the position is filled.
A complete application includes a cover letter, a complete curriculum vitae, a two-page research
plan, a one-page teaching philosophy, and contact information for three referees, sent to:
Dr. Bryan Neff
Associate Dean (Research)
Faculty of Science
adrsci@uwo.ca
The University of Western Ontario,
London, Ontario CANADA N6A 5B7
.
Positions are subject to budget approval. Applicants should have fluent written and oral
communication skills in English. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however,
Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. The University of Western Ontario is
committed to employment equity and welcomes applications from all qualified women and men,
including visible minorities, aboriginal people and persons with disabilities.