Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) in Neuro Bioengineering

Academic

Job Category

Faculty Bargaining

Job Title

Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) in Neuro Bioengineering

Department

School of Biomedical Engineering | Faculty of Medicine | Provost and VP Academic (Peter Zandstra)

Posting End Date

November 1, 2024

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date.

Job End Date

The expected salary for this position is $135,000 to $145,000 per annum.

The School of Biomedical Engineering at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver campus, in partnership with the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, invites applications for a full-time position at the rank of Assistant Professor (tenure track). This position will have a membership as a Core Member with the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, a UBC Senate-approved centre supported by the UBC Faculty of Medicine.

The School of Biomedical Engineering is a partnership between the Faculties of Medicine and Applied Science, acting as a nucleus for education and training, research, and innovation in biomedical engineering, creating new knowledge, new academic and training programs, and fostering translation and innovation. Its vision is to transform health care outcomes through unconstrained exploration of the best possible integrative solutions across engineering, medicine, and biology. Through collaborative, innovative, and interdisciplinary approaches and building on UBC academic and research excellence, the School of Biomedical Engineering aspires to be a global leader in biomedical engineering research, education and translation. For more information about the School of Biomedical Engineering, please visit https://www.sbme.ubc.ca/.

The Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health brings together experts in the fields of neuroscience, neurology, psychiatry, and rehabilitation in a hub for training, research, and clinical care. The philosophy of the centre is to work with all facets of brain health, as knowledge gained from treating and investigating one disease of the brain will advance our understanding of others. The centre brings research closer to patients, providing British Columbians with better access to the best possible treatments. For more information about the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health https://www.centreforbrainhealth.ca/.

Reporting to the Director of the UBC School of Biomedical Engineering, the successful candidate will lead an independent research program with potential to achieve international recognition for leadership and research excellence in their field, participate in graduate and undergraduate teaching in biomedical engineering and related topics, and provide service within the University and to both the academic and broader community. Research areas of particular interest include: cellular and molecular engineering approaches to neurological disorders; bioengineering neural cell fate control, brain integration or function; engineering cellular or molecular systems that recapitulate neural function; neural or brain organoids and their integration with electro-mechanical systems, neural tissue engineering, artificial intelligence in neuroscience (especially as applied to cellular models of neural function), or related areas. A focus on the development of novel bioengineering or biomedical engineering approaches and technologies to model or modulate the neural-immune axis and applications to diseases such as Multiple sclerosis (MS) and other diseases with a neural-immune axis would be particularly exciting.

The successful candidate will hold a Ph.D. or equivalent, have a strong training background in bioengineering, biomedical engineering, neuro-engineering, neurobiology and engineering, stem cell engineering, and/or related fields, and demonstrated ability in scholarly activity with experience in collaborative and convergent research at the interface of engineering and molecular/cellular neuroscience. The successful candidate will also have demonstrated evidence of success, or potential ability for success, in teaching and the ability to effectively communicate and interact with empathy, understanding and, respect of diverse and divergent perspectives and behaviours. Proposal of an original, innovative research program of high quality and novelty, a collaborative team-based approach to building a successful research program and team, and having potential to attract, develop and retain excellent trainee