Assistant or Associate Professor, National Center for Integrated Coastal Research

The Opportunity

The University of Central Florida’s National Center for Integrated Coastal Research (UCF Coastal) (https://www.ucf.edu/research/sustainable-coastal-systems/) seeks to recruit two 9-month faculty members in Sustainable Coastal Systems, beginning Fall 2026. We anticipate hiring one Assistant Professor (tenure earning) and one Associate Professor (tenured). These interdisciplinary positions are designed to have tenure homes either in the College of Engineering and Computer Science (https://www.cecs.ucf.edu/), the College of Sciences (https://sciences.ucf.edu/), or the Rosen College of Hospitality Management (https://hospitality.ucf.edu/), depending on their academic background and discipline, reflecting UCF Coastal’s cross-college structure. UCF Coastal, which grew out of the Sustainable Coastal Systems cluster initiative (https://www.ucf.edu/research/sustainable-coastal-systems/), unites faculty across disciplines to link ecological security with economic resilience and sustainability. The Center brings together researchers in anthropology (https://sciences.ucf.edu/anthropology/), biology (https://sciences.ucf.edu/biology/), chemistry (https://sciences.ucf.edu/chemistry/), communication (https://communication.ucf.edu/), economics (https://business.ucf.edu/departments-schools/economics/), engineering (https://www.cecs.ucf.edu/), planning (https://ccie.ucf.edu/public-administration/), emergency management (https://www.ucf.edu/degree/emergency-management-and-homeland-security-certificate/), sociology (https://sciences.ucf.edu/sociology/), and beyond to advance transdisciplinary solutions for coastal resilience.

Applicants should be active research leaders focused on interdisciplinary work in coastal-linked fields, such as anthropology/archaeology (https://sciences.ucf.edu/anthropology/), biology (https://sciences.ucf.edu/biology/), chemistry (https://sciences.ucf.edu/chemistry/), communication (https://communication.ucf.edu/), engineering (https://www.cecs.ucf.edu/), physics (https://sciences.ucf.edu/physics/), modeling, political science (https://sciences.ucf.edu/politics/), sociology (https://sciences.ucf.edu/sociology/), or other complementary disciplines. They will be joining a vibrant cluster of current faculty representing ten departments across six colleges.

These new faculty will lead world-class efforts to integrate and translate physical, chemical, biological, and socioeconomic dimensions of coastal systems, including ecosystem health, restoration, resilience, sustainability, and adaptation. Th