Assistant/Associate Professor of Biophysics

About the Role

The Department of Physics at the University of North Texas (UNT) invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor or Associate Professor level, with competitive startup, salary, and benefit packages. The candidate's research should be in the area of Biophysics (experimental).

Responsibilities

• Develop a vigorous and externally funded research program
• Teach effectively at the undergraduate and graduate levels
• Mentor student research
• Provide service to the department, university and community

Minimum Qualifications

• Ph.D. in physics or a closely related discipline
• Demonstrated commitment to teaching
• Minimum of one year of postdoctoral experience, or equivalent professional experience after the Ph.D.
• Must be able to maintain the security and integrity of critical organizational infrastructure related to this role

Preferred Qualifications

• Outstanding experimentalist within the broad area of biophysics who can develop and lead both independent and collaborative research programs
• Areas of research may include medical physics, biomaterials, or biophotonics
• Ideal candidate might bridge and complement the department's state-of-the-art physics-focused research with more direct experience and connections to human health and associated funding sources

Department Research Areas

• UNT Ion Beam Laboratory, with research into how ionizing radiation interacts with biological systems or mappings of elemental distributions in biological samples with proton induced x-ray emission spectroscopy
• Research on boron induced aneutronic reactions for cancer treatment
• Area of biophotons, thought to mediate inter-process physiological communication, with detection potentially opening new directions in oncology

Department Summary

The Department of Physics at the University of North Texas offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees. Faculty and students address fundamental and applied challenges in solid-state physics, photonics, biophysics, atomic and molecular physics, astrophysics, and various other areas. Additional information can be found at: https://physics.unt.edu/. UNT has a highly diverse campus with a wide range of languages spoken in addition to English. We welcome candidates who have experience with HSI/MSIs and/or who speak Spanish, Vietnamese, American Sign Language, Chinese (Cantonese, Mandarin and other variations), Arabic, Tagalog, Farsi, French, or/and Yoruba.

An offer of employment for this position will be made dependent upon available funding.