The Department of Physics at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) invites outstanding applicants for a new tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professor position starting August 2011. We seek a broadly trained physicist who has the potential to establish a highly visible undergraduate research program and will collaboratively contribute to interdisciplinary curricular and scholarly efforts within the School of Science and at the College. This search is focused on candidates whose research interests are in experimental condensed matter or biomedical physics, but outstanding candidates in other experimental areas will also be considered. The successful candidate will teach upper-level physics courses as well as introductory-level, calculus-based physics and labs. An earned doctorate in physics or a closely-related field is required and post-doctoral experience is strongly preferred.
Teaching and research are mutually supportive activities at TCNJ. Candidates should be strongly committed to the teacher-scholar model in a primarily undergraduate, residential institution and to maintaining both high quality teaching and an active and productive research program involving highly motivated undergraduates. Faculty members also serve as academic advisors and have service responsibilities within the College. A research laboratory and start-up funds will be provided. The Physics Department, which currently has eight full-time tenure-line faculty members and approximately 80 majors, is housed in a modern science complex (opened Fall 2002) that offers state-of-the-art teaching and research facilities and instrumentation. For more information about the department, visit: http://www.tcnj.edu/~physics/.
Applicants should e-mail a letter of application, a curriculum vitae, a statement of teaching philosophy (no longer than three pages), and a description of research interests and goals (no longer than three pages) in a single PDF file to physics@tcnj.edu. Applicants should also e-mail unofficial transcripts (graduate and undergraduate) and representative reprints of published research papers (no more than three, and preferably as PDFs), as well as arrange for three current letters of recommendation to be e-mailed. All e-mails should have the applicant’s name in the subject line. Any materials sent as hard copy in postal mail should be addressed to: Search Committee, Department of Physics, The College of New Jersey, P.O. Box 7718, Ewing, NJ 08628. Applications are due by November 8, 2010. Late submissions will be considered if a suitable candidate pool is not identified by the deadline. The College of New Jersey is an Affirmative Action /Equal Opportunity Employer.
