Jobs

The CGCS shares job listings with our sister organizations, The Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change and with The MIT Climate Modeling Initiative.

Current open positions include:

  • PROFESSOR of Climate

    Position Description

    The MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences announces a major expansion of its activities in climate science and seeks applicants for up to three faculty positions in Climate-related fields. Preference will be given to junior appointments at the assistant professor level, but a senior appointment can be considered for an individual with exceptional qualifications. Areas of specific interest include observations, models and theory of the atmosphere, ocean and cryosphere, and climates, biogeochemical cycles and ecology.

    Requirements

    The successful candidates will have to have a strong record of accomplishment in their discipline, a strong commitment to teaching and student advising, a keen interest in relating their work to complementary research in the Department and in the MIT/Woods Hold Joint Program in Oceanography. Joint appointments with other MIT departments are also potentially negotiable where appropriate.

    More information about this position can be obtained by writing Professor Kerry A. Emanuel at emanuel@MIT.EDU.

    A completed application will include a curriculum vitae, a statement of research and teaching objectives, and the names of 5 potential references. Applications are being accepted at Academic Jobs Online [Position ID #1122: MIT-EAPS-CLIMATE2011]. Please do not ask your referees to upload letters at the time of application; letters will be requested directly by MIT. To receive consideration, a completed application must be received.

    Search Contact: Mr. Michael Richard, HR Administrator, EAPS, 54-926, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139; E-mail: mjr@mit.edu, Phone: 617-253-5184; Fax: 617-253-8298. (Search ongoing as of 3/2012.)