University of California, Santa Barbara

College of Engineering

Alan and Ruth Heeger Chair in Interdisciplinary Science

The UC Santa Barbara College of Engineering and Division of Mathematical, Life and Physical Sciences are now accepting applications and nominations for the chairholder of the Alan and Ruth Heeger Chair in Interdisciplinary Science. Candidates for the endowed chair must hold a Ph.D. in a science or engineering field, and be engaged in research at the interface of such disciplines as Physics, Chemistry, Materials Science, Systems Biology, Computational and Information Science and Technology, and/or Nanotechnology, as well as other interdisciplinary areas of science or engineering.

The holder of the Heeger Chair may be appointed at a senior, tenured level, either in the College of Engineering or in the Division of Mathematical, Life, and Physical Sciences, at UC Santa Barbara, one of the most rapidly ascending major research universities as recognized by the award of five Nobel Prizes to our faculty in the last eight years. For more details, please see:

http://www.engineering.ucsb.edu/positions

Please send CV, a statement of research and teaching interests, and a recently published paper to Heeger-Chair@engineering.ucsb.edu. Applications will be shared with appropriate campus departments in the sciences and engineering fields. Apply by March 31, 2008 for primary consideration.

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