The Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES) http://imes.mit.edu/ at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Cambridge, Massachusetts, invites applicants to apply for junior tenure-track faculty positions in the area of health sciences to begin July 1, 2025 or on a mutually agreed date thereafter. Established in 2012, IMES is an inclusive community of students, administrative staff, research staff, and faculty who research, work, educate, and learn, at the convergence of engineering, science, and medicine to transform human health for all.
The appointment will be made in partnership with a relevant science or engineering department. The position will have equal academic responsibilities in IMES and the partner department. Applicants should hold an MD or a PhD in a science or engineering field related to health sciences by the beginning of employment. While all research areas are of interest, IMES encourages applications from candidates whose research and teaching interests would be enhanced and accelerated through deep engagement with both basic and clinical partners, and whose research program intimately involve the development and/or application of advanced computational methods. Examples include, but are not limited to:
- Clinical data generation, consumption and sharing to improve health care delivery;
- The development, testing, and analysis of devices, sensors, interfaces, & vectors (mechanical, optical, electrical, chemical), and their products, to advance health care and its delivery;
- Methods and modeling to understand the impact of climate change on human health;
- Deriving insights into human diseases through epidemiological research and mechanistic modeling;
- Improving our ability to understand, predict, and manipulate human immune responses (e.g., in the context of infectious diseases, neuro-immune interactions, or women’s health)
The successful candidate will be expected to fulfill all teaching, research, and service obligations of a junior faculty member at MIT. Faculty duties include teaching courses in health sciences and related subjects at the undergraduate and graduate levels, advising students, conducting original scholarly research, developing course materials at the graduate and undergraduate levels, and service to MIT and the profession.
Interested candidates should submit application materials electronically https://faculty-searches.mit.edu/imes-search/. Each application must include: a curriculum vitae; the names and addresses of three or more references; a strategic statement of research interests; and a statement of teaching interests. It is the responsibility of the candidate to arrange for reference letters to be uploaded at http://imes-search.mit.edu/letters.
Please address questions to imes-search@mit.edu. Responses received by December 1, 2024 will be given priority.
With MIT’s strong commitment to diversity in engineering and science education and research, we especially encourage those who will contribute to our diversity and outreach efforts to apply.
MIT is an equal employment opportunity employer. We value diversity and strongly encourage applications from individuals from all identities and background. All qualified applicants will receive equitable consideration for employment based on their experience and qualifications and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, religion, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, ancestry, or national or ethnic origin. See MIT’s full policy on Nondiscrimination (https://policies.mit.edu/policies-procedures/90-relations-and-responsibilities-within-mit-community/92-nondiscrimination). Know your rights.
Employment is contingent upon the completion of a satisfactory background check, including possible verification of any finding of misconduct (or pending investigation) from prior employers.
