Department Chair, Biomechanical Engineering and Informatics
Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering
Job Type: Full Time Faculty
Workplace: Onsite
Location: 535 West Michigan Street, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Job Description: The new chair will have the opportunity to shape and expand a dynamic department on the premier urban research campus of Indiana University. By strengthening or complementing the faculty research in the department, the ideal candidates will use creative, innovative approaches and technologies to address fundamental scientific challenges in one or more areas of biomedical informatics and engineering with broader societal impact, and have the potential to leverage the strengths of Luddy, including: the Polis Center, the Luddy AI Center, leadership on the campus-level Integrated Nanosystems Development Institute (INDI), the unique location in downtown Indianapolis, and interdisciplinary, collegial and collaborative environment, as well as direct access to the research enterprise of IU School of Medicine, the largest medical school in the country, located on the Indianapolis campus
Minimum Qualifications:
Candidates must be tenured and demonstrate an excellent scholarly record of externally-funded research, effective and well-reviewed teaching, a forward-looking agenda of research and education, and last but not the least a record of leadership experience in an academic setting.
The Ideal Candidate
• Tenured full-rank professor
• Experience in principled leadership, building and managing effective teams of intellectually and culturally diverse individuals, and supervising faculty and staff. Experience planning and building academic programs. Experience in managing complex budgets.
• Ability to design, manage, grow, and evolve research-driven and industry-oriented academic programs of the highest quality at both the undergraduate and graduate level.
• Pursue an active, forward-looking and externally-funded research agenda, as evidenced by a history of peer-reviewed publications, successful grant proposal writing, and involvement in grant supported research projects as the principal investigator.
• Outstanding record conducting individual and collaborative research.
• Ability to communicate clearly and directly.
Qualifications
• Ph.D in bioinformatics, health informatics, medical informatics, biotechnology, biomedical engineering, computer science or related fields.
• Significant research and education experience in the field.
• Demonstrated ability to develop a record of outstanding externally-funded research productivity, exhibit effective teaching, and creatively adapt and diversify pedagogy for online or blended learning.
• Successful experience or demonstrated potential in leading an academic unit with staff and faculty employees
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Posted: 7/15/2024