Assistant Professor (R&T) in Humanitarian Engineering (108630-0225)

About the Role

For informal enquiries, please contact Professor John Murphy (Head of Department) at john.d.murphy@warwick.ac.uk.

The School of Engineering is seeking to recruit a talented and enthusiastic Assistant Professor on the traditional research and teaching pathway. For this post, we seek someone with the subject expertise for the design and engineered solutions to the World’s most complex and diverse humanitarian issues, applied within a civil engineering context.

Research areas for this appointment include: Sustainable Cities; Net Zero Carbon Design; Infrastructures for Emergencies; or International Development, Sustainability and the Climate Emergency. An applicant’s research is expected to make contributions of a fundamental nature whilst also addressing a practical focus to an industrial or application sector which may be interdisciplinary. The appointee will complement existing activity in the School or establish new activity. Consideration will be given to alignment with existing research facilities in the School and in the University’s Research Technology Platforms.

The successful appointee will undertake design, delivery and administration of teaching and learning at undergraduate and postgraduate level led by the Discipline of Civil and Environmental Engineering within the School of Engineering at the University of Warwick. In an interdisciplinary forum, the Assistant Professor will be able to teach on the cross-faculty MSc programme in Humanitarian Engineering.

We will consider applications for employment on a part-time or other flexible working basis, even where a position is advertised as full-time, unless there are operational or other objective reasons why it is not possible to do so.

About You
You will have a PhD in a relevant engineering or scientific discipline. You will demonstrate the capability to establish an independent research activity which has the ambition and potential to become internationally leading. You will be appointed for a probationary period (usually five years) to enable you to establish your research group. Successful completion of probation will coincide with promotion to an Associate Professor position. You will initiate, develop and deliver high-quality research, publish top-tier journal papers and demonstrate the potential for impact from your research. You will engage with higher education pedagogy and be willing to develop novel teaching methods, embracing changes in teaching technology and expectations.

Full details of the duties and selection criteria for this role can be found in the vacancy advert on the University of Warwick's jobs pages. You will be routed to this when you click on the 'Apply' button.

CLOSING DATE: Monday, 31st March 2025 at 11.55pm.

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