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The University is dedicated to supporting an equitable, diverse, and inclusive environment. The diverse backgrounds, characteristics and opinions within our community are our great strength and are key to our pursuit of delivering educational excellence, enterprise, research and professional services. We welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds and minoritised groups as they are currently under-represented within our community.
We are looking to appoint Professors to our Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering and our Department of Chemical Engineering.
The School comprises three departments: (i) Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering, (ii) Chemical Engineering, and (iii) Materials, which run discipline based teaching programmes, but are highly collaborative in research.
We have excellent facilities, recently refurbished labs and state-of-the-art-equipment, which support our world-leading teaching and research programmes. The School of AACME is a community of 85 academic staff, 60 post-doctoral research associates, 120 research students and a team of 70 highly-skilled technical and administrative staff. The School’s new research grants and contracts income are around £11 million pa, funded by EPSRC, Innovate UK, industry partners, EU, government and charities. In both research and teaching, the School enjoys strong industrial links that support research sponsorship and collaboration, student placements and graduate employment.
Research highlights and key partnerships include:
Successful candidates will have a record of academic excellence which is contributing to the furtherance of knowledge in their discipline. Candidates must also have a PhD or equivalent experience and be able to demonstrate academic leadership and international recognition in their field. We are also seeking applications from people who can work across discipline boundaries to bring research ideas together.
Find out more about the academic opportunities we have on offer in the discipline areas within the School of Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering on our dedicated website.
Closing date for applications: Sunday 27th November 2022
A copy of the generic job description for the position of Professor is available here.