Job Opportunities at Notre Dame

Notre Dame has just set up a new Biocomplexity Center involving some 40 faculty at the University of Notre Dame and a variety of other institutions. Notre Dame has numerous openings in biological physics / biophysics / biology / biomathematics / bioengineering this year. The appointments may be at different level from assistant to 
chaired professor with either experimental, computational or theoretical emphasis.

The University is making a strong, long term commitment in this direction with a new building under discussion and hires this year planned in the Departments of Mathematics, Physics, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Aerospace Engineering. The Department of Biological Sciences is also looking for someone in biological physics with a cell biology focus. The initial focuses of the Center are: 1) Biological networks (at all scales from genetic control networks to neural networks), 2) Cytoskeleton and cell motility (including molecular motors) and 3) Organogenesis/tissue formation and mechanics. 4) The departments would also be interested in people with a device oriented background (confocal microscopy, CT, MRI or synchrotron X-Ray tomography). There is also the possibility of work with the 
well established and rapidly growing Nanotechnology Center here.

We would ask you to encourage your colleagues to apply for one of these positions--salaries and start-up packages are very competitive and we feel that it is an exciting time to come to Notre Dame. I'd very much appreciate it if you would forward this letter--we would also be interested in making contact with promising younger researchers--senior graduate students or early stage postdocs of exceptional promise who might be looking for faculty positions in two or three years time.

We would encourage applicants to contact multiple departments if appropriate and especially, to let us know when and to whom they have sent an application so that we can follow it up with the appropriate people. Joint and concurrent appointments are a 
definite possibility. Some of these positions may not have been advertised yet, but all departments are currently accepting applications. We encourage applicants to apply as soon as possible if they have any interest. All applications will be treated as 
confidential.

In addition we are looking for both experimental and theoretical/computational postdocs to join our ongoing NSF funded project on chick limb development (Prof. Galzier, Dept. of Physics, Prof. Alber, Dept. of Mathematics, Prof. Jesus Izaguirre, Dept. of Computer Science), Prof. Stuart Newman (NY Medical College), Prof. Gabor Forgacs (University of Missouri, Columbia) and Prof. George Hentschel (Emory University). If you have any promising graduate students who might be interested for this year or next year, please have them send their applications directly to me. These postdocs could be for up to four years duration. Please check our web site for more information: http://www.nd.edu/~biophys/