Assistant Professor - Impacts of Global Environmental - Department of Geography

Assistant Professor
- Impacts of Global Environmental Change
- Department of Geography

The Department of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley invites applications for a tenure-track position in Impacts of Global Environmental Change at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin July 1, 2027. This position will bring expertise in a physically-based understanding and scholarship of environmental change and its underlying processes and how environmental change is transforming the lived experiences of communities.

This position will address the critical challenge of producing transformative scientific scholarship for societally-relevant understanding and action. We seek scholarship on the mechanisms and impacts of global environmental change, such as more frequent and severe heatwaves and drought, altered hydrological cycles and water resources, and land-use and land cover change, although other research topics are welcome. We particularly encourage community-engaged research that co-develops research questions and methods with relevant communities, stakeholders, and rights-holders, aligned with the goals of the search and the mission of our department.

This position will add to the department's existing quantitative strengths in physical geography, contributing to our research and teaching areas in Earth System Science, Critical Environments, and Geospatial Representation. Berkeley Geography has been a center of scholarship on human relationships to the environment for more than a century.

The Department of Geography is committed to addressing the family needs of its faculty, including dual-career couples and single parents. We are also interested in candidates who have had non-traditional career paths or who have taken time off for family reasons, or who have achieved excellence in careers outside academia. For information about potential relocation to Berkeley, or career needs of accompanying partners and spouses, please visit:
New Senate Faculty webpage.

Basic qualifications (required at time of application):
PhD (or equivalent international degree), or enrolled in PhD or equivalent international degree-granting program at the time of application.

Preferred qualifications:

The ideal candidate will bring expertise in physical understanding of the underlying mechanisms of environmental changes, quantitative measurements and analysis such as field data collection, spatial statistics, and spatial modeling, and an ability to leverage quantitative analysis to co-produce environmental solutions with local community organizations, stakeholders, and rights-holders. The successful candidate will have experience with undergraduate and graduate teaching and mentoring, have evidence of strong research productivity and the potential for securing extramural funding, contribute to the department's collaborative academic environment, and advance research agendas that deepen understanding of global environmental change.

Application Requirements:
Document requirements include Curriculum Vitae, Cover Letter, Teaching and Mentoring Statement, Research Statement, Service Statement, Authorization to Release Information Form, and three Publication/Writing Samples. Reference requirements include 3 required (contact information only). Letters will be solicited at the end of October for those candidates under serious consideration with a submission deadline of two weeks from when the request is sent for those applicants under consideration at that stage.