Assistant Professor, Chemistry

DeSales University invites applications for a tenure-track position in Chemistry at the Assistant Professor level, beginning Fall
2027. We seek a collaborative educator-scholar with expertise in analytical chemistry and instrumentation who is committed to excellence in undergraduate teaching, mentoring, science outreach,and to the development of a sustained undergraduate research program.

The successful candidate will contribute to a department focused onstudent-centered learning, hands-on scientific training, and undergraduate research.

• Teach undergraduate courses in general and analytical chemistryas well as instrumental analysis, including laboratories
• Develop, maintain, and actively use shared instrumentationresources in both teaching and research
• Establish a productive undergraduate research program, mentoring and involving students in independent and course-based research
• Contribute to curriculum development, program assessment,student advisement and departmental initiatives
• Engage in service to the department, university, and broader community
• Participate in faculty development opportunities and attendconferences

• Ph.D. in Chemistry or closely related field
• Demonstrated expertise in analytical chemistry and chemicalinstrumentation
• Strong commitment to undergraduate teaching and mentoring
• Clear ability and commitment to developing and sustaining an undergraduate research program

• Experience teaching at the undergraduate level
• Experience maintaining, troubleshooting, or managinginstrumentation
• Experience mentoring undergraduate students in research
• Demonstrated commitment to undergraduate STEM education and outreach

August 2027 with option to begin January 2027

The Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry is located in the Priscilla Payne Hurd Science Center. Our facilities arewell-equipped with state-of-the-art instrumentation supported bycollege-controlled endowments. Instrumentation includes a 60-MHzteaching NMR spectrometer, thermal analysis (STA, bombcalorimetry), UV-Vis and fluorescence spectrophotometers, multipleUV-Vis and IR spectrometers, a magnetic susceptibility balance, aswell as other chromatographic (GC-TCD, GC-MS with FID and headspacesampler, HPLC, FPLC), electrochemical, and biochemicalinstrumentation.

University endowment funds are available toprovide start-up support for new faculty and continued support for research endeavors.

DeSales University is an EEO employer - M/F/Vets/Disabled;

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. This position isnot eligible for immigration sponsorship.