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Strategic Faculty Recruitment Initiative in One Health
- Healthy and Resilient Living Systems
- Quantitative Neuroscience, Department of Biological Sciences

Purdue University Main Campus | Indianapolis and West Lafayette, IN Tenure-Track/Tenured Faculty Positions at Assistant and Associate Ranks

As part of a transformative, university-wide initiative in One Health
- Healthy and Resilient Living Systems, the Purdue University Department of Biological Sciences invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track or tenured faculty position at the Assistant or Associate Professor level with a focus on Quantitative Neuroscience. We seek an innovative experimental neuroscientist who uses scalable approaches to generate and computationally analyze rich, high-dimensional measurements of neural phenotypes. The ideal candidate will investigate how the nervous system maintains, adapts, or loses resilience during development, physiological stress, aging, or disease.

We welcome applications from scientists using diverse, scalable experimental strategies to measure neural phenotypes across spatial and organizational scales, from molecules and synapses to cells, circuits, and intact nervous systems. Biological models may include single cells, primary neuronal cultures, three-dimensional organoids, or in vivo preparations.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

• High-throughput phenotyping using automated microscopy, image-based profiling, or optical pooled screening.
• Advanced functional imaging of neural activity in live cells, deep tissues, or intact circuits.
• Multimodal and spatial omics linked to cellular phenotypes or states.
• Novel tool development, including optical, molecular, or screening tools that enable scalable quantitative measurement and perturbation of neural cells and systems.

The Department of Biological Sciences is the largest department in the Life Sciences at Purdue, with a strong neuroscience and physiology community and research spanning biological scales from molecules to ecosystems. This position builds on Purdue’s established leadership in artificial intelligence, computational biology, and neuroscience; world-leading expertise in quantitative imaging and image-based profiling, including the Cells to Cures Engine; and the Department’s recent expansion in multi-omics and human stem cell biology.

The successful candidate will join a highly dynamic and collaborative community of researchers with access to world-class core facilities, including those at the Bindley Bioscience Center.

This strategic recruitment will help advance Purdue’s One Health initiative ( https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). ) which seeks to tackle complex challenges with real-world impact at the intersection of human, animal, and plant health. This recruitment initiative builds on previous strategic faculty recruitment initiatives in: (1) Integrated Health; (2) AI-Driven Biomolecular Design, and (3) Advanced Chemistry. In addition, a parallel strategic faculty recruitment initiative in Intelligent Medicines is ongoing.

Through academic programs, research, facility infrastructure and industry partnerships, Purdue’s One Health efforts are making giant leaps in improving health outcomes for all living things and driving economic growth regionally and globally. This strategic faculty recruitment initiative focused on Healthy and Resilient Living Systems is expected to build on prior recruitment initiatives and existing Purdue research and academic strengths, to transform research and impact human, animal and environmental health by bridging silos…