{"id":118895,"date":"2022-06-23T16:32:47","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T20:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/?page_id=118895"},"modified":"2025-07-01T14:08:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T18:08:13","slug":"open-positions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/about-eng\/open-positions\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Faculty Positions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- \n\n<div style=\"background-color: #f3ae57; padding: 1em;\">\n<a name=\"bme\"><\/a>\n\n\n<h2>Now Open: Biomedical Engineering Department Chair<\/h2>\n\n\nThe Boston University College of Engineering seeks a dynamic, collaborative, and innovative leader to be the next Chair of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/academics\/departments-and-divisions\/biomedical-engineering\/\">Department of Biomedical Engineering<\/a> (BME). Reporting to the Dean of Engineering, the Chair is responsible for overall departmental leadership and administration, upholding the College\u2019s mission of expanding the power of engineering to transform lives at scale. The Chair should be an active researcher with a strong record of external funding, scholarship, teaching, and mentorship in addition to being recognized for distinguished contributions to the biomedical field.\n\nEstablished in 1966, BME is one of the oldest, top-ranked, and largest departments of biomedical engineering in the nation, with 42 tenured or tenure-track faculty and 633 undergraduate students and 290 graduate students. Surrounded by top medical research centers in the No. 1 biotech hub in the world at an AAU institution with a school of medicine and one of the only BSL-4 labs in an urban center in the U.S., the department is well-positioned for continued success and attracts exceptional graduate students and faculty at all levels. The department was one of only three in the country to receive both the Whitaker Foundation Leadership Award and the <a href=\"https:\/\/whcf.org\/coulter-foundation-programs\/translational-research\/coulter-translational-partnership-tp-and-research-awards-ctra\/coulter-translational-partnership-award-in-biomedical-engineering-tp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Coulter Foundation Award<\/a>. External research funding for primary BME faculty exceeds $30M per year, and faculty benefit from a strong infrastructure and strong community ties.\n\nSuccessful chair candidates will excel at identifying, recruiting, and supporting talented faculty and staff. An effective, experienced manager capable of overseeing, motivating, and organizing support staff, the Chair will be committed to promoting opportunities for professional development and advancement by faculty and staff alike. The incoming Chair will foster and promote the department\u2019s longstanding culture of honesty, integrity, and transparency and demonstrate a commitment to building and supporting a community of faculty and staff from a diverse set of backgrounds. They will encourage community engagement and shared responsibility within the department. Finally, successful candidates will demonstrate an ability to represent the department strategically to external audiences.\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imsearch.com\/open-searches\/boston-university-college-engineering\/chair-department-biomedical-engineering\" class=\"button\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">APPLY<\/a>\n\n<\/div>\n\n --><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We are proud of our increasingly diverse and exceptional student body, and we encourage applications from candidates who will contribute to our mission of ensuring BU is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/about-eng\/outreach-diversity-inclusion\/\">inclusive, equitable, diverse, and a place where all members of our community can thrive<\/a>. The College partners with the University-wide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/diversity\/\">Diversity and Inclusion office<\/a> to support faculty, student, and staff success, and we complement programs offered through Boston University\u2019s membership in the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity with in-house mentoring of early career faculty.<\/p>\n<p>The College has also embarked on a multi-year strategic expansion of research in six convergent areas: (1) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/research-impact\/our-approach\/energy-sustainability-climate\/\">Energy, Sustainability and Climate<\/a>; (2) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/research-impact\/our-approach\/intelligent-autonomous-secure-systems\/\">Intelligent, Autonomous and Secure Systems;<\/a> (3) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/research-impact\/our-approach\/photonics-optical-systems\/\">Photonics and Optical Systems<\/a>; (4) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/research-impact\/our-approach\/neuroengineering-neuroinformatics-neuroscience\/\">Neuroengineering, Neuroinformatics, and Neuroscience<\/a>; (5) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/research-impact\/our-approach\/synthetic-biology-tissue-engineering-mechanobiology\/\">Synthetic Biology, Tissue Engineering and Mechanobiology<\/a>; and (6) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/research-impact\/our-approach\/materials-by-design\/\">Materials by Design<\/a>. Woven throughout these themes is our emphasis on research and teaching that cuts across traditional disciplinary boundaries. We are especially eager to receive applications from candidates who will embrace our culture of collaboration.<\/p>\n<p><!-- The College has 125 tenured or tenure-track primary faculty and is ranked 16th among private universities. Research activity by primary College faculty is over $70M per year. Engineering faculty lead and participate in several high-profile, interdisciplinary research centers including the Institute for Global Sustainability, Hariri Center for Computational Science and Engineering, Center for Information and Systems Engineering, Biological Design Center, BUNano, Neurophotonics Center, Center for Systems Neuroscience, Photonics Center, Center for Multiscale and Translational Mechanobiology, Center for Forced Displacement, and the NSF Engineering Research Center in Cellular Metamaterials. --><\/p>\n<p>Boston University is an AAU institution and an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; We are proud of our increasingly diverse and exceptional student body, and we encourage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8588,"featured_media":0,"parent":118363,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"bu-landing","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118895"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118895"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164577,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118895\/revisions\/164577"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}