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FACULTY POSITIONS IN COMPUTATIONAL EARTH SCIENCES & ENGINEERING
The KAUST-UT Austin Academic Excellence Alliance, a partnership between the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES) at The University of Texas at Austin, invites applications for faculty positions at KAUST within the area of Computational Earth Sciences and Engineering. We seek outstanding scientists to fill at least 10 faculty positions across all ranks (assistant, associate, and full professor) at the new KAUST campus on the Red Sea in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.
KAUST (http://www.kaust.edu.sa) is being established as a world-class international graduate-level science and technology research university dedicated to inspiring a new age of scientific achievement in the Kingdom that will also benefit the region and the world. The KAUST mission emphasizes research on applications of science and technology to problems of human need, social advancement, and economic development, in collaboration with leading universities around the world. KAUST is dedicated to a respect for diversity and the highest standards of merit-based opportunity, and seeks the finest students and faculty without regard to nationality, gender, or religious belief.
KAUST is an independent university that is governed by a self-perpetuating Board of Trustees and supported by a multi-billion dollar endowment. It reinvents the modern research university by establishing advanced research institutes that focus on interdisciplinary problems as the central organizing unit, and offering only graduate (M.S. and Ph.D.) degrees. The four initial research institutes are: Resources, Energy and Environment; Biosciences and Bioengineering; Materials Science and Engineering; and Applied Mathematics and Computational Science. KAUST's new 36 million square meter state-of-the-art campus in Thuwal (80km north of Jeddah) will open its doors to students in Fall 2009. The campus includes a seaside town with housing, shops, schools, and numerous recreational amenities.
The KAUST-UT Austin Alliance was formed to help build a research program at KAUST in Computational Earth Sciences and Engineering. Research areas of interest include modeling and simulation in seismology and geophysics; subsurface flow and transport; geomechanics; carbon sequestration; hydrology and water resources; geochemistry; climate, ocean, and earth systems; and reservoir and regional environmental systems, in addition to advanced mathematical and computational techniques for the earth sciences, including multiscale modeling and discretization, parallel solvers, inverse problems, data assimilation, and uncertainty quantification. The Academic Excellence Alliance will facilitate collaboration among faculty, researchers, and students at the two universities via short- and long-term visits and support for collaborative research projects between KAUST faculty and UT faculty from ICES, the Jackson School of Geosciences, and the Cockrell School of Engineering. In particular, KAUST faculty will have the opportunity to spend up to a year in residence as Visiting Fellows at UT-Austin prior to the opening of the campus in 2009.
We are seeking faculty with an ability to build world-class research programs, depth in one or more of the above earth science areas as well as in mathematical and computational techniques, interests in conducting research on interdisciplinary societal problems in a collaborative environment, and an ability to teach graduate courses in fundamental earth science areas as well as in computational methods.
The unrivaled resources available to KAUST faculty--including security of research funding, state-of-the-art laboratories, a petascale computing facility, assured support for graduate students, postdocs, and technicians, generous travel allowances, and world-class salaries and benefits--offer the opportunity to focus on building leading research programs without the uncertainties and overheads experienced elsewhere. To apply for a faculty position, please send a cover letter, curriculum vitae, statements of research and teaching experience and interests, and contact information for at least four references to kaust-aea@ices.utexas.edu. Review of applications will begin immediately, and will continue until all positions are filled.
Questions may be directed to Professor Omar Ghattas, Director of the KAUST-UT Austin AEA, at kaust-aea@ices.utexas.edu.
Omar Ghattas
John A. and Katherine G. Jackson Chair in Computational Geosciences
