Assistant Professor / Associate Professor, Department of Earth Science and Engineering

Are you seeking an academic appointment in a friendly and visionary department to further your research career and engage in teaching? The Department of Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial College London has four academic positions available. We are looking for colleagues to compliment and enrich our teaching and research activities and expand our multidisciplinary and inclusive community.

We're committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. We particularly welcome applications from women and people from Black and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, as they are currently underrepresented in our academic team. We believe diverse perspectives drive innovation so actively seek to attract a diverse pool of candidates and ensure fair and inclusive recruitment processes for all applicants.

Your interest may lie in any area of Earth Science and engineering from climate / environment / sustainability, to engineering for the energy transition and future materials, to natural hazards, and the interface of life and health.

Our Department has a proud history of bridging blue skies research, applied science, and engineering solutions for our changing planet. We are particularly keen to attract engineers and scientists to grow our existing research strengths. We are also keen to attract candidates with skills in field geology, remote sensing, isotope geochemistry, and AI/data science/machine learning.

All positions are full-time, open-ended (tenured) academic positions.

You should be motivated to join a collaborative, multidisciplinary environment, perform original research, and write research funding bids. You will have the scope to teach on our popular undergraduate and/or postgraduate courses, work with our enthusiastic students, and be supported by a community united in the desire to make a difference in this world.

Research in the Department of Earth Science and Engineering is wide-ranging and across five broad themes: Climate & Environment, Energy & Resources, Life & Health, Earth Processes & Geohazards, and Planetary Science. All areas deploy and advance digital technologies such as computational modelling, AI, remote sensing, and data science.

We house a strong offering of geochemical facilities, computing infrastructure, technical and administrative support, access to a wide range of internal and external facilities supporting ground-breaking research and closely collaborate with our neighbours and colleagues at the Natural History Museum.

Our teaching portfolio combines the traditional and the pioneering with undergraduate programmes in Earth and Planetary Science, Geology, and Geophysics, and postgraduate courses in Responsible Mining and Metals Finance, and multiple computational subjects including Applied Computational Science and Engineering (ASCE), Environmental Data Science and Machine Learning (EDSML), Geo-Energy with Machine Learning and Data Science (GEMS) and Renewable Energy with AI and Data Science: Geology & Geophysics (READY).

To underline our commitment to educating a diverse cohort of scientists and engineers, we have established the umbrella of the Ada Lovelace Academy for our computationally based MSc programmes. The Ada Lovelace Academy seeks to help overcome the underrepresentation of women in engineering by achieving gender parity across our computational courses by 2030.

• PhD or equivalent in an appropriate field.
• A portfolio of research publications, grants, and/or commercialisation activities confirming national/international standing (commensurate with career stage).
• Experience of teaching undergraduate and/or postgraduate students.
• Ability to convey ideas and concepts clearly and effectively.
• Collaborative mindset with an ability to build and sustain effective working relationships, both internally and externally.
• Evidence of contribution to the development and performance of others through coaching, mentoring, and advancing equality, diversity and inclusion.

A full description of the duties and requirements for the position can be found in the Job Description.