Assistant Professor Position at the University of New Mexico

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ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS:

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of New Mexico invites applications at the rank of Assistant Professor for a full-time, probationary position leading to a tenure decision. The department expects to hire a specialist in biomathematics or biostatistics for Fall, 2010. Minimum qualifications are a Ph.D. in applied mathematics, statistics, biomathematics, biostatistics, systems biology or a related field with a strong mathematical or statistical emphasis. Experience of working in teams with biomedical researchers is desirable.

The successful candidate will help develop an interdisciplinary teaching and research program between the department and the New Mexico Center for Spatiotemporal Modeling of Cell Signaling (STMC), one of ten NIH-funded National Centers for Systems Biology (www.systemscenters.org).

To apply, please click on the following UNMJobs link: https://unmjobs.unm.edu and follow the online instructions listed in the "Faculty Positions" tab. A cover letter, curriculum vitae, teaching statement, research statement, and contact information for a minimum of three individuals who will provide letters of recommendation are required. Should you be a finalist, the list of individuals you provide will be contacted via email and given information on how to submit their recommendations.

For best consideration, please submit your online application by March 8, 2010. The position will remain open until filled. UNM's confidentiality policy ("Recruitment and Hiring," Policy #3210) includes information about public disclosure of documents submitted by applicants, is located at http://www.unm.edu/~ubppm. University of New Mexico is an EEO/AA employer.

The statistics faculty have outstanding research programs and international reputations. The group teaches courses ranging from introductory classes for non-majors to graduate courses for Master and Ph.D. students in statistics. The Ph.D. program in statistics at UNM is the only doctoral program in statistics in New Mexico. Employment opportunities are plentiful in statistics. We revised our Masters program to make it even more attractive and useful, focusing on the primary areas of employment: biostatistical, industrial, and business applications. Statistics has a huge potential for growth across disciplines in teaching, facilitating research in other departments, joint research with other departments, and in purely statistical research inspired by real world problems. More information is available on the stats home page.

Research in applied mathematics is active and broad, benefiting greatly from close collaborations with scientists at the Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories, the Air Force Research Laboratory, several Science and Engineering Departments at the University and with the UNM School of Medicine and Cancer Center. There is also close interaction with the programs in pure mathematics and statistics, and our students are encouraged to take courses in these programs and in other departments.

Research topics explored by our faculty and students include analysis and numerical simulation of wave propagation; dynamics of fluids; mathematical biology, in particular dynamics of infectious diseases and modeling of protein folding; applications of mathematics to particle accelerators, nonlinear optics, continuum mechanics, and electromagnetic lens design; and numerical and symbolic computing for partial differential equations. More information is available at the applied math home page.

The successful candidates will help develop an interdisciplinary teaching and research program between the department and the New Mexico Center for Spatiotemporal Modeling of Cell Signaling (STMC), one of ten National Centers for Systems Biology funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS). The goal of the STMC is to integrate new mathematics and statistics with new biology and technology to understand how molecular processes, working in space and time, regulate signaling pathways in immune and cancer cells. Members of the STMC research teams are located in the UNM College of Arts and Sciences (currently Math/Stat and Physics), the UNM Schools of Medicine and Engineering, and at the Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories; most STMC members also benefit from membership in the UNM Cancer Center.

The STMC's overall research goal is to determine how the spatial proximity, dynamics, interactions and biochemical modifications of membrane receptors and signaling proteins together determine the outcome of complex, interacting cell signaling networks important in immune function and in cancer. Signaling and crosstalk between tyrosine kinase-coupled, tyrosine phosphatase-coupled and G protein-coupled receptors important in immunology and cancer is emphasized.

STMC biologists have particular expertise in quantitative biochemical measurements of protein phosphorylation/dephosphorylation and in dynamic high resolution imaging of protein-protein interactions and Ca2+ mobilization dynamics. STMC mathematicians, statisticians and other physical scientists are critically involved both in improving the measurement tools through developments in image analysis for electron microscopy and for super-resolution fluorescence microscopy and in extending the modeling approaches, that include rules-based modeling to describe biochemical cascades, stochastic spatial modeling to evaluate spatial aspects of receptor signaling and of Ca2+ mobilization, and hybrid methods to integrate the different approaches. For more information see the STMC web page.

Albuquerque has a vibrant scientific environment. The University houses centers for High-Performance Computing and High Technology Materials and is located in close proximity to Sandia National Laboratories and the Air Force Research Laboratory. In addition there are formal ties with Los Alamos National Laboratory, located in northern New Mexico. The state has established a new center for high-performance computing in Albuquerque, with the 7th ranked supercomputer, Encanto, which is accessible to University researchers through UNM's HPCC.

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