Job Details

Open Rank or Assistant Professor

Position Number: 7036518
Location: Boston, MA
Position Type: Science - Biology

The Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology at the Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine invites applications for two faculty positions in Neuroscience, an Assistant Professor position and a position that is open rank, starting in Fall 2026. While we welcome applications from all areas, we are most interested in:

Neural Development

Systems Neuroscience

Connectomic approaches

Brain interactions with internal sensory and/or immune systems, central-periphery nervous systems neuroscience

The successful applicant will synergize with our existing strengths by bringing a research program that uses cutting edge cellular and molecular technologies combined with integrative, multidisciplinary approaches to address translational neurobiological questions in animal model systems, cell culture systems, and/or human brain. Use of artificial intelligence and machine learning approaches is a plus. Details of current faculty and research in the Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology can be found at: (http://www.bumc.bu.edu/anatneuro/).

The successful applicant will join a strong and growing Boston University interdisciplinary neuroscience research community where departmental research programs have close interactions with neurophotonics, data sciences, bioinformatics, psychological and brain sciences, biomedical engineering, the center for systems neuroscience, and synthetic and systems biology. Boston University expects excellence in both teaching and research. Faculty responsibilities will also include teaching at the graduate level, and participation in graduate training through mentoring.

The successful candidate will be offered a competitive salary and start-up package, including up-to-date laboratory facilities.

To apply, submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and statements of research interests, teaching interests, and three representative reprints. Please also provide three letters of reference.

Email application materials with the subject line "A&N Faculty Search" and the track you are applying to (Assistant Professor or Open Rank) to: ancamed@bu.edu

BU conducts a background check on all final candidates for certain faculty and staff positions The background check includes contacting the final candidate's current and previous employer(s) to ask whether, in the last seven years, there has been a substantiated finding of misconduct violating that employer's applicable sexual misconduct policies. To implement this process, the University requires a final candidate to complete and sign the form entitled "Authorization to Release Information" after execution of an offer letter.