The University of Texas at Austin: College of Natural Sciences: Department of Integrative Biology
Location The University of Texas at Austin
Open Date: Oct 07, 2025
Deadline: Nov 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time
Description:
The Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin seeks to fill a faculty position at the Full Professor rank to serve as the Director of the Billie L. Turner Plant Resources Center (PRC). The PRC has a world-class plant collection of 1.1 million specimens in two herbaria, TEX and LL(https://biodiversity.utexas.edu/collections/plants) and is a part of the Biodiversity Center (https://biodiversity.utexas.edu) within the Department of Integrative Biology. The successful candidate will be expected to demonstrate exemplary leadership of the PRC in biodiversity programming. The PRC has three fulltime staff and several large endowments that secure its future funding. The PRC also has two endowed faculty positions in systematic botany and eligible candidates will be nominated to be the holder of the Sidney F. and Doris Blake Centennial Professorship in Systematic Botany.
Qualifications:
We prefer candidates with an outstanding record of research that demonstrates innovation in addressing fundamental questions in biodiversity and evolution of plants. Applicants should have a demonstrated successful career, including influential publications, extramural research funding, and a commitment to excellent teaching. We are particularly interested in candidates whose research, teaching and graduate student/postdoctoral training programs actively engage with our plant collections and leverage the opportunities offered by our associated field stations (https://biodiversity.utexas.edu/field-stations-page).
Application Instructions
Applicants should submit a cover letter, CV, one statement summarizing research, teaching, mentoring, experience with collections, pdfs of 5 reprints/preprints, and names and addresses of three references to Interfolio at apply.interfolio.com/175377. Reference letters will be requested from selected applicants at a later date. Applications received by November 10, 2025 will be assured full consideration. For additional information about the department, see https://integrativebio.utexas.edu.