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Strategic Faculty Recruitment Initiative in One Health, Healthy and Resilient Living Systems - College of Agriculture, Plant Sciences
Position Summary
As part of a transformative, university-wide initiative in One Health – Healthy and Resilient Living Systems, the College of Agriculture invites applications for an academic year tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level. Specifically, the College seeks to recruit a basic plant biologist whose discovery-driven research advances fundamental understanding of plant biology and biochemistry at one or more biological scales – from genes and molecules to cells, organisms, populations, communities, or ecosystems. Successful candidates will be practiced in leveraging current and emerging artificial intelligence-enabled approaches to accelerate scientific discovery and advance our understanding of healthy and resilient living systems.
We seek a researcher with interests that encompass two or more aspects of plant biology. Topics representing possible synergistic opportunities include molecular and cellular biology, plant biochemistry and natural product formation, developmental biology, physiology, genetics and genomics, evolution, plant–microbe and plant–insect interactions, plant–environment interactions, ecology, and ecosystem science. Candidates are encouraged to integrate artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, foundation models, computational modeling, autonomous experimentation, and other data-driven approaches to analyze complex biological data, generate and test hypotheses, reveal biological mechanisms, and predict biological responses across scales. Building on Purdue’s strengths in agriculture, engineering, artificial intelligence, data science, and health sciences, successful candidates will help establish a globally distinctive platform for AI-enabled discovery, prediction, and understanding of living systems. We particularly seek scientists whose research expands the frontiers of knowledge in plant biology, preferentially by spanning biological scales and disciplines, while contributing to Purdue’s leadership in One Health and healthy and resilient living systems.
The Department
The Department of Botany and Plant Pathology has a creative faculty that conducts wide-ranging research in weed science, plant pathology, and plant biology. The department is part of a dynamic research community of scientists in the College of Agriculture and across the university, including SWPAC. The department is primarily located in Lilly Hall on the Purdue main campus in West Lafayette, with research labs, instructional spaces and teaching labs, a greenhouse complex, and plant growth facilities.