The School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University (ASU) invites applications for a full-time, benefits eligible, tenure-track assistant professor position in any area of immunology with an anticipated start date of August 16, 2027. Research areas of interest spans innate to adaptive immune processes with special consideration for applicants using cutting-edge approaches. This position is located on the Tempe Campus in Tempe, Arizona and requires physical presence at that location.
About School of Life Sciences
With more than 100 full-time faculty members and strong undergraduate and graduate training programs, the School of Life Sciences (SOLS) (https://sols.asu.edu/about/mission-vision) has wide-ranging expertise across the breadth of biological sciences that supports and encourages multiple interdisciplinary research initiatives. This position offers opportunities to interface with other research labs focused on immunology, infectious diseases, microbiomics, genomics, oncogenesis, neurodegeneration, and other areas across multiple colleges and institutes. Additionally, the newly established John Shufeldt School of Medicine and Medical Engineering at ASU offers additional collaboration opportunities. ASU offers an attractive start-up package with highly competitive conditions of employment. ASU, The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and SOLS value our cultural and intellectual breadth, and continually strive to foster a welcoming and inclusive environment. ASU’s stimulating and highly collaborative environment provides access to shared, state-of-the-art resources and well-equipped Bioscience core facilities (https://cores.research.asu.edu/biosciences).
Faculty members in SOLS are primarily located in modern laboratories in the heart of the Tempe, AZ campus. The research environment affords opportunities to collaborate with university-wide centers, institutes, in addition to multiple partners in the Phoenix area, including the Translational Genomics Research Institute (www.tgen.org), Barrow Neurological Institute (www.barrowneuro.org), Mayo Clinic (https://www.mayoclinic.org/about-mayo-clinic), the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix (https://phoenixmed.arizona.edu/), and Phoenix Children’s Hospital (www.phoenixchildrens.org). We have established inter-institutional graduate training programs that conduct research on a range of biomedically relevant fields (https://sols.asu.edu/degree/graduate/phd-molecular--cellular-bio-phd).
About The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is the academic heart of Arizona State University, committed to improving communities on a local, national, and global scale. We support the professional development and growth of our faculty and staff in their cutting-edge research to advance these aims. Within The College, our faculty engage with a large, curious student body, guiding them as they grow into socially aware, critical thinkers and writers able to succeed in a wide range of careers and to address the challenges of the twenty-first century. Advancing the success of our students remains our top priority. To learn more about The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, please visit https://thecollege.asu.edu.
About Arizona State University
ASU exemplifies a new prototype for the American public research university. As articulated in the ASU Charter (https://newamericanuniversity.asu.edu/about/asu-charter-mission-and-goals#%3A%7E%3Atext%3DASU%20is%20a%20comprehensive%20public%2Cof%20the%20communities%20it%20serves), ASU is a comprehensive public research university, measured not by whom it excludes, but by whom it includes and how they succeed; advancing research and discovery of public value; and assuming fundamental responsibility for the economic, social, cultural, and overall health of the communities it serves.
