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Mark Davidson and Joanna Collingwood align a sample of Alzheimer's brain tissue at Argonne National Laboratory's Advanced Photon Source.
The Institute for Molecular Engineering is an academic unit at the University with the authority to appoint faculty in Molecular Engineering. The unit reports to the Provost and maintains close relationships with the Biological Sciences and Physical Sciences Divisions as well as with Argonne National Laboratory. The institute represents a thematically important expansion of the University's overall research program at the interface of the biological, physical, computational, and medical sciences.
Open Faculty Leadership Positions
Initial faculty hires will be made into a minimum of four endowed chairs. These chairs will be filled by senior faculty members with demonstrated accomplishment and intellectual leadership and who will participate in building clusters of talent to carry out the research and education missions of the institute. Joint appointments with Argonne or other University units will be encouraged where appropriate. Apply now »
Important areas for initial hires include:
- Materials synthesis, including organic, inorganic, and semiconductor materials
- Device fabrication and assembly at the micro- and nano-scales
- Quantum information engineering
- Imaging and other structural tools
- Biological and biomedical engineering, including synthetic and systems biology, bio-inspired materials, and regenerative medicine
- Medical diagnostics and therapeutics
- Computational engineering, including multi-scale modeling and prediction
Building a Faculty
The institute expects to have at least 24 faculty members within a decade. "That gives us some scope to create interdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary teams, uniquely composed to enable collaboration on the conception of research," Tirrell said. "Together, our people will go in directions that they wouldn't have by themselves."
In addition to working in the theme areas, the faculty, many with joint appointments at Argonne, will develop introductory and specialized courses, and later will propose a curriculum in molecular engineering to support an undergraduate major as well as graduate degrees.