Faculty Openings

Assistant Professor – Hydrologic Systems Engineering – Fall 2027

The Fariborz Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in hydrologic systems engineering. We seek a candidate whose research advances fundamental understanding of hydrologic processes and addresses complex water challenges through a systems perspective. We are particularly interested in research that examines interactions, feedbacks, and connectivity among hydrologic processes across spatial and temporal scales.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, riverine, estuarine, and coastal systems; surface and subsurface hydrology; transport processes and sediment dynamics; coupled human-water systems; hydrologic prediction and modeling across scales, and responses to hydroclimatic extremes. Candidates whose research integrates novel experimental and observational approaches, field studies, Earth observations and remote sensing, data assimilation, or physics-based, data-driven, or hybrid modeling and computational methods are encouraged to apply.

We are committed to supporting the success of all members of our community: students, staff and faculty. A successful candidate can expect to benefit from and contribute to those efforts.

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Assistant Professor – Engineering for the Extreme – Fall 2027

We are interested in candidates whose research addresses the multitude of challenges in engineering for the extreme, at both the system and material levels, including: (a) design for extreme terrestrial (subsea, underground, polar, desert) or extraterrestrial (lunar, Martian, orbital) settings; (b) design strategies to enhance resilience to extreme natural (e.g., atmospheric) or anthropogenic events (e.g., wildfires); and/or (c) design for extreme or uncommon stressors (e.g., radiation, intense thermal cycling, extreme pressures, micrometeorite impacts).

Candidates leveraging AI and physics-informed computational modeling in novel ways for engineering for the extreme are strongly encouraged to apply. The successful candidate will have access to various experimental and high-performance computing facilities.

We are committed to supporting the success of all members of our community: students, staff, and faculty. A successful candidate can expect to benefit from and contribute to those efforts.

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Assistant Professor – Advanced Computational Geotechnics – Fall 2027

The Fariborz Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in geotechnical engineering with expertise in advanced computational geotechnics. The candidate’s research should address innovative computational methods for analyzing, modeling and predicting the behavior of geotechnical systems across multiple spatial and temporal scales. Specific research areas of interest may include: advanced computational methods, constitutive and multi-physics modeling, digital twins and predictive simulation, data-enabled computational geomechanics, subsurface data interpretation and modeling and computational modeling of resilient infrastructure systems.

We are committed to supporting the success of all members of our community: students, staff, and faculty. A successful candidate can expect to benefit from and contribute to those efforts.

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Suggestions for Preparing Application Materials

Cover Letter: Describe synergies with existing research and teaching programs conducted by UT faculty. Please include a brief and accessible description of your research and its potential application/societal impact and a brief summary of your values around teaching and mentoring. Please also share why you are interested in the UT CAEE program and how you see yourself being successful here.
Curriculum Vitae: CVs should include funding/grant information, if applicable. Please list all publications.
Research Statement: Describe your research contributions to date and your plans for your first five years as an assistant professor. An effective research statement will highlight your individual contributions and describe past and potential future collaborations with others. Please also highlight the impact of your research and describe any potential applications that benefit society. Optional: Representative publications, preprints, or documentation of other scholarly accomplishments can be attached at the end of the research statement.
Teaching and Mentoring Statement: Describe your teaching and mentoring experiences to date, your teaching philosophy and your plans for teaching. Please identify undergraduate and/or graduate courses that you could teach as an assistant professor, indicating for each your experience with the material and your interest and approach to teaching it. An effective teaching and mentoring statement will describe your pedagogical approach in the classroom and convey how your prior experiences shape your teaching plans. It should also include your approach to mentoring students in research, with particular attention to how you will support each student’s success and your commitment to their professional development, educational growth and the ethical conduct of research and scholarship.
References: When applying for tenure-track positions, we utilize Interfolio’s Dossier feature to collect confidential letters of recommendation. Please follow the prompts and provide the names and contact information of three references whom we can contact regarding your application.