The Department of Marine Biology, College of Marine Sciences & Maritime Studies at Texas A&M University located at the Galveston campus is hiring one full-time, tenure-track faculty position with a 9-month academic appointment beginning August 1, 2025. Applicants will be considered for the faculty title of Assistant Professor.
We seek to fill a tenure-track faculty position with a marine biologist whose research focuses on climate change and the marine environment. The area of research is open, and any level of organization (from subcellular to organismal to ecosystems) will be considered. A suitable applicant for this position will complement the existing expertise in the department and will have the potential for collaborations extending to other departments on the Galveston and College Station campuses, e.g., the Departments of Marine and Coastal Environmental Science, Oceanography, Ecology and Conservation Biology, or Biology.
The successful candidate will enhance the department and university’s teaching and research missions and will be expected to 1) develop an extramurally-funded and productive research program that is sustainable and identifiable to the person filling this position. The program will support undergraduate research scholars, graduate students, and postdocs; 2) Teach in the department’s undergraduate curricula and offer a graduate class specific to the person’s expertise, with a teaching load of one course per semester (fall, spring); 3) Provide service to the department and the college through committee memberships, while remaining engaged with discipline-specific scientific activities.
Texas A&M University at Galveston is the dedicated marine and maritime branch campus of Texas A&M University. The campus houses several institutions that are critical contributors to Texas A&M’s land-, sea-, and space-grant mission and drive the development of the blue economy on the Gulf Coast through education, innovation, scholarship, and research.
Home to the Texas A&M College of Marine Sciences & Maritime Studies (marine.tamu.edu), students can earn undergraduate and graduate degrees in marine sciences, business, blue humanities, marine engineering and maritime transportation. Students may also pursue select Galveston-specific Texas A&M College of Engineering degrees, including computer science, ocean engineering, and interdisciplinary engineering.
Texas A&M-Galveston is also home to the Texas A&M Maritime Academy, one of six state maritime academies in the U.S. and the only one embedded within a Tier I research institution. Offering hands-on training to over 400 cadets annually, the academy prepares students to earn a U.S. Coast Guard License and serve as maritime professionals, afloat and ashore, or enter military service upon graduation.
Ideally situated in Galveston Bay, the island campus is surrounded by marine life, estuarine and ocean ecosystems, and one of the largest maritime industrial hubs in the world, allowing Galveston Aggies to live, learn and work in the heart of the industries they will soon serve. Whether their careers take them shoreside or on the water, Aggies are ready for anything above, on, and below the waves.
Texas A&M University is committed to enriching the learning and working environments for all visitors, students, faculty, and staff, which is vital to accomplishing our mission and living our core values.