Tenure-Track: Assistant Professor, Poultry Nutrition

The Department of Poultry Science, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Texas A&M University invites applications for one full-time, tenure track position with a 9-month academic appointment beginning Spring 2025. Applicants will be considered for the faculty title of Assistant Professor depending on qualifications. This tenure track position will be a 9-month appointment with a 60% Research/Graduate mentoring, 30% Teaching and 10% Service expectation. The selected candidate will focus their research program on one or a combination of areas related to Poultry Nutrition, including but not limited to programs in broiler, broiler breeder, layer, or turkey nutrition, feed processing, growth biology, climate-smart agriculture and gastrointestinal nutrient digestibility. This position will support current AgriLife strategic priorities for achieving resilience in food systems and the integration of basic and applied research within the nexus of food and health. The candidate’s past and/or future research interests should be germane to the broad area of poultry nutrition, and this should be reflected in the research and scholarship emerging from the lab.

This position is part of a larger hiring initiative in the Department of Poultry Science, and the selected candidate will be expected to establish a new program that complements the Department’s core emphases on animal health, precision nutrition, sustainability, and animal genomics. The selected candidate will be expected to develop a strong extramurally funded program and mentor graduate and undergraduate students. The candidate will also be expected to teach courses in fundamental poultry nutrition and diet formulation as part of the required UG and GR curricula and support the land grant mission of Texas A&M University. In addition, departmental, college, and university committee service will be expected.

Required Qualifications: Ph.D. in Nutrition from an accredited institution in Poultry Science, Animal Science, Nutrition, or closely related disciplines, and demonstrated evidence of expertise, scholarship, and mentoring experience in a relevant domain.

Preferred Qualifications: Atleast two years of post-PhD experience in a research position, with evidence of grantsmanship, teaching/mentoring experience, and a roadmap of future research over the decade. Demonstrated ability to use modeling approaches to describe or estimate nutritionally dependent processes or requirements. Demonstrated record of communicating research through different academic and non-academic channels. Demonstrated record of working with people of different backgrounds.

Applications will be accepted at apply.interfolio.com/147922. Interested candidates must submit a Cover letter, CV, a Personal statement to include philosophy and plans for research, teaching and service, as applicable, and a list of up to five references (including both current and past supervisors). Review of applications will begin on July 15, 2024, and remain open until a suitable candidate has been identified. The position has an anticipated start date of January 1, 2025. Questions may be directed to Dr. Rosemary Walzem (rosemary.walzem@ag.tamu.edu).