SESE Professor and Director

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Description The Opportunity: Arizona State University, a leading public research university rated first in the U.S. for innovation, seeks a dynamic, future-looking director for the School of Earth and Space Exploration, with a concurrent appointment as a tenured Professor. ASU is a unique, internationally recognized institution dedicated to interdisciplinary collaborations, to reimagining university education, and to integrating excellence in research, teaching, and service. Guided by its charter, ASU serves more than 180,000 students on five campuses in the Phoenix metropolitan area, one of the fastest growing urban centers in the nation, and globally through ASU Online. The next director of the School of Earth and Space Exploration will lead one of ASU’s most distinguished units on the flagship Tempe campus. Established in 2006, the school integrates and promotes exploration, discovery, and interdisciplinary collaboration across astrobiology, astrophysics, cosmology, geosciences, and planetary sciences, along with aligned discipline-based education research and technology development. It is home to 56 tenured/tenure track faculty (2 are members of the National Academy, 4 are Rege...