Organic Chemistry Position Available
Tenure Track
Associate or Full Professor
The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at George Mason University invites applications from outstanding candidates for a mid career tenure track faculty position in synthetic organic chemistry beginning Fall 2012. Candidates must have a Ph.D. and an established record of funding in a biomedical area. The successful candidate should be able and willing to collaborate with one or more of our well-established biosciences programs that include Biochemistry, the Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine (CAPMM), Center for Biomedical Genomics (CBMG), MicroBiome Analysis Center, and the National Center for Biodefense and Infectious Diseases (NCBID) on our Prince William campus. Please submit a cover letter, resume including funding record, and research statement to https://jobs.gmu.edu, Position F5084z. Separately have 3 reference letters sent to: Faculty Search Committee, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry MSN 3E2, George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030. Application review will commence on December 15, 2011, and continue until the position is filled. AA/EO Employer.
Please see A Few Notes on the Application Process below.
George Mason University has grown tremendously in the last two decades in response to the needs of an expanding, highly educated Northern Virginia population, and continues to evolve as it strives to set the highest of standards for its >32,000 students. GMU has emerged as a major university in the nation and is presently the largest university in Virginia in terms of total number of students, with four campuses located in Northern Virginia about 25 miles west of Washington, D.C. Additional information about the University can be found at Resources for Visitors.
The faculty of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry number 19, including 14 in the tenure stream. All major research areas are represented: organic, inorganic, physical, analytical, and environmental chemistry, and biochemistry. The department offers the Ph.D. in Chemistry and Biochemistry, an M.S. in Chemistry, and an accelerated 5-year B.S.-M.S. degree. The department offers both B.S. and B.A. degrees in chemistry as well as biochemistry concentrations in both degree programs. The department’s B.S. degree is certified by the American Chemical Society and graduates of the department have been admitted to Ph.D. programs at distinguished schools such as Princeton University, Johns Hopkins University, and U.C. Berkeley. Additional graduates continue their education at medical and dental schools. The department’s enrollment is rapidly increasing and has reached a Fall 2011 total of 22 Ph.D., 45 M.S., and 345 chemistry bachelor’s candidates. The department is one of twelve physical, biological, mathematical, and computational departments in the GMU College of Science.
The department maintains many instruments for the use of faculty, postdoctoral researchers, and students. The GMU NMR Center houses two solution phase instruments: a Bruker DRX 400 with 5 probes and a Bruker DPX 300 with 2 probes. Other instruments include FTIRs and two diode array UV-VIS spectrophotometers, an inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometer (ICP-AES), a luminescence spectrophotometer, a BioRad Biologic Duoflow liquid chromatography system, gas chromatographs, HPLCs, an ISCO CombiFlash preparative liquid chromatograph, an X-ray photoelectron/Auger electron spectroscopy instrument, a research grade atomic absorption spectrophotometer, an atomic fluorescence spectrometer, voltammetric and polarographic analyzers, computerized electrochemistry systems, preparative and ultracentrifuges, and a Parr solution calorimeter. The department also has access to equipment housed in the University’s Shared Research Instrumentation Facility (SRIF). This facility maintains an IT-TOF-LCMS, a GC with electron capture detector, a GC/mass spectrometer, an electrospray LC-MS, a SELDI-TOF MS, HPLC systems, a capillary electrophoresis instrument, and a scanning electron microscope.
The George Mason University Center for Clean Water and Sustainable Technologies is housed within the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. The mission of this Center is to find ways to detect and remove undesirable substances from drinking water, in ways which are long term, for the benefit of the entire population, and especially for developing countries with severe potable water problems. The director of the Center is Dr. Abul Hussam.
The GMU library system provides, free of charge to faculty, staff, and students, electronic access to SciFinder, Web of Science, and 54 other major Chemistry/Biochemistry Databases. Many/most journals are available electronically.
A Few Notes on the Application Process
Applicants must submit all materials electronically except the letters of recommendation. The electronic submissions (cover letter, resume including funding record, and research statement) go to https://jobs.gmu.edu, Position Number F5084z. Submit the research statement to the field labeled “Other Doc”. The letters of recommendation should be sent directly by the writers in hard copy to the following address:
Faculty Search Committee
Dept of Chemistry and Biochemistry MSN 3E2
George Mason University
4400 University Dr
Fairfax VA 22030
Review of applications will begin on December 15, 2011 and continue until the position is filled.
