The Department of Physics and Energy Science, University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS) invites applications for a full-time Tenure-Track Assistant Professor position in experimental Condensed Matter Physics starting August 2025. The successful Assistant Professor candidate will establish a research program with national and international visibility and will actively seek external funding. In addition, the position requires teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level, mentoring students, and providing service to the profession, department, university, and community. The candidate should be able to teach a significant portion of the physics curriculum as demonstrated by courses taken and/or taught, research area topics, relevant publications, and letters of reference.

The department offers Bachelor’s, Master’s and PhD degrees, and has active research programs in several areas of theoretical and experimental physics. For further information visit https://physics.uccs.edu/  and https://biofrontiers.uccs.edu.

Upon request, a successful applicant should be able to provide different forms of teaching evaluations, course evaluations and/or teaching recognitions, research citations, a publication and presentation record (and author position in these), and letters of reference upon request.

For application and further information refer to the CU Carrer Portal (Job Description - Assistant Professor in Physics and Energy Science (33895) (taleo.net))

About University of Colorado Colorado Springs

Welcome to the Department of Physics and Energy Science! We are an enthusiastic department devoted to excellence in both teaching and research. Here are some examples: Half of the faculty have won the campus-wide Teaching Award Two faculty members have been named as President's Teaching Scholars, a system-wide teaching award Three members of the department have won the college and/or campus-wide Research Award We involve undergraduates, graduates and high school students in our research The department has over $5 million of research equipment and state of the art research labs

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