Associate/Full Professor, Director of the Energy, Policy, and Innovation Center (EPICenter)
Company: Georgia Tech
Location: Atlanta
Posted on: April 16, 2024
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About Us
OverviewGeorgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources,
collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to
building an outstanding and diverse community of learning,
discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose
values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our .
These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and
experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community,
and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to
promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting
faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.About Georgia
TechGeorgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university
situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with
numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more
than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate,
and executive programs in engineering, computing, science,
business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty
attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year
in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial
intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience,
and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20
universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among
institutions without a medical school. Georgia Tech's Mission And
ValuesGeorgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance
technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine
key values that are foundational to everything we do: 1. Students
are our top priority. 2. We strive for excellence. 3. We thrive on
diversity. 4. We celebrate collaboration. 5. We champion
innovation. 6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression. 7.
We nurture the wellbeing of our community. 8. We act ethically. 9.
We are responsible stewards. Over the next decade, Georgia Tech
will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading
technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly
committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in
addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and
opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible;
and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds
ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human
impact. About Ivan Allen College Of Liberal ArtsEstablished in
1990, the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts is a pioneer of
liberal arts education and research at the nexus of the technical
and human sciences. The academic programs are internationally
acclaimed as models for liberal arts education in a technological
age. Founded with the principles of its namesake, former Atlanta
Mayor Ivan Allen Jr., the College of Liberal Arts believes in the
power of transformative urban leadership that is rooted in courage,
compassion, and human and social justice. The Ivan Allen College of
Liberal Arts exemplifies Mayor Allen's legacy through its
cross-disciplinary teaching, research, and service. In a
research-intensive environment, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
faculty and students examine a wide range of social and humanistic
issues, defining their impact on society, culture, and policy, and
exploring solutions in the public interest. As artificial
intelligence continues to evolve, the Ivan Allen College of Liberal
Arts is working to reinforce the importance of humanity, ethics,
and artistic expression. The Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
uses a humanistic lens to identify problems, imagine solutions, and
craft interventions, specializing in sustainability, urban
research, healthcare policy and economics, and global security. The
Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts is composed of Georgia Tech's
ROTC units and six schools: Economics; History and Sociology;
Literature, Media, and Communication; Modern Languages; Public
Policy; and the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs.Energy,
Policy, and Innovation Center (EPICenter) was established to
leverage all of Georgia Tech for the development of rigorous and
fact-based analyses, with strong analytical foundations, delivered
in a time frame that is helpful to inform decisionmakers. Moreover,
global grand challenges in climate change and energy must be
addressed locally, tailored to the distinctive energy resource mix,
industries, demographics, regulatory framework, and climate of a
given region. EPICenter is an affiliated center, with its own $20M
endowment, of the Strategic Energy Institute at Georgia Tech, which
serves as a 'systems integrator' for the 300+ faculty working in
energy, aimed at such regionally contextualized studies. Georgia
Tech has broad and deep expertise across the whole energy value
chain, including power generation, renewables, electric grid,
transportation, buildings, cybersecurity, smart cities, energy
storage, energy geopolitics, energy economics, energy policy, to
name a few. Finally, while contributing regionally, EPICenter
strives to leverage its analytical stature to become a national and
global leader for regional ecosystem development.The center was
established to deploy capabilities across Georgia Tech,
particularly its deep strengths in technology and research, toward
regional energy issues with national and international impact - in
particular, to deploy Georgia Tech's significant energy research
strengths towards current issues facing society, and to guide
stakeholders in thinking through complex, coupled social and
technological energy issues. The center can be thought of as part
'think tank', part 'extension service', and part 'applied research
institute'. Potential center activities include, but are not
limited to:
Location
Atlanta, GA
Job Summary
The at the invites applications for an Associate or Full Professor
to serve as Director of the , an interdisciplinary center reporting
through the within the Office of the . Candidates are expected to
demonstrate an exceptional commitment to the teaching of
students.The successful candidate will have an academic home in one
of the academic schools in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
related to the candidate's research profile and teaching expertise.
Our faculty and students examine a wide range of social and
humanistic issues, and numerous faculty focus their research and
scholarship on energy markets, the energy transition, and the
intersection of energy and climate, public health, and
environmental health. Energy, climate, and environmental policy and
economics are areas of research and academic specialization in both
the and the . The faculty of the School of Public Policy lead the
multidisciplinary , and the School of Economics offers a . Faculty
in the focus their research on global, strategic, comparative, and
institutional dimensions to energy and environmental systems,
resilience, and governance issues. Similarly, the School of History
and Sociology focuses on climate resilience and environmental
activism, energy and environment, and food systems.Job
Responsibilities
Required Qualifications
The successful candidate must have a PhD in a relevant field,
including public policy, economics, political science, sociology,
or other relevant social sciences. The candidate must demonstrate
strong expertise related to energy policy and innovation. Direct or
collaborative experience with a research organization or think tank
is required, as well as success in securing external funding
related to energy issues in interdisciplinary teams.
Preferred Qualifications
Administrative Criteria
Required Documents to Attach
Applicants should submit:1. a letter of application describing
research interests, teaching interests, and
leadership/advising/mentoring philosophy, specifically addressing
the following related the vision for the EPICenter:a. Given Georgia
Tech's stature as an elite technological university, what is your
vision for how to run the center that leverages this advantage, but
also extends the Institute's capabilities to serve as a leader and
trusted advisor in guiding stakeholders through complex, coupled
social and technological energy issues?b. Describe your visions for
how you would interface with the academic faculty at GT who may be
focused on longer range or more fundamental aspects of energy?c.
Describe your visions for outreach; what would be the key partners
you would engage with? What would be your strategy for leveraging
the center's endowment to further grow the center?2. a curriculum
vitae; and3. names and contact information for at least three
references. Application materials should be submitted as .PDF
files. Applications will be considered beginning March 1, 2024, but
the search will continue until the position is filled. An earned
doctorate is required by the start of the appointment.
Contact Information
Requests for information may be directed to Mitzi Williams,
Equal Employment Opportunity
The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is an Equal
Employment Opportunity Employer. The University is committed to
maintaining a fair and respectful environment for all. To that end,
and in accordance with federal and state law, Board of Regents
policy, and University policy, Georgia Tech provides equal
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these policies can be found here: Board of Regents Policy Manual -
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