United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) is a flagship national university in the United Arab Emirates founded in 1976, located in Al-Ain, a beautiful 4,000 years old town nestled in an oasis
The university is WASC accredited and enrolls approximately 14,000 students and offers a full range of accredited, high-quality graduate and undergraduate programs through nine Colleges in various disciplines. With a distinguished international faculty, state-of-the art new campus, and full range of student support services, UAEU offers a living-learning environment that is unmatched in the UAE and the region.
The Department of Integrative Agriculture seeks to fill this position in Fisheries and Marine Science at the level of Assistant/ Associate Professor with primary research and secondary teaching responsibilities. This position focuses on Marine and Fisheries resource management, production and conservation.
Responsabilities
The Department of Integrative Agriculture seeks to fill this position in Fisheries and Marine Science at the level of Assistant/ Associate Professor with primary research and secondary teaching responsibilities. This position focuses on Marine and Fisheries resource management, production and conservation.
The college envisions educating, training and conducting frontier research to advance commercial fisheries, recreational fisheries, and aquaculture systems. The successful candidate must develop a competitive and internationally visible research program with emphasis on sustainable management of fisheries while preserving optimal marine ecosystem for advancing the UAE fishery industry. Assessing climate change and its current/future impact on costal productivity will be highly encouraged. The incumbent should be able to obtain/attract extramural funding through individual and collaborative efforts. The candidate must develop and teach undergraduate and graduate courses in areas of emphases described above, supervise M.S. and Ph.D. students, and building a strong outreach program with the relevant government organizations/institutes, private sector and agricultural industry.
Requirements
Candidate must hold a PhD degree in Fisheries or Marine Sciences, or closely related field and must have documented research experience in marine resource management, and development of sustainable harvesting practices for commercial fisheries stocks. Post-doctoral experience with a scholarly emphasis on freshwater fish ecology, aquaculture, or quantitative fishery science is desired. Evidence of research excellence, ability to develop and effectively teach undergraduate and graduate courses is expected.
Benefits
Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. UAEU offers excellent benefits in the form of tax-free salary, housing, health benefits, education allowance for children, paid summer break, and return ticket for the family once a year to country of permanent residence.
Organisation
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY
Location
Research field
Deadline
22th February 2023
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