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Doctoral degree in Physics with specialization in one of the following areas: Experimental/Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics; Experimental/Computational High Energy Physics; Astrophysics/Astronomy/Planetary Sciences; Medical Physics; Physics Education; Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The successful candidate will be expected to teach and develop undergraduate and graduate level courses of the Department of Physics; also, to serve as a research advisor for undergraduate and graduate students; and to establish a strong, independent, externally funded research program that supports one or more of the Department’s areas of interest. This designation has an academic task equivalent to 12 credit/hours that are distributed between teaching, research and institutional services for 37.5 hours a week. This distribution of hours could be adjusted to the department’s needs, demands and availability of the faculty: • 12 hours weekly direct contact with students. • 15 hours of academic activities including research, class preparation, exam grading, and office work. • 6 hours of individual attention to your students. • 4 ½ hours to attend departmental, faculty and committee meetings, development of new courses, organization of short courses and seminars, participation and filing of research proposals with institutional funds or external funds and publication of articles in prestigious journals. • The distribution of the academic load may vary depending on the success in the development of research projects. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae and a letter summarizing research and teaching goals, and arrange to have three (3) letters of recommendation sent to: Letters or documents sent by e-mail must be directed to hector.mendez4@upr.edu. To learn more about the Department of Physics at UPRM, please visit http://www.uprm.edu/fisica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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