Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering

June 20, 2019

Submission deadline extended to July 25, 2019

The Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto invites applications for nomination to a Canada Research Chair, Tier 1. Applicants must be must be tenure-stream faculty members with a budgetary appointment in one of the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering or Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry. The Faculty expects to select up to three (3) Canada Research Chair, Tier 1, nominees in this round.

Tier 1 Chairs are for outstanding established scholars. To meet the criteria of the program, nominees must be outstanding and innovative world-class researchers whose accomplishments have made a major impact in their fields; be recognized internationally as leaders in their fields; have superior records of attracting and supervising graduate students and postdoctoral fellows (taking into account different practices in the relevant field or discipline) and, as Chairholders, be expected to attract, develop and retain excellent trainees, students and future researchers; and be proposing an original, innovative research program of the highest quality.

Applications should include 1) a letter of interest describing your qualifications and research plans for the position; and 2) a curriculum vitae. Please forward all materials to vdr@engineering.utoronto.ca by the extended deadline of July 25, 2019.

For the letter of interest, applicants are asked to present a summary of their qualifications by addressing CRC Tier 1 Chair selection criteria, namely:

• Outstanding and innovative world-class researchers whose accomplishments have made a major impact in their fields;
• recognized internationally as leaders in their fields;
• superior records of attracting and supervising graduate students and postdoctoral fellows (taking into account different practices in the relevant field or discipline) and, as chairholders, expected to attract, develop and retain excellent trainees, students and future researchers; and
• proposing an original, innovative research program of the highest quality.

Applicants are encouraged to please limit their letters of interest preferably to 3 pages.

Further information about this opportunity, please contact Elaine Footman, Faculty Research Coordinator, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering vdr@engineering.utoronto.ca. Details on the nomination and eligibility criteria may be found here. For more information about the CRC nomination process at the University of Toronto, contact Judith Chadwick, Assistant Vice-President, Research Services – crc@utoronto.ca or visit www.research.utoronto.ca/crc.

The University recognizes that scholars have varying career paths and that career interruptions due to personal circumstances can be part of an excellent academic record. Nomination committee members have been instructed to give careful consideration to, and be sensitive to the impact of, career interruptions in their assessments.

The University of Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from racialized persons/persons of colour, women, Indigenous/Aboriginal People of North America, persons with disabilities, LGBTQ persons, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas.

The University is committed to the principles of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). As such, we strive to make our assessment and selection processes as accessible as possible, and provide accommodations as required for applicants with disabilities. Requests for workplace accommodations and related issues can be addressed to the office of Health & Wellbeing Programs and Services.

The Canada Research Chairs Program requires institutions to collect self-identification data from all applicants, following the program’s best practices. This data is important to the University’s ability to ensure that researchers from diverse groups are able to benefit from participation in the program. All applicants to this CRC opportunity are required to complete the University of Toronto’s Employment Equity Survey. Applicants are encouraged to self-identify in any of the groups where applicable. While completion of the survey is required, providing answers to the individual survey questions is voluntary, and applicants can log a response indicating that they decline the survey. If you have already completed the survey, thank you; your responses will be included in the aggregated results. Applicants who have not completed the survey will not be considered for this CRC opportunity.

Any information directly related to you is confidential and cannot be accessed by search committees or human resources staff. Aggregated and anonymized data regarding the applicant pool will be reported only to the chair of the selection committee, the committee’s equity advisor, and a small number of staff members in the Division of the Vice-President, Research and Innovation, for purposes of program administration and to meet reporting requirements.