• Tenure-Track: Assistant Professor, Poultry…

    Texas A&M University - Faculty (College Station, TX)


    Tenure-Track: Assistant Professor, Poultry Nutrition Poultry Science

     

    Location College Station

     

    Open Date 6/2/2025

     

    Position ID 163272

    Description

    The Department of Poultry Science, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Texas A&M University, invites applications for one full-time, tenure-track faculty position with a 9-month academic appointment beginning January 2, 2026. Applicants will be considered for the faculty title of Assistant Professor, depending on qualifications. The expected breakdown of effort is 60% research and graduate mentoring, 30% teaching, and 10% service. The selected candidate will focus their research program on one or a combination of areas related to Poultry Nutrition, including but not limited to: programs in broiler, broiler breeder, layer, or turkey nutrition, feed processing, growth biology, climate-smart agriculture, and gastrointestinal nutrient digestibility. This position will support current AgriLife strategic priorities for achieving resilience in food systems and integrating basic and applied research within the nexus of food and health. The candidate’s past and/or future research interests should be germane to the broad area of poultry nutrition, and this should be reflected in the research and scholarship emerging from the lab.

    Qualifications

    Required Qualifications: Ph.D. in Nutrition from an accredited institution in Poultry Science, Animal Science, Nutrition, or closely related disciplines, and demonstrated evidence of expertise, scholarship, and mentoring experience in a relevant domain.

     

    Preferred Qualifications: At least two years of post-PhD experience in a research position, with evidence of grantsmanship, teaching/mentoring experience, and a roadmap of future research over the decade. Demonstrated ability to use modeling approaches to describe or estimate nutritionally dependent processes or requirements. Demonstrated record of communicating research through different academic and non-academic channels. Demonstrated record of working with people of various backgrounds.

    Application Instructions

    Interested candidates must submit: a cover letter, CV, a personal statement to include philosophy and plans for research, teaching, and service, and a list of five professional references (including both current and past supervisors) at apply.interfolio.com/168426. Review of applications will begin on June 20, 2025, and remain open until a suitable candidate has been identified. Questions may be directed to Dr. Rosemary Walzem ( [email protected] ).