Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour

Teaching-Track Positions - Assistant Professor

The Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour (PNB) and the Life Sciences Program at McMaster University invite applications for two Teaching-track Faculty positions at the Assistant Professor level, to begin on July 1, 2013. The primary duties of both teaching-track positions will be to teach and mentor undergraduate students in the PNB and the Life Sciences programs. Courses in PNB would be in such areas as experimental design, statistics, animal behaviour, fundamentals of neuroscience, clinical neuroscience, and sensation and perception. Courses in Life Sciences would be in the area of neural communication and information processing, neurobiological mechanisms of behaviour, behaviour processes, and behavioural and evolutionary ecology.

Candidates should have a Ph.D. in Psychology, Neuroscience, Biology, or other related Life Science discipline, as well as experience teaching undergraduate students. Please send a curriculum vitae, statement of teaching interests, supporting documents relevant to teaching credentials and 3 letters of reference to:

PNB/Life Science Search Committee
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour
McMaster University
1280 Main Street West
Hamilton, Ontario
Canada L8S 4K1

Materials may be sent as e-mail attachments in pdf format to pnb@mcmaster.ca. Deadline for receipt of the application is February 15, 2013.

Posted: November 27, 2012