The Vice Chancellor for Research invites nominations (including self-nominations) for the position of Faculty Director of the Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute at Berkeley (Kavli ENSI). This position offers the opportunity to help steer Kavli ENSI endowment resources for strategic investment and foster conversations that can lead to new multidisciplinary avenues of research.
We invite nominations of tenured Berkeley faculty who are highly qualified and motivated to assume this position. The candidate should have a well-established research and professional reputation in nanoscience research, leadership and administrative abilities, and the capacity and willingness to raise funds from competitive grant programs, corporate, and philanthropic sources. This appointment is for an initial five-year term, with the possibility of renewal for a second five-year term. The position provides no monetary compensation, but the director will have the chance to lead and promote research opportunities for faculty. To coincide with our academic calendar, the anticipated start date is either January 1, 2019 (preferred) or July 1, 2019.
Founded in 2013 with the support of the Kavli Foundation as a joint venture between UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Kavli ENSI is a fully self-supporting Institute with programs focused around six themes:
- Artificial Energy Conversion and Circuits
- Chemical Transformation and Catalysis
- Nanoscale Control of Energy Flow
- Nanoscale Motors
- Thermal Energy and Circuitry
- Energy Systems Design
The Kavli Institute includes 18 principal investigators from a diverse set of backgrounds, and approximately 250 graduate students and postdoctoral scholars involved in the program. The graduate students and postdoctoral scholars facilitate collaborations and assist PIs in support of excellent research in the energy nanosciences; they also propel this work through their engagement.
The member of the faculty selected to serve as Director should have the leadership qualities to foster innovative research among faculty and students, promote outreach, and sustain and expand financial resources to support existing and new research programs, shared infrastructure, and activities. They should maintain an active research program in nanoscience and may have a primary appointment with any of the many relevant departments on campus.
Please submit nominations by completing this online nomination form as soon as possible and no later than October 10, 2018. Self-nominations are welcome. Upon receipt of nominations, the appointed search advisory committee will select the top nominees to solicit interest in becoming a formal candidate. After conducting candidate interviews and reviewing other supporting materials, the search advisory committee will forward the most competitive candidates to the Vice Chancellor for Research for final selection.
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Search Advisory Committee
Michael Crommie (Chair)
Constance Chang-Hasnain
Ting Xu
Irfan Siddiqi
Naomi Ginsberg