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Faculty recruitment

Viviana I. Risca

Viviana I. Risca

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Rockefeller’s culture is built on genuine dedication to promoting scientific discovery. The university’s supportive, tight-knit community inspires and empowers junior faculty to take risks in pursuing impactful and creative work.

Jeremy Rock portrait

Jeremy M. Rock

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Rockefeller provides incredible support to its faculty, enabling us to tackle some of the most important questions in our respective disciplines. I find this environment to be inspiring and cannot imagine a better place than Rockefeller to start my lab.

Li Zhao portrait

Li Zhao

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

The high quality sciences, state-of-the-art facilities, and the creative colleagues make this a unique place for junior faculty to thrive. Rockefeller is a wonderful place for me to start innovative lines of research.

Due to the COVID-19 crisis and its widespread effects, our Faculty Open Search has been suspended for the 2020-21 cycle. Please check back in August 2021 for updates.

Apply for a tenure-track faculty position at The Rockefeller University
 
We are dedicated to recruiting the most brilliant biomedical research scientists, allowing them to choose their scientific pursuits, providing them with comprehensive support, and surrounding them with collaborative and energetic colleagues who are leaders in their fields. We conduct open searches across all fields of biomedical and clinical research.
 
Our structure
Our institution is small, dynamic, and designed to support and stimulate science, with an administration and staff entirely committed to meeting the needs of our scientists and eliminating distractions from their research. There are no mandatory teaching or administrative responsibilities, and no departments or hierarchical restrictions.
 
Our culture
Our dedication to excellence gives Rockefeller scientists a significant advantage as they work across disciplines and share knowledge, driving one another to pursue big ideas and achieve transformational discoveries. This strong support fosters a culture with an extremely dedicated and satisfied faculty, many of whom have long associations with the university.
 
Our commitment
We are committed to recruiting and supporting a diverse scientific community and seek to create a faculty of individuals from different backgrounds with a wide range of perspectives and experiences, including from all races, nationalities, ethnicities, religions, genders, sexual orientations, identities, abilities, ages, military and socioeconomic status, and more. We encourage anyone who is interested to apply for a faculty position at Rockefeller.
 
Our community
We place a high emphasis on quality of life for our scientists, enabling them to focus deeply on their research by providing childcare, mortgage and housing support, health and wellness services, and other resources to help navigate the many layers of an academic life.

    Erich Jarvis in lab with students

    Science at Rockefeller

    Rockefeller faculty receive a generous start-up package including unrestricted research funding and ongoing laboratory support. Heads of labs benefit from access to high-quality, subsidized research core services, and from a highly collaborative culture. Our outstanding graduate students are fully supported by the University; a high percentage of these students work and train in the labs of assistant and associate professors.

    Although new Rockefeller faculty are given tremendous independence and flexibility, they also receive mentorship and support from their more senior colleagues. A flexible promotion schedule allows up to 12 years before tenure review, and the tenure clock may be stopped for personal or family reasons.

    Li Zhao and lab member

    Encouraging collaboration

    Rockefeller offers ample opportunity for scientists to collaborate across fields of study. Retreats, seminars, symposia, and other events foster an exchange of ideas that often leads to fruitful research partnerships. By uniting scientists and labs with common interests, we encourage research at the interfaces between fields of study, yielding creative approaches to biomedical challenges.

    Renovation of Child and Family Center

    Generous benefits

    Heads of Laboratory receive a comprehensive benefits package, including:

    Health benefits
    On-campus childcare
    Tuition assistance program
    Manhattan housing and parking
    Mortgage assistance program
    Retirement plans

    State-of-the-art research space

    In the past decade, Rockefeller has invested more than $2 billion in new facilities, scientific equipment, faculty recruitment, and research support. Our River Campus expansion, completed in 2019, added two acres and over 100,000 square feet of state-of-the-art lab space to our urban campus.

    Amy E. Shyer

    Amy E. Shyer, Ph.D.

    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

    I’m excited to be at an institution that has a track record for supporting scientists who set their sights on deep and complex problems with broad implications for biology.

    FACTS ABOUT OUR WORK

    26

    Nobel prizes

    70

    Research labs

    25

    Lasker awards

    14

    New labs since 2012

    Contact

    The Rockefeller University is a very diverse community and we strongly encourage applications from individuals from racial and ethnic groups that are underrepresented in biomedical science.

    As an equal opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

    The University provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities who can perform the essential functions for the position. If you require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and/or hiring process, please notify Human Resources by calling 212-327-8300 or emailing hris@rockefeller.edu.

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