Assistant Professor - Climate Science

Job No: 528792

Position Type: Faculty Full Time

Campus: UMass Boston

Department: SFE - Dean's Office

Pay Grade: 03

Date opened: 21 Oct 2025 Eastern Daylight Time

The School for the Environment (SFE) at the University of Massachusetts Boston (UMB) invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Climate Science to begin September 1, 2026. We seek an innovative scientist with a strong Earth sciences background and broad training in the mathematical, physical, or engineering sciences, whose work advances understanding of climate processes and informs strategies for adaptation.

Areas of research interest include climate modeling; climate impacts on Earth/environmental system functions; extremes, feedbacks, and nonlinear processes driving climate risks; climate change impacts on ecosystems, infrastructure, or communities; and quantitative and computational approaches (e.g., data analytics, AI) applied to climate challenges. We are interested in candidates who are currently working, or seek to work, across disciplines and in partnership with communities to help address the challenges of climate change.

SFE’s mission is to examine and explore diverse challenges in the natural, built, and social environments and their intersections. Using transdisciplinary and equity‑informed approaches to research, teaching, and action, we expand environmental knowledge and understanding and create cutting‑edge solutions to environmental and social problems in Boston and beyond. The successful candidate will develop strong interactions with SFE faculty and students and will have opportunities to collaborate with UMass Boston’s diverse social and environmental institutes, including the Stone Living Lab, Urban Harbors Institute (UHI), Sustainable Solutions Lab (SSL), and Mass Bays National Estuary Partnership.

These institutes and faculty within the School for the Environment have strong connections to a host of local, state, and national environmental organizations and are eager to collaborate on impactful research with funding from government agencies such as NSF, EPA, NIH, NASA, and NOAA, among other sources of public and private funding. This position is part of SFE’s three‑year hiring initiative and will contribute to the university’s Grand Scholarly Challenges by collaborating with diverse faculty across the university on the themes of “Climate Equity and Coastal Urban Areas” and “Advancing a Just Society.”

UMass Boston is an urban public research university with a teaching soul that has an impact both locally and globally. We are the third most diverse university in the country, with more than 60% of our undergraduate students coming from minoritized communities and groups, and over half of our students being first in their families to attend a college or university.

Our students bring robust perspectives and are engaged in diverse life experiences, which we recognize and appreciate in teaching and research.

The successful candidate will develop and maintain an externally funded research group in the field of climate science that involves undergraduate and graduate students.

The successful candidate will be expected to teach and mentor students across the Environmental Studies and Sustainability BA and Environmental Science BS, MS, and PhD programs. The candidate is encouraged to develop new courses related to their field for advancing the curriculum at undergraduate and graduate levels. The candidate will serve on committees within the university and develop strong engaged scholarship with their scientific community.

The University of Massachusetts Boston and the School for the Environment are committed to supporting junior faculty through formal mentoring, grant‑writing workshops, and opportunities for interdisciplinary research collaboration.

• Cover letter (2 page maximum)
• Curriculum Vitae
• Research Statement (3 page maximum)
• Teaching Statement (2 page maximum)
• Contact information of three academic references

For full consideration by the SFE Search Committee, applications should be received via the UMB Employment Portal…