Assistant Professor of Biology

The Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences at Texas Tech University invites applications for a full-time, 9-month, tenure-track, Assistant Professor position of collections-based mammalogy to begin Fall 2026. Applicants from a wide range of mammalogy specializations that utilize natural history collections are invited to apply. Research areas of interest should be able to attract external competitive funding and can include, but are not limited to, evolutionary developmental biology, functional ecology, zoonotic disease evolution and transmission, functional and genome evolution, phylogenomics, and phylogeography.

The successful applicant will be provided a competitive start-up package to develop their research program. Research/collecting/travel funding may also be available for research projects in collaboration with or on behalf of the Museum at Texas Tech University and its Natural Science Research Laboratory. Funding discretion is determined by the Director of the NSRL and the Museum’s Executive Director. Expectations of this position include a teaching rotation that may include Mammalogy, Natural History of the Vertebrates, and the development of an upper‑level course of their choosing.

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Established in 1923, Texas Tech University is a Carnegie R1 (very high research activity) Doctoral/Research‑Extensive, Hispanic Serving, and state‑assisted institution. Located on a beautiful 1,850‑acre campus in Lubbock, a city in West Texas with a growing metropolitan‑area population of over 300,000, the university enrolls over 40,000 students with 33,000 undergraduate and 7,000 graduate students. As the primary research institution in the western two‑thirds of the state, Texas Tech University is home to 10 colleges, the Schools of Law and Veterinary Medicine, and the Graduate School.

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The College of Arts & Sciences is composed of 15 departments, offering a wide variety of courses and programs in the humanities, social and behavioral sciences, mathematics, physical sciences, and natural sciences. The College has more than 10,000 students enrolled representing more than a quarter of the overall Texas Tech University student population while maintaining.

The Department of Biological Sciences (https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below).) is a community of faculty, students, and staff committed to teaching and training students, producing innovative research that advances basic and applied sciences, and engaging with the public. As one of the largest programs within the College of Arts & Sciences, we offer three undergraduate degrees to more than 1,800 students, and three MS degrees and a doctoral degree to approximately 125 graduate student trainees.

Our 46 faculty conduct cutting‑edge research across all levels of biology, spanning from how we as individuals learn and teach about biology to the cells, systems, and organisms that make up our global biosphere. We serve students…