The Board of Electors to the Goldsmiths' Professorship of Materials Science (the senior Chair in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy) invite applications for this Professorship from persons whose work falls within the field of Materials Science, interpreted in the broadest possible terms.
The appointment will be subject to the Statutes and Ordinances of the University.
The Professorship falls vacant on 1 October 2008 but, to aid succession planning, the University hopes to be in a position to make an appointment from 1 October 2006 or as soon as possible thereafter. The successful candidate will hold a fixed-term Professorship on appointment until taking up the Goldsmiths' Professorship of Materials Science on 1 October 2008.
Further information may be obtained from the Academic Secretary, University Offices, The Old Schools, Cambridge, CB2 1TT (e-mail ibise@admin.cam.ac.uk), to whom a letter of application should be sent, together with details of current and future research plans, a curriculum vitae, a publications list, and a completed form PD18 with details of two referees, so as to reach him no later than 9 June 2006.
Informal enquiries may be made to Professor Lindsay Greer, Head of the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy (tel. 01223 334308, e-mail alg13@cam.ac.uk).
The University is committed to equality of opportunity.