The Board of Electors to the Herchel Smith Professorship of Physics invite applications for this Professorship from persons whose work falls within the general field of the Physics of Medicine, to take up appointment on 1 October 2008 or as soon as possible thereafter.
The appointment will be subject to the Statutes and Ordinances of the University.
The Professorship has been made possible through the generosity of the late Dr Herchel Smith. The person filling this chair will lead the many interdisciplinary activities in the general area of the Physics of Medicine currently being developed in the Cavendish Laboratory in collaboration with the School of Clinical Medicine, and lead the programme in new directions.
It is expected that the primary base will be the new Physics of Medicine Building at the Cavendish Laboratory, but with involvement in the programme of the School of Clinical Medicine, as described above.
Further information may be obtained from the Academic Secretary, University Offices, The Old Schools, Cambridge, CB2 1TT (email 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 form PD18 with details of two referees, so as to reach him no later than Friday, 6 June 2008.
Informal enquiries may be made to Professor Peter Littlewood, Department of Physics (tel. 01223 337429, email hod@phy.cam.ac.uk) and to Professor Patrick Sissons (tel. 01223 336738, email regius@medschl.cam.ac.uk). Information concerning the Physics Department and its teaching and research programmes may be obtained from its website (http://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/) and the Physics of Medicine initiative (http://www.pom.cam.ac.uk/). Information concerning the School of Clinical Medicine and its teaching and research programmes may be obtained from its website (http://www.medschl.cam.ac.uk/).
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