南京大学地理与海洋科学学院2024年度准聘长聘岗位招聘公告

We currently have six tenure-track position openings in four disciplines, including physical geography, human geography, geographic information science and marine science. These positions are offered at the rank of tenure-track assistant professor. Highly qualified applicants may apply for higher rank positions, including tenure-track associate professor and tenured positions, pending on negotiations with SGOS and Nanjing University. Details of these position opening are listed below.

(1) Human geography

We seek applicants with one of the following areas of expertise: natural resource management and sustainable development, territorial planning and governance, tourism geography, economic geography, African geography, and geopolitics. Successful applicants will conduct teaching and research activities in human geography. Strong educational and research background in geography, urban and rural planning, geographic information science are preferred for this positions.

(2) Marine geoscience

We seek applicants with one of the following areas of expertise: ocean dynamic process, coastal-ocean material circulations, multi-layered interactions and coastal ocean evolution. Successful applicants will conduct teaching and research activities in coastal ocean multi-scale material transport processes, coastal ocean key material cycles and ecological environmental effects under the influence of climate change and human activities, and coastal ocean system evolution under the multi-layered coupling. A strong educational and research background in geography, physical oceanography, shallow sea dynamics, Earth system science are preferred for this positions.

(3) Physical geography

We seek applicants with one of the following areas of expertise: environmental DNA, microbial ecology, soil ecology, tree rings, and hydrology/hydroclimatology, biogeography. Successful applicants will conduct teaching and research activities in environmental DNA, biological big data and other technologies to explore microbial communities and their relationship with the environment, temporal and spatial distribution pattern of microbial diversity, tree rings, terrestrial hydrological processes, climate change and its impacts, eco-hydrological processes and simulation. Interdisciplinary backgrounds in geography, microbiology, ecology and bioinformatics statistics, hydrology, atmospheric science, data science are preferred for this positions.

(4) Geographic information science

We seek applicants with one of the following areas of expertise: cartography, geographic observation and simulation, digital territorial planning and management, and geographic big data and spatial intelligence. Successful applicants will conduct teaching and research activities in cartography, geographic big data aggregation and fusion, intelligent geospatial information processing and analysis, large geographical models, geographical data visualization and analysis, and smart city theory and methods. A strong educational and research background in geography, geographic information science, remote sensing, computer science, and artificial intelligence are preferred for this positions.