Current Open Positions
Tenured: Department Head and Professor
Texas A&M Materials Science and Engineering has grown quickly in faculty, enrollment, and research, and it needs a Department Head to decide what comes next. This is a full-time, tenured, 11-month appointment at the rank of professor, starting August 1, 2027. The next department head will set priorities with faculty and staff, recruit and mentor researchers at every career stage, and manage the budget behind that work.
The role also reaches outward. It means building research partnerships with industry, government agencies, and national laboratories, pursuing large cross-university projects, and growing support from former students, foundations, and donors for scholarships and endowments.
Candidates should hold a doctorate in materials science and engineering or a closely related field, a national reputation as a scholar, and a record of leading externally funded programs in academia, government, industry, or a national laboratory.
Tenure-Track/Tenured: Assistant Professor or Associate Professor
MSEN is hiring faculty with expertise in synthesizing, processing, and consolidating powder-based metals and ceramics. Priority goes to researchers working on powder synthesis - atomization, milling, and other advanced techniques - along with the science behind heat transfer, solidification, and microstructure evolution in advanced materials.
Selected faculty will join the research cluster at the Center for Alloy and Powder Synthesis (CAPS), MSEN's newly established center for powder-based materials science, backed by growing experimental capabilities. They'll also have the opportunity to work with the NSF Autonomous Robotic Metallurgist Materials Innovation Platform (ARM-MIP).
Tenure-Track: Assistant Professor
MSEN is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Quantum Materials, with a focus on experimental synthesis, growth, and characterization of emergent quantum materials.
The role is part of a university-wide cluster hire in Quantum Sciences and Technology - five faculty positions across engineering and science at Texas A&M, built to connect physics, chemistry, materials science, and electrical engineering around quantum research. Faculty in the cluster will work across departments and institutes, pushing quantum materials research from synthesis and characterization through theory, computation, and device development.
Areas of interest include:
- Experimental synthesis and growth of quantum materials
- Emergent quantum phenomena
- Low-dimensional and correlated quantum materials - twistronics, spintronics, devices
- Defects and solid-state qubits for quantum sensing
- Topological phases and quantum geometry for quantum information science
The role includes teaching, advising, building an independent externally funded research program, and department service.