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Posted: 28-Oct-26
Location: United States - Nationwide
Preferred Education: Doctorate
Years of Experience: 2 - 4
Type:
Full Time
Level:
Experienced
Vanderbilt Biomedical Engineering seeks to recruit an Assistant Professor whose scholarship and translational program advance autonomous, sensor-rich, and decision-support-enabled treatment systems for trauma and procedural care in austere, contested, and remote-care environments. The target candidate will develop technologies that extend life-saving intervention capability when expert personnel, infrastructure, and evacuation are limited, conditions central to Large-Scale Combat Operations, Prolonged Casualty Care, and future lunar/exploration-class space missions. Particular emphasis is placed on systems that assess, predict, and actively manage patient physiological status during injury, resuscitation, stabilization, and transport. These challenges are increasingly relevant to distributed national security scenarios and emerging space-health applications, where medical expertise, resources, communications, and evacuation capabilities may all be constrained.
The search will prioritize candidates working at the intersection of medical robotics, soft robotic and advanced actuation technologies for medical applications, autonomous therapeutic delivery systems, autonomy and human-machine teaming, intelligent physiological sensing and monitoring, computational physiology, AI-enabled guidance and decision support, adaptive treatment systems, and novel treatment modality end-effectors, with clear pathways to prototypes, validation, and translation.
Representative focus areas could include: (1) autonomous or semi-autonomous robotic assistance for casualty stabilization and damage-control procedures; (2) soft robotic, compliant, and bioinspired systems for diagnostic, therapeutic, or interventional applications; (3) mixed and augmented reality for guidance, telepresence, and just-in-time training; (4) sensor fusion, physiological-state estimation, and predictive monitoring for adaptive treatment and resuscitation; (5) closed-loop therapeutic systems that autonomously adjust interventions based on real-time physiological feedback; (6) automated treatments and therapeutic systems for austere, contested, remote, or spaceflight conditions; (7) robust algorithms for operations under limited imaging, uncertain anatomy, physiologic instability, or degraded communications; and (8) deployable platforms engineered for size, weight, power, maintainability, and field reliability.
Particularly attractive candidates will develop technologies that advance either intelligent autonomous care systems, novel intervention and therapeutic delivery technologies, or the integration of both approaches, enabling autonomous or semi-autonomous management of hemorrhage, shock, burn and traumatic injury, physiological instability, and other acute conditions encountered when expert clinical care is unavailable. Successful candidates will view the patient as an integral component of the engineered system and develop approaches that explicitly incorporate physiological response, treatment efficacy, and patient-specific adaptation into the design of autonomous and semi-autonomous care technologies.
The target start date is August 2027. Applicants must demonstrate the ability to develop a vibrant, externally funded research program, along with an equal commitment to outstanding teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. VUBME exists at both the scientific and geographic boundary of Vanderbilt's engineering and clinical departments of its renowned medical center, making it an ideal location for engineering research at the interface of technology and medicine. Ideal candidates should possess: a doctorate degree in biomedical engineering or closely related fields of science and engineering, a record of scholarly and research achievement appropriate for their current level, strong record of high-impact research, a commitment to high-quality instruction in biomedical engineering and interest in advancing education programs at both undergraduate and graduate levels, an ability to lead a research program with a dedication to inclusive community building, and an interest in collaboration across engineering and with basic science and clinical disciplines.
Candidates with added research concentrations that complement the department's existing strengths in biophotonics, biomedical imaging, medical devices and interventional systems, constrained resources and microfluidic diagnostics, and neural engineering, therapeutic bioengineering are also of interest.
U.S. citizenship and eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance are desirable qualifications that may facilitate participation in certain federally sponsored research programs, including projects supported by DARPA and the Department of Defense. These qualifications will be considered positively.
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About Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University has a strong institutional commitment to recruiting and retaining an academically and culturally representative community of faculty. Minorities, women, individuals with disabilities, and members of other underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply. Vanderbilt is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. VANDERBILT UNIVERISTY DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING Vanderbilt University is a renowned, private research university offering a full-range of undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees, serving more than 13,000 students (~47% graduate and ~53% undergraduate). Housed in the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering (VUSE), the Department of Biomedical Engineering is consistently ranked as a top 20 undergraduate and graduate BME program by the U.S. News & World Report. Vanderbilt is a pioneer of this field, offering a bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering since 1968. Naturally, the department's faculty, staff, and students have been at the vanguard of interdisciplinary and cross-institutional work, and departmental research spans the areas of Biomaterials and Drug Delivery, Medical Devices, Medical Imaging, Low Resource Bi...omedical Technologies, Surgery and Engineering, Computational Modeling, Biomechanics and Mechanobiology, and Biomedical Photonics. VUBME is home to 50 primary faculty and more than 70 secondary faculty, supporting nearly 120 PhD students and 220 undergraduates. The department is highly successful with PhD students having individual fellowships such as from the National Science Foundation. Among several NIH T32 training programs on campus, BME students also have access to NIH T32 training programs through the Diabetes and Engineering and Innovative Engineering Research in Surgery and Intervention programs administered directly out of engineering. BME's Faculty members participate in several cross-institutional centers, including the Vanderbilt Brain Institute (VBI), Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE), Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science (VUIIS), Vanderbilt Institute for Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE), the Vanderbilt Center on Mechanobiology, the Data Science Institute, the Vanderbilt Biophotonics Center (VBC), the Vanderbilt Lab for Immersive AI Translation (VALIANT), the Vanderbilt Memory and Alzheimer's Center, the Vanderbilt Center for Stem Cell Biology, and the Vanderbilt Center of Computational Systems Biology. The department maintains a close affiliation with the school of medicine, which is tier 1 for research as ranked by the U.S. News & World Report's annual ranking of top medical schools for research. BME maintains a synergistic relationship with entities in medicine including the Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training Center, the Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology, and Inflammation (VI4), The Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC), and many others. NASHVILLE, TN Nashville is Tennessee's capital, comprising a metro area population of ~2M people. It is an international destination for the arts, entrepreneurship, and scientific research, thereby attracting world-renowned scholars to Vanderbilt and the broader community. Nashville has been named one of the 15 best U.S. cities for work and family by Fortune magazine, was ranked as the #1 most popular U.S. city for corporate relocations by Expansion Management magazine. Home to more than 100 stand-alone parks, and a quick drive away from the Great Smoky Mountains, Nashville offers many opportunities for enjoying the outdoors. In addition to the nearby greenways, scenic hiking routes, and historic riverfront, Vanderbilt's park-like campus is an accredited arboretum with more than 200 different species.
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