School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning

The School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning (SGSUP) at Arizona State University (ASU) invites applications for a full-time, benefits-eligible, tenure-eligible or tenured associate or full Professor. The successful candidate will also be appointed as the Director of the university's Urban Climate Research Center (UCRC, https://ucrc.asu.edu/).

We seek a visionary leader to champion the mission of the Urban Climate Research Center, drive its strategic growth, and elevate its global reputation. The UCRC Director reports to the School Director and serves at their discretion, ensuring close institutional alignment and a shared commitment to the Schools broader goals. The successful candidate will be a leader in the field of urban climate. ASU has established an exceptional reputation for urban climate research and leadership, with many notable urban climate scientists placed within SGSUP and across the university. We are seeking applicants to strengthen this reputation and contribute to teaching and scholarship in one of the following areas: Meteorology/Climate Science, GIS/Remote Sensing, or Urban Environmental Planning. The successful candidate may bring expertise in a wide range of relevant methodological approaches, including those rooted in physical observations, atmospheric modeling, dynamics of human-environment interactions, and/or planning/governance analysis.

In addition to responsibilities as the UCRC Director, the successful candidate will also contribute to teaching in SGSUP's undergraduate and graduate degree programs in Geography, GIS, and/or Urban Planning, across a variety of modalities (in-person, hybrid, and online). The expected workload distribution for the UCRC Director is 50% research, 20% teaching (2 courses/year), and 30% service. The position is designated as in-person and is located on the Tempe campus.

About The School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning

SGSUP is proudly transdisciplinary. The mission of SGSUP is to advance geospatial knowledge for a complex world, emphasizing education, research, and applied solutions to urban and environmental problems.

• We are a distinctive community of social and physical scientists whose blended expertise is producing breakthroughs in geography, urban planning, and GIS.
• We are committed to the social and environmental well-being of communities, places, and people.
• We are world leaders in spatial science and urban climatology.
• We are emerging leaders in transportation, housing, urban systems analysis, human-environmental systems, sustainability, resilience, and earth surface processes.

With approximately 40 full-time faculty, over 100 graduate students, and nearly 900 undergraduate majors, SGSUP offers degrees in planning, geography, and GIS, as well as graduate certificates in social science research methods, transportation, and GIS. To learn more about SGSUP, visit: https://sgsup.asu.edu/

About The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is the academic heart of Arizona State University, committed to improving communities on a local, national, and global scale. We support the professional development and growth of our faculty and staff in their cutting-edge research to advance these aims. Within The College, our faculty engage with a large and curious student body, guiding them as they grow into socially aware, critical thinkers and writers able to succeed in a wide range of careers and to address the challenges of the twenty-first century. Advancing the success of our students remains our top priority. To learn more about The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, please visit https://thecollege.asu.edu.

About Arizona State University

ASU exemplifies a new prototype for the American public research university. As articulated in the ASU Charter, ASU is a comprehensive public research university, measured not by whom it excludes, but by whom it includes and how they succeed; advancing research and discovery of public value; and assuming fundamental responsibility for the economic, social, cultural, and overall health of the communities it serves.

Essential Functions:

• Serve as Director of the Urban Climate Research Center, reporting to and in coordination with the School Director to advance the UCRC while advancing the school's broader mission
• Conduct research in support of the mission of the Urban Climate Research Center and SGSUP more broadly
• Teach courses at the undergraduate and graduate level that support the needs of our students in Geography, GIS, and/or Urban Planning