Tenure Track: Assistant Professor (Lifespan Development)

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Tenure Track: Assistant Professor (Lifespan Development)

Psychological and Brain Sciences

Location

College Station, Texas

Open Date

8/10/2026

Position ID

188342

Description

The Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, at Texas A&M University invites applications for one full-time tenure track assistant professor position with a 9-month academic appointment to begin in Fall 2027.

The successful candidate will engage in research, grant applications, and funded projects, teach courses in our graduate and undergraduate programs, and act as an engaged citizen of the department, college, university, and their field. We seek candidates who are well-positioned to publish in top-tier peer reviewed journals in their fields and to obtain grants from federal agencies and/or private foundations. Typical teaching loads for the department are 3 courses per year, distributed across undergraduate and graduate programs; evidence of teaching effectiveness is a plus.

For this position, the population of interest and area of study are open. As we seek to grow departmental strength in lifespan perspectives and methodologies, we strongly encourage applicants whose work focuses on developmental, senescence, mechanisms of change over time, or lifespan influences on brain and behavior within the social context. The successful applicant will have the opportunity to contribute to and help shape this emerging area, in collaboration with colleagues across the department. Applicants are likely to have expertise in one or more of the following areas: early emotional development; socioemotional predictors of disorder; aging clinical/neuropsychology; longitudinal methods, modeling, and/or other data analytic approaches; links between hormones and human behavior; stability and change in individual differences with a lifespan perspective; imaging with developing populations; the impact of life experience/adversity on later psychological outcomes; transitions to the workplace or retirement; or cognitive aging.

The Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Texas A&M University is a community of scholars committed to generating scientific discoveries in the discipline, providing rigorous and inspiring undergraduate and graduate education, and engaging in outreach about psychology and the application of psychological science. We value collaboration, with many faculty having grants and research projects with colleagues inside and beyond the department. The Department has numerous programs to support early career faculty, including a formal mentoring program.

We currently offer doctoral programs in clinical psychology, cognition, and cognitive neuroscience, social and personality psychology, industrial-organizational psychology, and behavioral and cellular neuroscience, and a masters program in industrial-organizational psychology. We currently have 60 full-time faculty, over 100 PhD students, and approximately 2,000 undergraduate majors. Texas A&M University is a land, sea, and space grant institution that holds the distinction of classification as an R1 Doctoral University (highest research activity), and faculty benefit from the resources and support associated with this designation. Our department is committed to broadening participation in higher education, and has a policy of being responsive to the needs of dual-career couples. The Department is interested in candidates who, through their research, teaching, and/or service, will contribute to the breadth and excellence of the academic community, and well as the educational needs of the population of Texas and the global community.

Texas A&M University is a Top 20 public research institution and among the largest universities in the US. Located in College Station, the university is 90 miles from Houston, 100 miles from Austin, and 165 miles from Dallas. The Bryan-College Station metropolitan area has over 260,000 residents and is experiencing rapid job growth. Texas has no state income tax. College Station has a local airport served by American Airlines.

Qualifications

A PhD in Psychology or closely related field is required. Preference will be given to candidates with demonstrated potential for publishing high quality research in leading journals, writing and obtaining grants, and engaging in high quality teaching and mentoring activites.

Application Instructions

Applicants must submit: a cover letter; CV; a personal statement to include philosophy and plans for research, teaching and service (as applicable); and contact information for at least three references. To apply, please visit: https://apply.interfolio.com/190289. For questions and additional assistance, please contact Jennifer Fraustro at jenfrosty12@tamu.edu.

Priority will be given to applications received by October 1, but applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

Application Process

This institution is using Interfolios Faculty Search to conduct this search. Applicants to this position receive a free Dossier account and can send all application materials, including confidential letters of recommendation, free of charge.

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The University is aware that attracting and retaining exceptional faculty often depends on meeting the needs of two careers and therefore has a Dual Career Program.