Faculty position in Civil and Environmental Infrastructure Systems
About The Position
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, invites applications for an open-rank tenure-track or tenured faculty position in Civil and Environmental Infrastructure Systems. This search focuses on driving innovation across three core strategic pillars: Automation, Resilience, and Circularity (ARC). Civil and environmental infrastructure faces growing pressures from climate change, resource constraints, and physical deterioration. Addressing these challenges requires new approaches to design, construction, monitoring, and operation. Advances in artificial intelligence, sensing, and autonomous decision-making offer opportunities to improve the safety and performance of infrastructure systems. These capabilities must be grounded in engineering fundamentals and integrated with computational, biological, and subsurface technologies, as well as relevant social, policy, and economic considerations. This integration can support infrastructure that is resilient to compound hazards, circular in its use of resources, capable of safe and increasingly automated operation, and responsive to societal needs. We seek visionary scholars who research advances the analysis, design, construction, and operation of civil and environmental infrastructure through resilience, circularity, and automation. We are particularly interested in AI-enabled research grounded in civil and environmental engineering applications, including research that addresses human-system interactions and governance. Relevant research directions include, but are not limited to: Automation and Cyber-Physical Systems: AI-enabled sensing, digital twins, autonomous monitoring and control, and decision-making under uncertainty for transportation, energy, water, built, and other networked infrastructure systems. Resilience and Extreme Events: Assessment and management of compound, cascading, and systemic risks associated with extreme events across physical, environmental, and sociotechnical systems. Circularity and Resource Systems: Closed-loop approaches to materials, water, energy, and waste using biogeochemical, subsurface, energy, and environmental technologies. Relevant areas may include environmental biotechnology, recovery of resources and critical materials, energy geotechnics, carbon storage, and materials valorization.
Requirements
- Hold a Ph.D. or equivalent degree in civil engineering, environmental engineering, or a closely related field by the appointment start date.
Nice To Haves
- Mid-career and senior candidates at the Associate or Full Professor level are strongly encouraged to apply and contribute to program leadership and the mentoring of junior faculty.
Responsibilities
- Build a strong, externally funded research program that translates fundamental advances into engineering practice.
- Lead interdisciplinary, center-scale research initiatives that bridge engineering fundamentals with social, policy, and economic considerations across campus.
- Contribute to undergraduate and graduate education, including developing new courses that complement the CEE curriculum.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
