What are the responsibilities and job description for the Professor - David D. Flanagan Chair and Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) Eminent position at Georgia Tech?
Overview
Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our strategic plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.
About Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.
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Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.
About the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University
The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University has a student body of 1,200 undergraduates, 425 graduate students, and 80 primary and 73 program faculty. In 2025 US News Graduate Program Rankings placed the department as the #2 ranked department in BME in the United States and our Undergraduate Program as the #2 department in the United States. Since its beginning, the unique partnership between two of the nation's leading public and private entities has been an innovation engine for research and education. Combining the engineering and medical strengths at Georgia Tech and Emory, we are focused on solving some of the toughest problems facing our state, the nation, and the world.
The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology & Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia invites applications for a tenure-track and endowed chair faculty position in computational and experimental systems biology, broadly defined. Applicants will be considered at the rank of full professor with tenure. The successful candidate will be named the David D. Flanagan Chair and Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) Eminent Scholar in Biological Systems, an endowed position specific to the Georgia Tech campus. GRA Eminent Scholars are expected to engage in or contribute to translational and/or economic development efforts in their field.
The department seeks a visionary scholar-educator and proven leader in high impact and emerging areas of importance to human health and biomedicine. A non-exhaustive list of related topics in the department's current research portfolio include strengths in regenerative medicine and cell-based therapeutics, biomaterials, immunoengineering, cancer technologies, and health informatics. Along with excellent scholarship, candidates are expected to have demonstrated strong leadership in building and leading extramurally funded research programs, noteworthy dedication to innovative teaching and mentoring of diverse undergraduate and graduate student bodies, as well as national and international recognition. Of particular interest are candidates with an established and active record of accomplishment in leading large multi-institution and multi-disciplinary collaborative research efforts and a vision for developing the next generation of systems biology tools to facilitate emerging areas such as mammalian synthetic biology, multiscale modeling, multi-omics integration, high-throughput genomic engineering, and systems medicine. Candidates are expected to demonstrate an exceptional commitment to the teaching and mentoring of students.
Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values. These values include academic excellence, freedom of expression and inquiry, innovation, collaboration, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.
A PhD in engineering or related field is required by the start of the appointment.
PhD in engineering or related field
The ability to teach and mentor a multifaceted student body
The ability to promote a welcoming educational/work environment
The ability to engage students in experiential learning activities and pedagogy that support student success
The ability to engage in high-impact practices that support deep learning for student success
The ability to apply expertise in teaching, scholarship, and/or service to advance student success
Applicants should submit:
a letter of application
curriculum vitae,
a statement of research interests
a description of teaching interests
as well as their advising/mentoring philosophy, and the names and contact information for at least three references.
Application materials should be submitted as .PDF files.
Applications will be considered beginning September 15, 2026, but the search will continue until the positions are filled. An earned doctorate is required by the start of the appointment.
Requests for information may be directed to Dr. Melissa Kemp, melissa.kemp@bme.gatech.edu, chair of the search committee.
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The successful candidate will interact with a vibrant and rapidly growing multi-disciplinary community across Georgia Tech, Emory, and greater Atlanta. Examples include the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB) and the Marcus Center of Excellence in Cell Biomanufacturing at Georgia Tech, the NCI-designated Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University, and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.
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