Assistant or Associate Professor - Guelph, Canada - University of Guelph

University of Guelph

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Guelph, Canada

3 weeks ago

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Description

The Chair is expected to establish a strong independent, collaborative and multi-disciplinary research program in the area of Systems Approaches to Disease.

The program should aim to find solutions, using big data analytic approaches, for control of disease and improving health and welfare in agricultural and/or companion animals.

The Chair is expected to work collaboratively with Pathobiology and OVC faculty to promote and implement high throughput technologies and bioinformatics.

The Department of Pathobiology has recognized strengths in mammalian and comparative pathology, veterinary infectious diseases, microbiology and immunology.

The Department, together with the Animal Health Laboratory, has a new state-of-the-art 13,000 square meter building housing well-equipped modern research and diagnostic laboratories.

The College has a large veterinary teaching hospital (Health Sciences Centre), the Animal Cancer Centre, Bench to Bedside Institute for Translational Health Research and Innovation, and the Centre for Public Health and Zoonoses.

In addition, researchers have access to nearby research stations suitable for conducting studies in a variety of domestic animals and on-campus housing for laboratory animals.

Nominees for Tier 2 Chair positions should, at a minimum, be assistant or associate professors, or possess the necessary qualifications to be appointed to these levels.

Eligibility for a Tier 2 Chair requires that applicants are emerging scholars.

Applicants who are more than 10 years from having earned their first highest degree (including DVM), where career breaks exist, such as parental or extended sick leave, clinical training, or other exceptional circumstances, including research interruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, may have their eligibility assessed through the program's Tier 2 justification process.

Eligible leaves and research interruptions are generally credited at twice the amount of time taken. For more information about the Tier 2 justification process please contact Ailsa Kay,, Manager, Strategic Research Programs. Please consult the Canada Research Chairs website for full program information, including details on eligibility.

The University of Guelph is the third largest employer in Guelph, a city of approximately 130,000 people, located about an hour drive west of Toronto, Ontario.

University of Guelph is a top-ranked comprehensive university in Canada with an enrolment of more than 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students across over 40 academic units.

The University is known for its commitment to student learning, innovative research, and collaboration with world-class partners. It is a unique place, with transformative research and teaching and a distinctive campus culture.

People who learn and work here are shaped and inspired by a shared purpose:
_To Improve Life_.

Reflecting that shared purpose in every experience connected to our university positions us to create positive change, here and around the world.

Our university community shares a profound sense of social responsibility, a drive for international development, and an obligation to address global issues.

The CRC program is committed to excellence in research and research training and is promoting exemplary practices with respect to equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI).

The goals of research excellence can only be met when equity and diversity are integrated into the research initiative. The CRC program reflects the federal government's commitment to equity and diversity in employment.

It aims to ensure the appropriate representation of women and gender minorities, persons with disabilities, Indigenous Peoples and racialized persons.

Application Process:

Dr. Brandon Lillie
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Pathobiology
University of Guelph
Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1

The University recognizes that applicants may have had obligations outside of work that have negatively impacted their record of achievements (e.g., parental, elder care, and/or medical).

You are not required to disclose these obligations in the hiring process.

If you choose to do so, the University will ensure that these obligations do not negatively impact the assessment of your qualifications for the position.

The Canada Research Chairs Program imposes no restrictions on nominees with regard to nationality or country of residence.

Procedures to allow non-Canadian chairholders to work in Canada have been established by Employment and Social Development Canada and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.

The University of Guelph resides on the ancestral lands of the Attawandaron people and the treaty lands and territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit and we offer our respect to our Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and Métis neighbours as we strive to strengthen our relationships with them.

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