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These positions (designated as “Impact Engine Fellows”) are the latest in a significant, multi-year expansion in size and scope of environmental research expertise and capabilities, including faculty, facilities, and programs, emphasizing cross-disciplinary themes, and are aligned with the “Impact Engine” iSUPER (Healthier Air and People: Intelligent Solutions to Urban Pollution for Equity and Resilience (https://impactengines.northeastern.edu/ie/isuper/), one of several strategic, university-wide investments in high-impact research. Impact Engines bring together diverse interdisciplinary expertise and experience focused on a global problem and its contexts and perspectives. The tenured/tenure-track faculty line will persist beyond the lifetime of the impact engine, while the impact engine fellow title persists while the impact engine is active (minimum 3 years). All other processes related to faculty recruitment, hiring, tenure and promotion will remain consistent with...

We seek applicants with expertise in geotechnics related to (1) urban coastal sustainability, (2) engineered geotechnical and nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation, (3) geotechnical design for extreme events, including hazards, risks, predictions, reconnaissance, and response, and (4) geotechnical systems to advance offshore/marine renewable energy infrastructure. Example areas include the interaction of geotechnical and offshore renewable energy infrastructure, geohazard assessment of coastal infrastructure, adaptation of coastal geotechnical systems in response to extreme events, soil/foundation dynamics, soil/structure interaction, and construction/monitoring/site assessment of integrated geotechnical/structural coastal systems. Our recruitment initiatives at Northeastern are dedicated to fostering education and research across disciplinary boundaries. We aim to create a signature effort at the interface of the built and natural environments that will accelerate...