Description
The Department of Ophthalmology | Flaum Eye Institute at the University of Rochester invites applications for an open-rank, tenure-track faculty position. We welcome candidates with a broad interest in studying ocular structure and function in health and disease.
Primary appointment of the new faculty will reside in the Department of Ophthalmology | Flaum Eye Institute, but there are ready opportunities for secondary appointments in the Center for Visual Science (a university-wide community of >55 faculty engaged in vision research), and other University of Rochester departments (e.g., the Institute of Optics, Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering, Microbiology and Immunology, Biomedical Genetics, etc.).
The faculty hire will have access to considerable shared resources, both within the department of Ophthalmology (shared confocal microscope, histology laboratory, ophthalmic imaging core, biostatistics) and within the Medical Center. The successful candidate will work with an active program of undergraduate and graduate students through multiple, highly-ranked, degree-granting academic programs across the University of Rochester.
Requirements
Candidates should hold a PhD, MD, MD PhD or equivalent. An important expectation for this job position is demonstrated research productivity and the ability to attract extramural funding. Depending on qualifications, an appointment will be made at the assistant, associate or full professor level.
Preferred candidates will have expertise in advanced physiological optics (e.g., adaptive optics imaging, optical coherence tomography, scanning laser ophthalmoscopy, two-photon imaging, fluorescence lifetime or other ocular imaging modalities) and/or expertise in advanced cellular and molecular biology, such as single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, proteomics, lipidomics and connectomics, as well as stem cell and organoid approaches for studying retinal physiology. Research areas may involve humans, animal models and/or in vitro systems, as well as computational approaches including machine learning and artificial intelligence.
The position will be open until filled, but the application review process will start on July 15th, 2026.
Applications should be submitted on Interfolio (apply.interfolio.com/162715).
For questions, please email Dr. Ruchira Singh (Ruchira_Singh@urmc.rochester.edu) and/or Dr. Krystel Huxlin (khuxlin@ur.rochester.edu).
Individual salaries will be determined within the job’s salary range and established based on (but not limited to) market data, experience and expertise of the individual, and with consideration to related position salaries. Alignment of clinical incentive-based compensation may also be applicable and will be discussed during the hiring process.
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