Colleagues:

 

Please feel free to forward this job ad to colleagues and students who might be interested.  Thanks much!  David

 

The Quantitative Methods (QM) program in the Department of Psychology and Human Development, Peabody College of Education and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, is recruiting to fill an open rank faculty position, with a preference for candidates who would be appointed at a late Assistant or Associate Professor level.  The competitive candidate must have a developing or already-established outstanding reputation encompassing statistical methods, statistical modeling, and/or psychological/educational measurement.  Examples of specific areas that would enhance and expand our current specializations include Multivariate Statistics, Big Data Applications, Computational Statistics, Bayesian Methods, Dynamical Systems Modeling, and Latent Variable Modeling.  Our program values a strong commitment to research and teaching, as well as a collegial/collaborative spirit.  The successful candidate will join an intellectually vibrant program of QM scholars; see the following link for details:

http://www.vanderbilt.edu/psychological_sciences/graduate/programs/quantitative-methods/index.php.  Peabody College is one of the premier colleges of education in the U.S. (including the #1 ranking for five of the past seven years).  Vanderbilt University is an outstanding private institution with excellent students, staff, and facilities.  VU is located in Nashville, an exciting city of almost 2 million residents. Nashville is well-known as a world leader in music, arts, entertainment, cuisine, sports, medicine, government, and education.

Applications should include a current curriculum vitae, a statement of research/teaching activity, representative reprints/preprints, and indications of teaching excellence (including student evaluation material).  Applications may be attached to an e-mail, and sent to QMSearch@vanderbilt.edu.  Candidates should also arrange to have three letters of recommendation sent to the e-mail address above.  Questions may be sent to the Director of the QM program, Joe Rodgers, at joseph.l.rodgers@vanderbilt.edu.  Review of applications will begin on October 15, 2015, and will continue until the position is filled.  Vanderbilt is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer.

 

David Lubinski

Professor of Psychology

Co-Director, Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth

0552 GPC

230 Appleton Place

Vanderbilt University

Nashville, TN 37203

 

Phone: (615) 343-1195

 

https://my.vanderbilt.edu/smpy/publications/david-lubinski/