Research, Postdoctoral and Faculty Positions at Harvard University, a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, United States

Tenure-track or Tenured Professor in the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures

Faculty of Arts and SciencesThe Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, seeks to make a tenure-track, or possibly a tenured, appointment. Candidates must have excellent command of at least one Celtic language. We are open to applicants specializing in any period, and based in any discipline, with research and teaching interests in the cultures of the Celtic speaking lands. The appointee will te…View DetailsBookmark

Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard in RL with Applications in Mobile Health!

Faculty of Arts and SciencesJoin us as a postdoctoral fellow in Professor Susan Murphy’s Statistical Reinforcement Learning Group. Our research concerns sequential decision making in mobile health, including experimental design and reinforcement learning algorithms.  We combine statistical methods with algorithms from reinforcement learning so as to provide inferential tools. The successful applicant will be expected to d…View DetailsBookmark

Harvard University Herbaria Research Fellowship

Faculty of Arts and SciencesThe Harvard University Herbaria (HUH; http://huh.harvard.edu) invites nominations and direct applications for the Harvard University Herbaria Research Fellowship, a fellowship in plant and/or fungal science. We especially seek outstanding early-career scientists and collections professionals who see new opportunities and innovations for collections-based research. The goal of the program is to …View DetailsBookmark

Preceptor in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

Faculty of Arts and SciencesThe Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology is seeking a Preceptor in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (OEB). The Preceptor will work closely with Harvard faculty and students to develop and implement innovative curricula and course materials. Preceptors are expected to launch a successful teaching career by developing superior teaching and administrative skills as part of team of …View DetailsBookmark

Preceptor

Faculty of Arts and SciencesThe Harvard Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology (HSCRB) is the first and only cross-school academic department in both the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Medical School. As a result, the educational mission spans undergraduate, graduate, and medical communities on both the Cambridge and Longwood campuses, as well as the Harvard-affiliated hospitals. Recently with …View DetailsBookmark

Tenure-Track Professor in Developmental Cognitive Science

Faculty of Arts and SciencesThe Department of Psychology seeks to appoint a tenure-track professor, to begin July 1, 2022. We seek candidates with expertise in developmental cognitive science, broadly conceived.  Our interest is less in specific topic areas or methods than in the innovation and excellence of the applicant’s research program. For instance, in addition to experimental behavioral research on human children, …View DetailsBookmark

Assistant Professor of Public Policy (Jr. Analytics)

Harvard Kennedy SchoolThe Harvard Kennedy School invites applications for the position of Assistant Professor beginning in the Fall 2022 semester. We are particularly interested in applied microeconomics (including both empirical and theoretical applications in development, industrial organization, labor, public, and urban), behavioral economics, econometrics (including machine learning), finance, macroeconomics and…View DetailsBookmark

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Literature and Culture

Faculty of Arts and SciencesThe Davis Center Postdoctoral Fellowship program offers comprehensive research, training and professional development opportunities for scholars advancing their careers in the humanities. Fellows pursue their research with support from an interdisciplinary community of experts and with access to world-class resources. The program provides scholars with experiences and connections that endure we…View DetailsBookmark

Postdoctoral Fellowship in History

Faculty of Arts and SciencesThe Davis Center Postdoctoral Fellowship program offers comprehensive research, training and professional development opportunities for scholars advancing their careers in history. Fellows pursue their research with support from an interdisciplinary community of experts and with access to world-class resources. The program provides scholars with experiences and connections that endure well beyo…View DetailsBookmark

Preceptor in Physics

Faculty of Arts and SciencesThe Department of Physics at Harvard University seeks applications for a Preceptor in Physics. Working closely with faculty and staff in the Department of Physics, the preceptor will oversee all aspects of small-group instruction in the laboratory component of essential introductory and advanced physics courses, targeted to a wide range of students. Science preceptors supervise and train teachi…View DetailsBookmark

Tenure-track Professor in Modern Korean Humanities

Faculty of Arts and SciencesThe Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University invites applications for a tenure-track appointment in modern Korean humanities. The appointment is expected to begin on July 1, 2022. We are particularly interested in scholars with an interdisciplinary range who combine an interest in transnational dynamics with strengths in film, media, and/or cultural studies. Al…View DetailsBookmark

Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies in Sociology

Faculty of Arts and SciencesThe Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies (ADUS) will assist the Sociology Department ladder faculty members in the following ways: oversee the Department’s undergraduate program, including the concentration and secondary field; conduct and coordinate undergraduate advising, including concentration and senior theses advising; oversee concentration advisers and Teaching Fellows; oversee Le…View DetailsBookmark

The George F. Carrier Postdoctoral Fellowship

Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied SciencesThe Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University seeks applicants for an endowed, honorific postdoctoral position in widely applied mathematics, the George F. Carrier* Fellowship, with an expected start date of September 1, 2022. The normal duration of the Carrier Fellow appointment is two years, with a potential extension for a third year. We are loo…View DetailsBookmark

Pre-Doctoral Fellowship (Prof. Hendren/ Policy Impacts)

Faculty of Arts and SciencesThe pre-doctoral fellow will work directly with Professor Hendren on his Policy Impacts initiative focused on research topics in applied micro-economics and empirical welfare analysis. Topics likely include the welfare analysis of environmental policies and criminal justice policies, and the impact and incidence of labor market shocks. Work will involve detailed and careful coding of the welfar…View DetailsBookmark

Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS)

Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied SciencesThe Harvard Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS) solicits applications for postdoctoral fellows for the 2022-2023 academic year. CRCS provides postdoctoral fellows with an annual salary plus travel and research funding to allow them to engage in independent research. Fellows spend up to two years at CRCS. We seek researchers who are enthusiastic about interacting with computer …View DetailsBookmark

Rowland Institute Postdoctoral Fellow

Faculty of Arts and SciencesThe Hunter Lab at The Rowland Institute at Harvard is now accepting applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow position starting Fall 2021. This position will end at Harvard University on August 31, 2022, but is renewable at Northwestern University when the lab moves in Fall 2022. The Hunter Group focuses on developing molecules and materials for sustainable large-scale industrial processes, such a…View DetailsBookmark

Tenure-Track Professor in History of Architecture and/or Urbanism

Faculty of Arts and SciencesThe Department of History of Art and Architecture seeks to appoint a tenure-track professor in History of Architecture and/or Urbanism, field open in terms of chronological or geographical specialization. The appointment is expected to begin on July 1, 2022. We especially encourage applications from scholars whose research embraces critical, intersectional, interdisciplinary, or interregional a…View DetailsBookmark

Tenure-track or Tenured Professor in Ukrainian Literature and Culture

Faculty of Arts and SciencesThe Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures plans to appoint a tenure-track or tenured professor in Ukrainian literature and culture. The appointment is expected to begin on July 1, 2022. The successful candidate will be responsible for teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels, typically two courses per semester (including freshman seminars, survey courses, and advanced seminars…View DetailsBookmark

Tenure-Track Professor in Cryosphere Studies

Faculty of Arts and SciencesThe Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences (EPS) invites applications for an open faculty position in any area of cryosphere studies, including the development and application of observational platforms, field-based research, theory, and computational modeling. We are particularly interested in candidates whose work advances our understanding of climate change. This is a tenure-track appo…View DetailsBookmark

Postdoctoral Fellow in Biostatistics

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public HealthThis is a postdoctoral position developing statistical methods for finding patterns in complex biomedical data, working with Jeff Miller in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.  Models and methods of interest include hierarchical regression models, latent factorization models, nonparametric Bayesian models, models for sequential data, mixture models,…View DetailsBookmark

HUCE Environmental Fellow

Faculty of Arts and SciencesThe Harvard University Center for the Environment created the Environmental Fellows program to enable recent doctorate recipients to use and expand Harvard’s extraordinary resources to tackle complex environmental problems. The Environmental Fellows will work for two years with Harvard faculty members in any school or department while also strengthening connections across the University’s acade…View DetailsBookmark

Preceptor In Korean

Faculty of Arts and SciencesThe Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University invites applications for a full-time, multi-year Preceptor in Korean beginning July 1, 2022.  This is a term appointment of three years, renewable for a term of up to five years (eight years in total), contingent on performance, enrollments, curricular need, position availability, and divisional dean authorization.View DetailsBookmark

Postdoctoral Fellow

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public HealthWe are seeking a candidate with expertise in computational and systems biology to work as part of a multidisciplinary team developing methods relevant to the study of genetics, gene regulatory networks, and the use of quantitative imaging data as biomarkers. Our goal is to use these methods to better understand the development, progression, and response to therapy. The successful applicant will…View DetailsBookmark

Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology

Faculty of Arts and SciencesWe seek applications for a tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology. The department offers an interactive research community with interests in a broad range of topics, including cell biology, systems biology, biophysics, biochemistry, developmental biology, neurobiology, genetics, microbiology, computational biology, and structural biology. The appointme…View DetailsBookmark

Postdoctoral Fellow in the Evolution of Development

Faculty of Arts and SciencesThe laboratory of Dr. Cassandra Extavour at Harvard University is looking for one or more collaborative, self-motivated Postdoctoral Associate in Cambridge, MA. The Extavour lab works on the evolution of development at many different levels of biological organization and scale. We seek to understand the evolutionary origins and modern functions of the genes that govern cell fate decisions durin…View DetailsBookmark

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public HealthWe are seeking qualified and highly motivated individuals for a postdoctoral research fellowship. The research focus is on the impact of climate change, air pollution and socioeconomic environment on fetal and childhood development. The Fellow will be based in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and work directly with Dr. Sonia Hernandez-Diaz and Dr. St…View DetailsBookmark

Allston Burr Resident Dean

Faculty of Arts and SciencesHarvard College is a residential college comprising four areas of the first-year Yard and 12 upper-level Houses and the non-residential Dudley Community. Each of the 12 upper-level Houses employs an Allston Burr Resident Dean, who serves as the dean of students under the direction of the Faculty Deans and the Dean of Harvard College. The Resident Dean is responsible for the academic progress an…View DetailsBookmark

Pre-Doctoral Fellowship (Profs. Laibson/Choi/Beshears)

Faculty of Arts and SciencesEconomics professors David Laibson (Harvard University), James Choi (Yale University), and John Beshears (Harvard Business School) are hiring a full‐time pre-doctoral fellow to start work in mid-June 2022. This position will last until mid-July 2023, with a potential second year renewal, and will involve work on theoretical and empirical research related to behavioral economics, decision making…View DetailsBookmark

Reginald A. Daly Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

Faculty of Arts and SciencesThe Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University invites applicants for the Reginald A. Daly Postdoctoral Research Fellowship.The Department seeks candidates in the broad field of Earth and Planetary Sciences including but not limited to: geology, geochemistry, oceanography, Earth history, geobiology, hydrology, mineralogy, mineral physics, paleomagnetism, atmospheric dynami…View DetailsBookmark

Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer on Human Evolutionary Biology

Faculty of Arts and SciencesThe Department of Human Evolutionary Biology seeks applications for a full-time position that combines postdoctoral research and undergraduate teaching responsibilities. The position is initially for one year with reappointment for additional years contingent upon satisfactory performance and review and continued funding. The start-date is flexible and could be as early as January 1, 2022. Rese…

Postdoctoral Research Position in Biostatistics

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public HealthThe Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow position for statistical methods development to address questions of climate change and air pollution regulatory policy.  Expertise in causal inference and machine learning is desirable but not necessary. The Postdoctoral Fellow will work with a multi-disciplinary team…View DetailsBookmark

Research Scientist

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public HealthThe Department of Biostatistics in the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health has an immediate opening for a Research Scientist/Senior Research Scientist.  The candidate will play an active role in several projects in environmental statistics and epidemiology with a focus in the management, integration, methods development, and analysis of large and complex data sets. This is an attractive …View DetailsBookmark

Assistant Professor

Harvard Medical SchoolThe Department of Immunology at Harvard Medical School invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor. We seek an outstanding scientist performing basic and/or translational research in any area of innate or adaptive immunology.  Department faculty have diverse backgrounds and interests in understanding basic mechanisms of immunity and their roles in health …View DetailsBookmark

Postdoctoral Fellowship

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public HealthProfessors Kevin Croke and Margaret Kruk are seeking a highly-motivated and capable postdoctoral researcher with an interest in inter-disciplinary quantitative research and maternal and child health. The successful candidate will work on research and activities to support the evaluation of Service Delivery Resign for Maternal and Child Health in Kakamega County, and the Quality Evidence for Hea…View DetailsBookmark

Preceptor in Molecular and Cellular Biology

Faculty of Arts and SciencesWe are seeking applications for a preceptor in Molecular and Cellular Biology who will primarily have responsibility for Life Sciences 1b (LS1b), “An Integrated Introduction to the Life Sciences: Genetics, Genomics, and Evolution,” a large introductory course for undergraduates that integrates genetics, genomics, and evolution. The preceptor will be responsible for designing and supervising the…View DetailsBookmark

Senior Research Scientist

Faculty of Arts and SciencesThe IQSS Senior Research Scientist for Data Science and Product Research is a key advisor on the research agenda and strategic direction for IQSS’ research software product and services.  The person in this position contributes to the intellectual pursuits of Professor Gary King’s and IQSS’s research programs and is responsible for helping define products by maintaining a comprehensive understa…View DetailsBookmark

Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology

Faculty of Arts and SciencesThe Department of Psychology at Harvard University invites applications for a postdoctoral fellow in any of the following areas.Clinical ScienceCognition, Brain, and BehaviorDevelopmental PsychologySocial PsychologyThis is a grant-funded one-year term position with possibility of renewal dependent upon job performance and continued availability of funding.The Department of Psychology sits withi…View DetailsBookmark

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Reinforcement Learning, Probabilistic Methods, and/or Interpretability

Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied SciencesI’m always looking for longer terms postdocs (e.g. 2 years) that will be a good fit for research directions in the lab. You can get a sense of what we do by looking at my webpage finale.seas.harvard.edu and our group’s webpage https://dtak.github.io/ — we work on probabilistic models, reinforcement learning, and interpretability + human factors.  Our websites are also a good place to learn more…View DetailsBookmark

Postdoctoral Research Fellow/Research Associate Position in Biostatistics and Biomedical Informatics

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public HealthA Postdoctoral Research Fellow or Research Associate position in biostatistics and biomedical informatics is available at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The positions involve developing and applying statistical and computational methods for analysis of electronic health records (EHR) data including narrative data extracted via natural language processing, codified phenotype data as …View DetailsBookmark

Inequality in America Initiative 2022-23 Postdoctoral Fellowship

Faculty of Arts and SciencesSocial and economic inequality are urgent problems for our society, with implications for a range of outcomes from economic growth and political stability to crime, public health, family wellbeing, and social trust. The Inequality in America Initiative seeks applications from recent doctoral (or equivalent) degree recipients interested in joining an interdisciplinary network of Harvard research…View DetailsBookmark

Postdoctoral Fellow

Faculty of Arts and SciencesThe Strominger Lab seeks a scientist with 0-5 years of postdoctoral experience to participate in an ongoing research program focused on the regulation of expression of the Class 1 MHC proteins HLA-C, HLA-E, and HLA-G, in the maternal-fetal interface and their role in tolerance and infections. We are particularly interested in pregnancy complications (e.g., preterm birth and preeclampsia) which …View DetailsBookmark

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Music

Faculty of Arts and SciencesThe Department of Music seeks to appoint a tenure-track assistant professor in Musicology. We welcome applications from candidates representing a broad range of areas, including African-American music, Latinx Music, ecomusicology, popular music, sociology and politics of musical cultures, global music history, critical historiography, gender studies, digital media studies.We seek an innovative …View DetailsBookmark

Postdoctoral Fellow in Organ Engineering with the Lewis Lab

Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied SciencesThe Lewis Lab is seeking a postdoctoral fellow with expertise in one or more of the following areas: stem cell biology, organoid differentiation, bioprinting, or tissue engineering. The successful candidate will join a multidisciplinary team of researchers supported under three new awards from NIH, DoD, and Wellcome Leap. The goals of these projects are to develop vascularized cerebral, cardiac…View DetailsBookmark

Pre-Doctoral Fellowship–Opportunity Insights

Faculty of Arts and SciencesWe are hiring several full-time pre-doctoral fellows to start in summer 2022 to work with our research group, Opportunity Insights. Our team’s mission is to develop scalable policy solutions that will empower families throughout the United States to rise out of poverty and achieve better life outcomes. We pursue this mission primarily by conducting rigorous, scientific research that harnesses t…