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Harvard University in United States invites application for vacant Postdoc and Academic Positions, a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, United States.

Biomedical Informatics Curriculum Fellow

Harvard Medical School

The Harvard Medical School Curriculum Fellows Program (HMS CFP) is seeking applications for a Biomedical Informatics Curriculum Fellow (CF) for the Department of Biomedical Informatics. This postdoctoral program targets early-career scientist-educators, emphasizing curriculum development, teaching, and educational programming in the biological and biomedical sciences.The Biomedical Informatics …View Details Bookmark

Tenured Professor in Medical Anthropology

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

The Department of Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School seek to appoint a tenured professor in Medical Anthropology. The appointment is expected to begin on July 1, 2026.Over the last 40 years, the program in Medical Anthropology at Harvard University has grown into a multi-faculty cross-school initiati…View Details Bookmark

Instructor of Biomedical Informatics

Harvard Medical School

The Chirag Patel Lab at the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School is seeking a qualified candidate to serve as Instructor of Biomedical Informatics.View Details Bookmark

Lecturer in Pre-1800 French and Francophone Studies

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures seeks applications for a lecturer in pre-1800 French and Francophone Studies (medieval and/or early modern). The appointment is expected to begin on July 1, 2025. The lecturer will be responsible for teaching four courses in French in the academic year, two per semester, at the 70, 80, and 100 levels (i.e. introductory literature and culture c…View Details Bookmark

Assistant/Associate Professor (Global Health Discipline Director)

Harvard School of Dental Medicine

The Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM) is an intellectually vibrant, collaborative, and global life sciences community. As a world leader in higher education, HSDM draws top scholars/scientists, clinicians, professionals, and students from around the world to support a unified mission of fostering a community of diverse leaders in education, research, and clinical innovation dedicated to …View Details Bookmark

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Buddhist Ministry 2025-26

Harvard Divinity School

Full-time post-doctoral fellowship for the academic year 2025-26. Proposals, research projects and English-language publications utilizing both Buddhism and ministry (understood broadly as leadership, service, chaplaincy, or caregiving) as areas of focus are welcomed. They may utilize disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches from across the fields of religion, the humanities, and the socia…View Details Bookmark

Assistant Professor

Harvard Medical School

The Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position focused on artificial intelligence in medicine. We seek a visionary researcher who will help shape the future of evidence-based medicine through innovative AI approaches that are rigorously developed, clinically validated, and thoughtfully implemented to enhanc…View Details Bookmark

Preceptor in Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian language

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

The Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures at Harvard University seeks applications for a position as Preceptor in Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian language. The appointment is expected to begin on July 1, 2025 with teaching beginning in Fall Semester 2025.The preceptor will be responsible for courses in beginning and intermediate Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian language (4 courses per academic …View Details Bookmark

2025-26 Fairbank Center Visiting Scholars Program

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

The Harvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies hosts Visiting Scholars from the faculties of other universities around the world as well as Visiting Fellows of Practice with professional expertise to contribute to an area of China studies.Selected visiting scholars/fellows are invited to be affiliated with the Fairbank Center for one or two semesters (6-12 months) to develop their p…View Details Bookmark

Instructor/Assistant Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Harvard School of Dental Medicine

The Harvard School of Dental Medicine invites applications for a full-time faculty position in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. This appointment is expected to be at the rank of instructor or assistant professor level. Academic rank and salary are commensurate with qualifications and experience. Applicants should have a strong record and future promise in teaching, service, and…View Details Bookmark

Predoctoral Director of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Harvard School of Dental Medicine

Become a leader in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (OMS) and shape the next generation. Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM) boasts many of the nation’s best and brightest dental students with nearly a third entering OMS each year. Experience the personal growth and reward of academic surgery as part of the Harvard Department of OMS which includes HSDM, Mass General Brigham and Boston Childr…View Details Bookmark

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

The Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health studies the frequency, distribution, and determinants of disease in humans, a fundamental science of public health. In addition to pursuing ground-breaking global research initiatives, we educate and prepare future medical leaders and practitioners as part of our mission to ignite positive changes in the quality of …View Details Bookmark

Scientific Researcher, Kessler Lab

Harvard Medical School

The Department of Health Care Policy (HCP) at Harvard Medical School is an exciting and uniquely collaborative research environment with an interdisciplinary group of faculty and staff with a variety of complementary expertise harnessed to be at the forefront of high impact findings in critical areas of health policy and health services research.The successful candidate will be the lead scienti…View Details Bookmark

Postdoctoral Position in AI and Cognitive Science

Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

The labs of Yilun Du and Sam Gershman are seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow with training and expertise in artificial intelligence, cognitive science and/or computational neuroscience. Successful candidates will have significant experience in computational modeling and AI as well as fluency in cognitive science.This position will include:• Developing new AI algorithms for developing intelligent age…View Details Bookmark

Assistant/Associate Professor of Health Systems

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

The Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health invites applications for the position of Assistant or Associate Professor of Health Systems. We seek an innovative scholar to make significant contributions to our health systems research agenda in a diverse, multidisciplinary department with a long history of excellence in education and research. Th…View Details Bookmark

Tenure-Track Professor in Climate Science

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

The Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences (EPS) invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in Climate Science. Climate Science is broadly defined and includes the study of the atmosphere, the ocean, the cryosphere, the land and their interaction in the context of past, present, and future climate. Possible approaches include observational, laboratory, computational, and the…View Details Bookmark

2025-26 Hou Family Postdoctoral Fellowship in Taiwan Studies

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University is pleased to announce the 2025-2026 competition for the Hou Family Fellowships in Taiwan Studies.The Hou Family Fellowships in Taiwan Studies sponsors one Postdoctoral Fellow who recently graduated or is currently teaching to pursue Taiwan-focused research in humanities and social sciences for six to twelve months between August 1, …View Details Bookmark

2025-26 Hou Family Pre-doctoral Fellowship in Taiwan Studies

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University is pleased to announce the 2025-2026 competition for the Hou Family Fellowships in Taiwan Studies.The Hou Family Fellowships in Taiwan Studies sponsors one Pre-doctoral Fellow who is an advanced PhD candidate in the humanities or social sciences to come to the Fairbank Center to pursue Taiwan-focused research for six to twelve months…View Details Bookmark

Assistant Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Harvard Medical School invites applications to a search for an Assistant Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine specializing in global mental health implementation research science. This researcher would apply skills in implementation science within one or more of these themes: the scaling up of psychosocial interventions, the use of digital technologies for assuring quality mental heal…View Details Bookmark

Postdoctoral Fellow in Theoretical & Computational Neuroscience

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Postdoctoral positions are available in Jacob Zavatone-Veth’s research group at Harvard’s Center for Brain Science. We are broadly interested in the theory of neural computation; see jzv.io for more information and recent publications. This position is specifically targeted to candidates interested in computation in recurrent neural networks and is funded for multiple years by the NIH.Responsib…View Details Bookmark

Postdoctoral Fellow – Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard, Business & Social Science

Harvard Business School

The Digital, Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard is accepting applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow for academic year 2024-2025 to work on research activities with the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard. D^3 launched in the summer of 2022 with 12 labs working on research at the intersection of academia and practice. For more information on D^3, please visit https://d3.harvard…View Details Bookmark

Postdoctoral Fellow – Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard, Computational & Mathematical Sciences

Harvard Business School

The Digital Data Design (D^3) Institute and the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH) seek enthusiastic Postdoctoral Fellows skilled in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning. As part of an interdisciplinary research team dedicated to advancing innovation science, the fellows will apply quantitative and experimental field methods to addres…View Details Bookmark

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Postdoctoral Fellow

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

The Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs will offer postdoctoral fellowships during the 2025-26 academic year. We seek applications from outstanding recent PhDs in the social sciences who are conducting research that illuminates Japan’s relations with the rest of the world in the broadest sense. We welcome applications from anthrop…View Details Bookmark

Preceptor in Expository Writing

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

The Harvard College Writing Program at Harvard University has several openings for preceptorship positions for the 2025-26 academic year beginning on July 1, 2025, to teach Expository Writing:Studio 10-Studio 20, the two-semester sequence of introductory courses for writers who can benefit from additional writing instruction. The sequence meets the College’s first-year writing requirement.Expos…View Details Bookmark

2025-26 College Fellows (in multiple areas)

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Please visit https://facultyresources.fas.harvard.edu/college-fellows-program for a list of open College Fellow positions.The College Fellows Program at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences identifies exceptional scholars who have recently completed their doctoral work and have demonstrated excellence in teaching. College Fellows teach within an area of specialization while given ample time to purs…View Details Bookmark

Professor & Director, John B Little Center for Radiation Sciences

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

The Department of Environmental Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health invites applications for a full-time tenure ladder faculty position at the rank of full professor as Director of the John B Little Center for Radiation Sciences. We are seeking a qualified individual to research and translate science on radiation and environmental exposures, whose expertise includes one (or …View Details Bookmark

Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Metabolism

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

The Department of Molecular Metabolism (MET) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health invites applications for the level of assistant professor. The shared interest of MET faculty is to explore metabolic biology to determine the mechanisms underlying the most widespread risk factors and diseases affecting human health, including cardiovascular disease, obesity and diabetes, cancer, neur…View Details Bookmark

Lecturer on Social Studies

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

The Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, an interdisciplinary honors program in the social sciences at Harvard College, seeks applications for full-time or part-time lecturers to teach in our intellectually vibrant undergraduate program. Our faculty are drawn from disciplines across the social sciences, history, and philosophy and share a commitment to the pedagogical goal of equipping our s…View Details Bookmark

Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

The 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 one-year term position with possibility of renewal dependent upon job performance and continued availability of funding.The Department of Psychology sits within the Divisio…View Details Bookmark

Postdoctoral Fellow in Statistics

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

The Department of Statistics invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow with Professor Subhabrata Sen. Professor Sen’s lab focuses on research in applied probability, high-dimensional statistics, and network analysis. Potential research projects include (but are not limited to) inference on networks, typical and atypical properties of random graphs, community detection etc.The appointment w…View Details Bookmark



Postdoctoral Research Position in Quantitative Sciences for Cancer Research

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

The Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health invites applications for a Postdoctoral fellow position funded in large part by an NIH training grant on Quantitative Sciences for Cancer Research. Candidates have latitude to choose among several mentors across various institutes at Harvard; research can range from the most applied to the most theoretical as long a…View Details Bookmark

Postdoctoral Fellow

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

A postdoc position is immediately available in the Uchida/Watabe-Uchida laboratory at Harvard University to study the neural mechanism of decision-making. We seek an individual from a various background with an interest in animal behavior, computation in the brain, and behavioral development.View Details Bookmark

Postdoctoral Research Position in Time-Domain Astrophysics (Transients, Gravitational Waves, Star/Exoplanet Magnetic Activity)

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

The Harvard College Observatory Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian invites applications for a postdoctoral research position with Prof. Edo Berger in the areas of time-domain and gravitational wave astrophysics, including electromagnetic studies of gravitational wave sources, supernovae, tidal disruption events, gamma-ray bursts, machine learning classification, and magnetic ac…View Details Bookmark

Postdoctoral Fellow – History of Capitalism

Harvard Business School

The History of Capitalism Project at Harvard Business School and Harvard University identifies and supports outstanding scholars whose work responds to the growing interest in the study of global capitalism from a historical perspective.  One History of Capitalism Fellow will be appointed for the academic year 2025-2026 and will be provided time, guidance, office space, and access to Harvard Un…View Details Bookmark

Senior Lecturer in Data Science

Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

The John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) at Harvard University seeks to appoint a full-time Senior Lecturer in Data Science with an expected start date of July 1, 2025. The successful applicant will be responsible for teaching three courses for the Data Science master’s program each year, and have administrative and advising duties within the master’s program includ…View Details Bookmark

Postdoctoral Fellow: Black Hole Initiative

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Applications are invited for Postdoctoral Research Fellows in the Black Hole Initiative (BHI) at Harvard University and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO). The BHI is the first interdisciplinary research center worldwide to focus on the study of black holes. It is located within Harvard University at 20 Garden Street in Cambridge, MA. Current senior members of the BHI include Harva…View Details Bookmark

Postdoctoral Fellow: Fishman Lab: Dept. of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

The Fishman Lab invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow position. Our goal is to discover signals that flow from internal organs to the brain – what parameters are sensed, by what cells, and to what end, in terms of maintaining constancy of the internal environment.  We focus in particular upon the heart and cardiovascular system, using the transparent larvae of the zebrafish. The heart,…View Details Bookmark

Language Instructor/Teaching Assistant in Japanese

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

The Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University anticipates one or more possible openings for a full-time Language Instructor/Teaching Assistant in Japanese expected to begin August 1, 2025 and to extend through June 30, 2026. Language instructors (formerly Drill Instructors) teach small-group sections in Japanese language classes under the supervision of a course…View Details Bookmark

Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Data Science

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

The Departments of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Data Science at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute provide exceptional environments to pursue research and education in quantitative methods, while leading global efforts to improve the health of individuals and populations. Faculty members work closely together across the two departments, and joint appointments…View Details Bookmark

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Visualization and/or Machine Learning at Harvard University

Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

The Insight + Interaction Lab in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) at Harvard University seeks motivated postdoctoral fellows with a Ph.D. in computer science/engineering or a related field to work on research projects in the areas of data visualization and/or machine learning. In addition to working closely with graduate students and collaborators on research projects, the …View Details Bookmark

Tenure-Track Professor in Quantum Science and Engineering

Multiple Schools – Joint Search

The Harvard Quantum Initiative, together with the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Department of Physics, seeks to appoint a tenure-track assistant professor in quantum science and engineering broadly defined, including, but not limited to, quantum systems and architectures. The successful candidate will hold an academic appointment in either the Department of Chemistry and Chem…View Details Bookmark