University of Ottawa
Location: Ontario
Date posted: 2024-07-05
Advertised until: 2024-09-03
The Faculty of Science at the University of Ottawa invites applications for a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Toxicology and One Health. The successful candidate will be appointed as an Assistant or Associate Professor in the Department of Biology and then nominated for the CRC. The University of Ottawa is located on the ancestral land of the Algonquin people and its location in the National Capital Region provides many collaborative research opportunities, including through the Ottawa-Carleton Institute of Biology, the Chemical and Environmental Toxicology Specialization, and the Ottawa-Carleton Joint Collaborative Program in Bioinformatics, all of which are joint graduate programs with Carleton University. The Department of Biology values collegiality and applicants should identify ways they contribute positively to their academic communities.
The candidate will develop an exceptional, externally funded research program that addresses pressing needs in toxicology, environmental health, and regulatory sciences. Challenges in this field include aggressive mandates to understand and manage the human and ecological impacts of thousands of legacy industrial compounds alongside new chemical products of increasing complexity. These challenges are exacerbated by policies requiring reduction and eventual elimination of the use of living vertebrate animals in toxicological testing. The selected candidate will build or expand partnerships and research collaborations with colleagues on campus and with leading governmental, non-governmental, and educational organizations centred in Canada and especially in the National Capital Region. Policy engagements and excellence in science communication are also encouraged.
Tier 2 Chairs, tenable for five years and renewable once, are for exceptional emerging researchers, acknowledged by their peers as having the potential to lead in their field. For each Tier 2 Chair, the institution receives $100,000 annually for five years, with an additional $20,000 annual research stipend for first-term Tier 2 Chairs.
Candidates should, at a minimum, be assistant or associate professors, or possess the necessary qualifications to be appointed to these levels. Candidates who are more than 10 years from their highest degree must contact the University of Ottawa directly for questions related to their potential eligibility for a Tier 2 Chair. The institution may nominate a professor or a researcher who is more than 10 years from their highest degree at the time of nomination and has experienced legitimate career interruptions (see acceptable justifications). In such cases, the institution must submit to the Secretariat a formal justification (using the Tier 2 Justification Screening Form), explaining why the nominee is still considered to be an emerging scholar. The University recognizes the legitimate impact that leaves (e.g., parental leave, leave due to illness) can have on a candidate’s record of research achievement and that these leaves will be taken into careful consideration during the assessment process. New CRC nominees are also eligible for infrastructure support from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) to help acquire state-of-the-art equipment essential to their work.
Selective hiring
The University of Ottawa is committed to ensuring equity, diversity, and inclusion in the scholarly and leadership environments of our students, staff, and faculty members. In accordance with the University’s Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Action Plan, the selection will be limited to members of the four designated groups such as Indigenous peoples, racialized individuals, persons with disabilities, women and gender equity-seeking groups as defined in the CRC Program method for establishing equity targets and the Employment Equity Act. Candidates from these groups who wish to be considered for this position must complete the confidential self-identification form during the application process online (fill the Employment Equity Questionnaire on the web portal). The objective of this measure is to increase the representation of the four designated groups in the allocation of Canada Research Chair positions. Internal candidates are not eligible.