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The University of California, Berkeley, solicits applications for a newfaculty position in the area of Metropolitan Infrastructure Planning, Management, and Analysis. The position will be filled at the Assistant Professor level. The anticipated starting date is July 1, 2008.

The successful candidate must hold a doctorate degree in civil engineering, city planning, economics or an allied field, and must demonstrate potential for high-quality research and teaching. The candidate is expected to teach courses on the planning, analysis, and management of urban/metropolitan infrastructure systems, such as water, energy, solid waste, telecommunications, transportation, or other infrastructure sectors.  Strong background in applied quantitative methods such as econometrics, financial analysis, game theory, causal modeling, or operations research is required, along with an interest in policy analysis using such methods. Focal areas of research should include one or more of the following:

• The interaction of technology, planning, and management strategy for infrastructure
• Alternate financing systems for infrastructure development and management
• Evaluation of infrastructure projects and investment programs
• Interactions between infrastructure investments, land use, economic development and environmental impacts
• Design of demand side and supply side policies for reducing the environmental effects of infrastructure provision and operation
• Equity and access considerations in infrastructure planning, development, and financing
• Infrastructure regulation, productivity and investment

The search will be conducted under the auspices of the new Center for Global Metropolitan Studies, with participation from the Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering, City and Regional Planning, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, the Energy and Resources Group, the School of Public Health, and the Departments of Sociology, Geography, and Political Science. The Center is part of the new interdisciplinary Metropolitan Studies Initiative. Applicants may read about the Metropolitan Studies Initiative and the Center for Global Metropolitan Studies at www.metrostudies.berkeley.edu.

The successful candidate will hold a faculty appointment in a department to be determined based on the candidate’s preferences and departmental fit. The candidate also will be a faculty affiliate of the newly established Center for Metropolitan Studies and will serve as a member of an interdisciplinary Graduate Teaching Group in Infrastructure, one of three academic components of the new Metropolitan Studies Initiative.  He or she is expected to teach undergraduate and graduate courses; to develop new courses within the Metropolitan Studies Initiative; and to interact with faculty in the Center for Global Metropolitan Studies, other research centers on campus, and relevant professional organizations.

Candidates with professional and/or international experience are welcome. Applicants should send a statement of interest, CV, sample of 3-5 publications, and a list of the names, titles, e-mail addresses, and mail addresses of 3-5 persons who can provide written evaluations/letters of reference.

Electronic submissions are preferred. Applicants submitting materials electronically should follow the procedures outlined at http://metrostudies.berkeley.edu/candidate.shtml or e-mail globalmetrostudies@berkeley.edu for instructions. Mailed submissions should be sent to:

Global Metropolitan Studies Infrastructure Search
Committee, c/o Institute of Urban and Regional Development,

316 Wurster Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1870.

Queries may be directed to globalmetrostudies@berkeley.edu.

Closing date is February 29, 2008.