Back to Listings Tenure Track: Assistant Professor (Lifespan Development) Psychological and Brain Sciences Location College Station, Texas Open Date 8/10/2026 Position ID 188342 Description The Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, at Texas A&M University invites applications for one full-time tenure track assistant professor position with a 9-month academic appointment to
begin in Fall 2027. The successful candidate will engage in research, grant applications, and funded projects, teach courses in our graduate and undergraduate programs, and act as an engaged citizen of the department, college, university, and their field. We seek candidates who are well-positioned to publish in top-tier peer reviewed journals in their fields and to obtain grants from federal agencies and/or private
foundations. Typical teaching loads for the department are 3 courses per year, distributed across undergraduate and graduate programs; evidence of teaching effectiveness is a plus. For this position, the population of interest and area of study are open. As we seek to grow departmental strength in lifespan perspectives and methodologies, we strongly encourage applicants whose work focuses on developmental,
senescence, mechanisms of change over time, or lifespan influences on brain and behavior within the social context. The successful applicant will have the opportunity to contribute to and help shape this emerging area, in collaboration with colleagues across the department. Applicants are likely to have expertise in one or more of the following areas: early emotional development; socioemotional predictors of
disorder; aging clinical/neuropsychology; longitudinal methods, modeling, and/or other data analytic approaches; links between hormones and human behavior; stability and change in individual differences with a lifespan perspective; imaging with developing populations; the impact of life experience/adversity on later psychological outcomes; transitions to the workplace or retirement; or cognitive aging. The Department
of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Texas A&M University is a community of scholars committed to generating scientific discoveries in the discipline, providing rigorous and inspiring undergraduate and graduate education, and engaging in outreach about psychology and the application of psychological science. We value collaboration, with many faculty having grants and research projects with colleagues inside and
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