2024 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit
Meet the New Faculty Candidates Poster Session
Wednesday, December 4
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Hynes, Level 2, Hall D
The Meet the New Faculty Candidates Poster Session offers an excellent opportunity for faculty candidates to meet one another and get feedback before their interviews, and for recruiters and search committees to find new faculty candidates. The goals of this event include the following:
- Provide resources to help early career professionals apply to academic positions
- Offer a networking opportunity for new faculty candidates and recruiters/search committees
- Provide a platform for early career professionals to develop their statement of research and teaching/pedagogy and to practice for their interviews
Are you hiring faculty?
Search Committee Members and Department heads—come meet the candidates! We expect 100 participants!
Register your interest so we can keep you updated. Your information will not be shared. You must attend onsite to receive a copy of the abstract book. As a bonus for attending, you will receive a 25% discount toward a Job Flash™ Package on the MRS Career Central Job Board.
Faculty application is not only about putting your CV together or writing a cover letter, it's about developing your vision on research, teaching, and diversity and inclusion. So it requires a lot of thinking.
Babak Anasori
ECPSC Chair, Purdue University
Past Participants
Chatting with other candidates and learning from their experiences provided tremendous insight and emotional support. I think it is very helpful to share with others the difficulties in getting a faculty position and knowing that you are not alone.
Mona Ebrish
Vanderbilt University
The experience [helped] me polish my ideas and presentation for the subsequent job searching. I highly recommend faculty candidates attend this super fruitful session.
Jun Xiao
University of Wisconsin - Madison
The Meet the New Faculty Candidates Poster Session provided me with an eye-opening experience on the faculty interviews by interacting with the members of the search committee of different universities and faculty candidates. Through this session, I could connect and interact with researchers from different parts of the world who work in the areas of materials science and engineering and learnt from their experiences being on the job market.
Jasneet Kaur
Brock University, Canada
Additional Resources
- Example Abstracts and Titles from previous events » here
- MRS Tip Sheet: Tips for the "Meet the New Faculty Candidates" Poster Session » here
- MRS Tip Sheet: 9 Ways to Market Yourself for Your Faculty Dream Job » here
- Relevant Webinars:
- MRS Presents: Landing Your Faculty Dream Job » here
- How to Land a Faculty Position - From Application to Interview: The Academic Market in Europe (Part 1) » here
- How to Land a Faculty Position - From Application to Interview: Academic Positions in the U.S. (Part 2) » here
- How to Land a Faculty Position - From Application to Interview: Primarily Undergraduate Institutions (Part 3) » here
- Additional Career-Focused Webinars and Tip Sheets can be found here
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