Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Neurobiology & Behavior

The Department of Neurobiology and Behavior in UC Irvine's School of Biological Sciences is recruiting a tenure-track Assistant Professor who uses molecular, cellular, circuit, systems, computational, organoid or behavioural approaches to understand the biological bases of behaviour and its disorders. The department is specifically interested in research on addiction and related disorders, including the intersection of social environment with drug use and the comorbidity of drug use with psychiatric, metabolic or infectious disease.

The hire can draw on UCI centres including the Irvine Center for Addiction Neuroscience, the Center for Neural Circuit Mapping, the Center for Neurobiology of Learning and Memory and the Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders. Applications received by 1 December 2026 receive full consideration; the posted salary range is $93,500-$121,400.

PhD, MD-PhD or equivalent, with evidence of a rigorous research programme; prior extramural funding is viewed positively. CV, three-page research statement, one-page teaching and mentoring statement, and contacts for three referees.