Do you want to be my boss – or at least one of my bosses?

bq.. “The Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS)”:http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/ruccs/index.php at the New Brunswick Campus of Rutgers University is searching for a new director. We are looking for an outstanding scholar with proven administrative abilities and a vision for the future of cognitive science at Rutgers. Highly desirable is experience in obtaining and administering interdisciplinary, multi-investigator grants. Intellectual breadth—an ability to understand and articulate the contributions from the principal disciplines that compose cognitive science is important, as is the ability to effectively represent the interests of RuCCS inside and outside Rutgers. Fund raising ability and community/industry outreach also desired.

Description of Center
A primary goal of the Center is to foster research on the nature of symbolic processes constitutive of intelligent performance, emphasizing foundational and computational approaches. The goal is to understand such aspects of intelligent performance as perception, language processing, planning, problem solving, reasoning, learning and knowledge formation, in terms of the underlying computational processes. The Center’s mission is essentially multi-disciplinary. It promotes the integration of techniques and knowledge drawn from experimental psychology, computer science, neuroscience, philosophy, linguistics, mathematics, and engineering. The Center offers a Cognitive Science Certificate for graduate students and supports a minor and independent major for undergraduates. RuCCS has 22 jointly appointed faculty members at present. It also has an additional 30 associates housed in various departments who play an active role in the intellectual life of the Center. At the present time the principal contributing disciplines are psychology, computer science, linguistics and philosophy. The policies of the Center are set in consultation with an executive committee which has representation from several participating departments.

Candidates should be at the Full Professor level. Salary is negotiable. Consideration of applications will begin on March 29, 2010, but applications will be considered until the position is filled. Send a letter of interest that outlines your qualifications for the position as well as a CV to:

Search Committee Staff
Rutgers University
Center for Cognitive Science
152 Frelinghuysen Road, Psychology Building Addition
Piscataway, NJ 08854

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Fax: 732-445-6715

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Email to: “dirsearch@ruccs.rutgers.edu”:mailto:dirsearch@ruccs.rutgers.edu