• A joint appointment with Chemical Engineering. We seek someone with deep technical skills and research accomplishment in Chemical Engineering who wishes to spend at least a portion of their time addressing important problems in public policy in which technical details and analysis are of central importance. We are open with respect to specific problem domains but would be particularly interested in candidates with interests in green process design and operations,technical and policy policy issues in nano and/or biotechnology, clean and alternative energy technologies. We are prepared to consider candidates at any level. At a junior level we will consider candidates with strong technical backgrounds and clearly articulated policy interests. At senior levels we require both substantial technical accomplishment and a clear track-record of policy-analytic accomplishment. For information on the Department of Chemical Engineering see www.cheme.cmu.edu.
  
  
• Someone in biotechnology. We are prepared to explore possible joint appointments with the department of Biomedical Engineering, or with the departments of Biology, Chemical Engineering, or Civil and Environmental Engineering. Topics of interest include: studies of the regulatory, ecological, and other implications and consequences of Genetically Modified Organisms; research on the early detection of bioattack and on response strategies for managing the risks of bioterror; studies of how best to balance legitimate conflicting social objectives (civil liberty, privacy, national security) in the use of biometric and genomic technologies; strategies for regulating the creation of genetically engineered pathogens without squelching the innovative spirit that drives the biotechnology industry; development and demonstration of new methods to use incomplete and uncertain toxicological, epidemiological and other bio-information in environmental decision making; policy analysis on the management and use of stem cell research; cloning; genome sequencing, etc.; studies of industry structure, bio-tech related industrial policy and intellectual property; research on issues in informed consent, drug and other consumer labeling; and studies in the provision of computer support to both medical professionals and patients in medical and health decision making.
  
  
• Perhaps a political scientist and/or a resource economist. While the average political scientist would not fit in EPP, we are most interested in finding a political scientist and/or a resource economist who is interested in topics such as regulatory policy, R&D policy, agent-based modeling, management of technology, or other issues related to the problem areas addressed in EPP. Our primary problem in making such an appointment is finding a social science unit in which such a candidate will fit for a 50:50 appointment.
  
  

While at the moment our greatest need is for engineers who have policy and social science skills, we are also interested in talking with candidates who have the reverse combination and wish to pursue research in which technical issues are important. EPP has worked extensively on issues of risk perception and risk communication. We have also worked on a wide variety of problems in the area of behavioral decision making. We are interested in: problems in valuation such as those associated with valuing ecological and environmental impacts; problems at the interface between organizational behavior and policy formulation and implementation; issues of R&D policy, technology diffusion and adoption; methodological issues involving analysis outside the normal domains of conventional policy analysis (cross-cultural, long time constants, large resources, etc.).

Please send resume, samples of recent writings, and a list of references to: Professor Granger Morgan, Head, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, 129 Baker Hall, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA 15213 (granger.morgan@andrew.cmu.edu).