The Department of Mechanical Engineering at Keio University, Japan invites applications for a tenured faculty position at the level of Assistant or Associate Professor to start on April 1st, 2026. The appointment is contingent upon completion of the Ph.D. degree. We are seeking researchers with expertise in mechanical and civil engineering, or related disciplines who apply advanced theoretical, computational, and/or experimental methods to study global problems including large-scale environmental and climate phenomena. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Environmental fluid mechanics
- Atmospheric or oceanic modeling
- Hydrology and water resources engineering
- Climate system dynamics
- Infrastructure resilience under climate change
- Geoenvironmental engineering
- Computational modeling of environmental systems
The successful candidate is expected to:
- perform internationally recognized research as a principal investigator in collaboration with graduate and undergraduate students, and colleagues in the department,
- teach with passion undergraduate and graduate courses in mechanical engineering as well as to design new courses to meet the need for the future,
- actively contribute to international activity of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, and Keio University.
