Head of Department of Chemistry

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Head of Department of Chemistry

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King’s College London

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The Department of Chemistry aims to be an international centre of excellence that transcends the boundaries of chemistry, to explore new frontiers at discipline interfaces, and to provide fundamental solutions for a sustainable and healthy society.The strategy enshrines the rigour of the discipline in a progressive interdisciplinary context, designed to produce a new generation of scientists fluent across traditional subject boundaries. The cross-fertilisation of physical, biological and engineering sciences enables our graduates to harness the transformative power of chemistry and tackle emerging challenges in modern society and medicine.As one of five departments within the Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences (NMES) we are now searching for a Head of Department, during an exciting period of expansion under the King’s Interdisciplinary Science investment. We are looking for an inclusive, creative, and visionary leader to work with the wider faculty to continue to develop our reputation as an internationally leading, interdisciplinary department.We expect you to have an academic reputation in a relevant field, and a genuine passion for education and research. In addition to leading the department, you will play an active role in the senior management of NMES, contribute to the wider strategy, and work closely with the Executive Dean, fellow department heads and vice deans. You will bring drive and leadership experience, and be committed to developing a supportive, inclusive and collaborative culture in an academically young and dynamic department. You will also be excited and committed to developing collaborations across the whole King’s community and external partners.For further information and to apply for this role visit the , please go to the King’s College London and submit the specified documentation. Informal enquiries may be made to the King’s Search Team; please contact Matthew Granger at .The deadline for applications is 23.59 hours on Thursday 13th February 2025. The selection process will include two stage interview process and stakeholder engagement. Final interviews are scheduled to be held in Late March.King’s College London is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and through this appointment process it is our aim to develop candidate pools that include applicants from all backgrounds and communities. King’s particularly welcomes applications from women, people from black and minority ethnic communities, the LGBT+ community and from disabled people.CompanyKing’s College London is one of the top 20 universities in the world and among the oldest in England. King’s has more than 27,600 students (of whom nearly 10,500 are graduate students) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 6,800 staff.King’s has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) King’s was ranked 6th nationally in the ‘power’ ranking, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity, and 7th for quality according to Times Higher Education rankings. Eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). The university is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of more than £684 million.King’s has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs. It has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar.King’s College London and Guy’s and St Thomas’, King’s College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts are part of King’s Health Partners. King’s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering global collaboration between one of the world’s leading research-led universities and three of London’s most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, including leading teaching hospitals and comprehensive mental health services. For more information, visit: .King’s £600 million campaign, World questions|KING’s answers, has delivered huge global impact in areas where King’s has particular expertise. Philanthropic support has funded new research to save young lives at Evelina London Children’s Hospital; established the King’s Dickson Poon School of Law as a worldwide leader in transnational law; built a new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital; allowed unique collaboration between leading neuroscientists to fast-track new treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, motor neurone disease, depression and schizophrenia at the new Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute; created the Cicely Saunders Institute: the first academic institution in the world dedicated to palliative care, and supported the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership in the Ebola crisis. Donations provide over 300 of the most promising students with scholarships and bursaries each year. More information about the campaign is available at .Company info Mini-site Telephone +(44)02078365454 Location STRAND
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London

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Thu, 16 Jan 2025 07:01:09 GMT

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