Faculty Recruitment Announcement
Department of Geography, National Taiwan University, invites applications for 1–2 full-time faculty positions (assistant, associate or full professor) in teaching and research, with an expected start date of August 2026. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. We welcome scholars whose expertise engages geographical/spatial issues across geography, earth and environmental sciences, urban and regional planning, land economics/land administration or related fields—either to strengthen the department’s interdisciplinary research in geography or to deepen technology applications to the humanities and social sciences, area studies, and environmental sustainability, including:
Track-1. Physical geography and the earth critical zone: Land surface processes, environmental ecology, soil science, remote-sensing hydrology, socio-ecological systems, land modeling and land use;
Track-2. Human geography and environmental studies: Local–regional development, economic geography, culture–society–nature studies, regional studies and geography, world regional geography and international development, and global environmental change (human development and policy dimensions);
Track-3. Interdisciplinary sustainability studies integrating natural and social/humanistic disciplines with active stakeholder participation.
Priority will be given to candidates able to teach one or more of the following courses: programming, cartography & geographic information systems (GIS), statistics (with lab), and spatial data analysis. We also welcome applicants whose teaching spans critical, cross-disciplinary work in human and technical/digital geographies (critical studies of digital technologies) or who have experience with critical fieldtrip/fieldwork pedagogy.
We seek candidates with strong potential to lead innovative geographic research, a passion for teaching, and a collaborative spirit to help expand our department’s interdisciplinary capacity.
Department information: http://www.geog.ntu.edu.tw/
Application materials: Please submit the following as a single set of PDF files:
1. A cover letter specifying the position track you are applying for (Track-1, 2 or 3), including a teaching plan and a research plan (teaching plans that cover one or more of the priority courses listed above will receive preference).
2. Curriculum vitae with a brief biography.
3. A copy of the Ph.D. diploma (or a letter from the advisor certifying that the degree will be conferred by July 2026).
4. A complete publication list.
5. One copy of each publication from the past five years (since April 2021). Please indicate if any are indexed by SCI/SSCI/TSSCI. In addition, designate one publication from the past three years (since April 2023) as your representative work. The representative work should be a paper already
published in an SCI/SSCI journal with the applicant as first author or corresponding author, or a work meeting an equivalent standard, such as a rigorously reviewed scholarly monograph.
6. Contact information for three referees.
Application deadline: November 20, 2025.
Please email application materials (PDF) to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Choy-ying Huang, Department of Geography, National Taiwan University).
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