The 2025 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List: 459 research/teaching positions and 76 teaching positions

The 2025 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List (curated by Andrew Spaeth and myself) has 459 research/teaching positions and 76 teaching positions. 

Want to help out? Here's a Google Form to enter positions.

To see trending, go to Andrew Spaeth's visualization of previous years' list.

On January 2, 2024, the 2024 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List had 491 research/teaching positions and 64 teaching positions.

Want to talk anonymously? Have an update on the status of a job search? This is the link to the second open thread. This is the link to the first open thread.

Don't forget to click on "load more" below the comment box for the full thread. 

Are you having problems accessing the Google Sheet because of a Google Documents error? Email me at chemjobber@gmail.com and I will send you an Excel download of the latest sheet. 

Postdoctoral position: haptics, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel

From the inbox: 

Postdoc Position – Chemist for a New Type of Haptics/Soft Robotics

We are seeking a talented and motivated Postdoc for the fully funded position as a part of the new international (France-Israel) IonicHap project: “IonicHap: Sustainable Ionic Interfaces for Immersive Haptic Applications”.

Your profile:

Organic chemist/materials scientist with strong interest in developing new type of haptics based on the advanced functionality of ionic polymers. Experience of research at the nexus between chemistry/materials and haptics/soft robotics is a strong benefit.

What to expect:

You will perform your research at the Physical AI (PAI) lab at Ben-Gurion University in Beer Sheva, Israel (base location; affiliation) and at the RAINBOW Group (Sensor-based and Interactive Robotics) at CNRS/IRISA, The French Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Digital Science and Technology in Rennes, France.

For information about the labs, visit the following websites:

PAI Lab: http://www.labpai.com

RAINBOW Group: https://team.inria.fr/rainbow/

For inquiries, please contact Dr. Aslan Miriyev at miriyev@bgu.ac.il.

To apply:

1. Please email your application to (single email, sent to both addresses):

• Dr. Aslan Miriyev: miriyev@bgu.ac.il
• Dr. Claudio Pacchierotti: claudio.pacchierotti@irisa.fr

2. In the email, please attach the following documents:

• Letter of motivation (also mention the earliest date of your availability for the position)
• Full CV, including your current position and address, and a full publication list
• List of three references who can provide recommendation letters (provide full details)
• PDFs of two of your select publications.

3. Title your email “Postdoc Candidate for IonicHap”.

Best wishes to those interested.  

The Chemical Engineering Faculty Jobs List: 114 research/teaching positions and 17 teaching positions

The Chemical Engineering Faculty Jobs List (by Heather LeClerc and Daniyal Kiani) has 114 research/teaching positions and 17 teaching positions. 

Here is a link to the open thread for the year.

Domestic saffron?

For the first post of 2025, an exploration of saffron via the New York Times: 

...In 2021, Peace and Plenty harvested 700,000 flowers, which yielded about 3.5 kilograms of saffron. Ms. Price sold it to home cooks, and to chefs.

...Despite her success, Ms. Price now cultivates a smaller saffron crop. She has battled weeds and aggressive gophers. Harvesting saffron is backbreaking work. First, the tiny flowers are picked on hands and knees in the dark; saffron crocuses are best harvested before the sun rises and the flowers open. Then each stigma must be meticulously removed by hand.

“I was doing one flower per five seconds at my fastest, which sounds good,” she said. “But when you have 50,000 to do, it’s daunting.”

$10,000/kilogram for the global price, wow! Pretty interesting - read the whole thing.