October 16, 2025
The Department of Forest Resources at the University of Minnesota seeks outstanding applicants for a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor faculty position focused on forest regeneration dynamics. This may include focus areas of early stand dynamics, forest genetics, climate-adaptive seed/tree selection, nursery systems, or environmental stress physiology, which may fall within broader disciplines such as silviculture, restoration ecology, or forest operations. The role is a 9-month, full-time, tenure-track faculty position with research (50%) and teaching (50%) responsibilities.
The successful candidate will build a nationally recognized research program that advances fundamental knowledge critical to establishing, maintaining, and improving forest regeneration and productivity, develop tools and techniques related to adaptive forest management for a changing climate, and support the viability, health, resilience, and function of forest ecosystems and the forest sector regionally and nationally. This is an exciting opportunity to add your expertise to a dynamic, collaborative department with strengths in silviculture, forest ecology, forest mensuration, human dimensions of natural resources, natural resource policy and economics, remote sensing, urban forestry, and Tribal natural resource management and collaboration.
The position is available beginning August 2026, with review of applications beginning December 8, 2025.
Visit the job posting to learn more and apply: z.umn.edu/forest-regeneration-position