The Federated Department of Biological Sciences at Rutgers University-Newark seeks to hire an evolutionary biologist to fill a tenure-track vacancy in the Ecology and Evolution section of the Department effective September 2016 at the assistant professor level. Applications at the associate and full professor levels will also be considered. We seek applications from researchers who use innovative approaches to address fundamental evolutionary questions firmly grounded in organismal biology. We especially encourage applications from individuals working in one or more of the following areas: systematics, population and evolutionary genomics, species interactions, functional and behavioral biology, population biology, biodiversity, and diversification (speciation rate). This position build