The successful candidate will have opportunities to collaborate with faculty affiliated with interdisciplinary initiatives and centers including the Institute for Digital and Advanced Agricultural Systems, Institute for Plant Sciences, Center for Plant Biology, Institute for Digital Forestry, Institute for a Sustainable Future, Indiana Water Resources Research Center, Institute for Physical Artificial Intelligence (IPAI), Purdue Computes, Purdues One Health Initiative, and a growing ecosystem of AI, computing, sustainability, and resilient systems programs. D. degree by the start of appointment in agriculture, animal sciences, forestry and natural resources, biology, bioinformatics, ecology, environmental science, food science, engineering, computer science, data science, robotics, statistics, economics, applied mathematics, operations research, systems science, geography, computational science, quantitative social science, or a related discipline.