Experience with and outstanding promise in research devoted to one or more of the following categories: applied and computational mathematics, fast numerical methods, open-source software development, colloidal and soft matter systems, mathematical biology at the cell scale, and applied partial differential equations. Research interests within the department are broad, varied, and frequently interdisciplinary in nature, including mathematical biology, mathematical geosciences, applied partial differential equations, environmental and spatial statistics, scientific computing, and the scholarship of teaching and learning.