Responsibilities: The Department of Food Science at the University of Tennessee seeks outstanding candidates for a 9-month, tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professor to perform research in the growing area of microbial communities. The successful applicant will develop a high-impact, nationally recognized research and teaching program focusing on interactions between microbiomes/microbial communities of human foods, processing environments, fermentation products, and processes to improve food safety, quality, and human health. Successful candidates will develop courses related to identification, characterization, and functionality of food and human microbial communities to inform food fermentations, food processing, food safety interventions, and public health inter