About The Department
Environmental Engineering Department is dedicated to addressing environmental challenges through innovative engineering solutions. Key areas of focus include water and wastewater treatment, air quality management, sustainable design, and waste management.
The department emphasizes hands-on learning, interdisciplinary collaboration, and community engagement. It aims to train engineers who can develop solutions to mitigate pollution, manage natural resources, and ensure public health. The ultimate goal is to foster a sustainable future through innovative engineering and scientific research.
Job Description
At NewUU, we offer stability and long-term horizon planning with a strong work-life balance. We invite applications from academics at all stages in their careers to pursue their research and educational goals with us. While recent graduates and postdoctoral researchers can pursue their tenure-track careers within our schools with strong contracts and research support, recent emeriti might want to actualize their leadership projects and ideas helping build NewUU’s human resources and institutional capacity.
Our tenure-track and tenured faculty will teach a
maximum of three classes per year, in a 2+1 format, or
12 hours per week, which might be reduced based on research projects, field service, and administrative load. Uzbekistan has a desirable flat 12% income tax regime, and NewUU is ready to take care of relocation, accommodation matching, and supplies internationally competitive benefits including full healthcare.
Requirements From Candidates
- Ph.D. degree from a reputed University in Environmental Engineering or a closely related field;
- Teaching and research experience for the Full-time Professor rank, at least 10 years;
- Associate Professor rank, at least 5 years;
- Assistant Professor rank, at least 1 year
- International track record of research and professional achievements;
- Excellent record in teaching/overseeing undergraduate, graduate, and Ph.D. programs.
Your Remuneration, Benefits, And Support
- One round-trip air ticket;
- Accommodation;
- Visa assistance;
- Relocation package;
- Standard medical insurance;
- Book allowances;
- Rеimbursеmеnt of expenses related to the participation in international соnfеrеnсеs.
About New Uzbekistan University
New Uzbekistan University (NewUU) is Uzbekistan’s first comprehensive research university where research and education are integrated. Located at the heart of greater Central Asia, we are building the nation’s first autonomous institution as the country embarks to conclude its first decade of political and market economy reforms. In a long road ahead of making lasting transformations, the country aims to have its first globally ranked institution among the 1000 best universities in the world by 2030.
NewUU aims to become Central Asia’s premier university through an official partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Jameel Abdul Latif-World Education Lab (J-WEL) and Technical University of Munich (TUM) International. The Honorary President of NewUU is Professor Wolfgang Hermann, TUM’s president emeritus – one of the world’s leaders in higher education management and academic research.
There are four schools and ten departments within the institution:
- Engineering School with two departments: Mechanical Engineering, Chemical & Materials Engineering;
- School of Computing with three departments : Computer Science, AI, and Cybersecurity;
- School of Arts, Humanities, Natural & Social Sciences with four departments: Economics, Mathematics, Physics, Education;
- School of Management with one department: Industrial Management
