2017-2018 Physical Science & Engineering Area Committee and Tenure Appointments Committee

The Tenure, Appointments and Promotions Committees (TACs) include a group of Full Professors from the relevant area (Humanities; Social Sciences; Biological Sciences; Physical Sciences, Engineering and Applied Sciences) who serve as members of the area committee, along with a representative from a department or program outside the area (the “outside member”). In cases involving faculty from one of the School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) departments, the Dean of the SEAS also sits on the committee as a voting member. Each Area Committee is chaired by the Divisional Dean or Director of its corresponding academic division, and the Dean of the FAS oversees the four TACs. TACs review all appointments and promotions to the ranks of Associate Professor on term (Nontenured associate, AOPN); Associate Professor without term (Tenured associate, AOPT); and Professor (PROF).

Committee Membership

Pieter van Dokkum | Committee Chair, Physical Sciences and Engineering Advisory Committee; Sol Goldman Family Professor of Astronomy and Professor of Physics

Hui Cao | Professor of Applied Physics and of Physics

Debra Fischer (fall only) | Professor of Astronomy and of Geology and Geophysics

Bonnie Fleming | Professor of Physics

Karsten Heeger (spring only) | Professor of Physics

Seth Herzon | Professor of Chemistry

Mark Johnson | Arthur T. Kemp Professor of Chemistry

Peter Jones | James E. English Professor of Mathematics

Andre Levchenko | John C. Malone Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Holly Rushmeier (fall only) | Professor of Computer Science

Hong Tang | Llewellyn West Jones, Jr. Professor of Engineering

John Wettlaufer (fall only) | A. M. Bateman Professor of Geology and Geophysics and Professor of Mathematics and of Physics

Tenure and Appointments Committee Members Only

Tamar Szabó Gendler | Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Vincent J. Scully Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

Yuichi Kitamura | Professor of Economics and Management

TAC Member for Cases in Engin​eering and Applied Science

Kyle Vanderlick (fall only) | TAC Member for Cases in Engineering and Applied Science: Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Science; Thomas E. Golden, Jr. Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering.

Mitchell Smooke (spring only) | Acting Dean of the School of Engineering & Applied Science, Strathcona Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science