Physical Science & Engineering Area Committee and Tenure Appointments Committee 2015-2016

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

Scott Miller | Committee Chair; Divisional Director, Sciences; Chair, Physical Sciences and Engineering Advisory Committee; Irénée du Pont Professor of Chemistry

Sarbani Basu | Professor of Astronomy

David DeMille  | Professor of Physics

Mark Johnson | Arthur T. Kemp Professor of Chemistry

Brian Scassellati | Professor of Computer Science and of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Robert Schoelkopf | Sterling Professor of Applied Physics and Professor of Physics

Leandros Tassiulas | John C. Malone Professor of Electrical Engineering

Van Vu | Percey F. Smith Professor of Mathematics and Professor of Statistics

John Wettlaufer | A. M. Bateman Professor of Geology and Geophysics and Professor of Mathematics and Physics

Tenure 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

Susan Baserga | Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, of Genetics and of Therapeutic Radiology

TAC Member for Cases in Engineering and Applied Science

T. Kyle Vanderlick | Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Science; Thomas E. Golden, Jr. Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering