Assistant / Associate / Full Professor Architecture and City Design Department

About the Department and Role

The Architecture & City Design Department at KFUPM invites applications for faculty positions at the Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor levels. The department's focus is on the study, planning, and design of cities, with a particular emphasis on Smart & Sustainable Cities programs. This work integrates spatial intelligence, sustainability, systems thinking, quantitative analysis, and emerging technologies. These contract positions are based in Riyadh and Dhahran, offering a competitive tax-free salary based on qualifications and experience.

Research Focus Areas

The department prioritizes research in several key areas, encouraging connections to AI, data science, computational methods, digital technologies, and other relevant university research strengths:

• Urban planning and development: Including land use, housing, urban economics, governance, growth, and transformation.
• Urban analytics and spatial intelligence: Covering GIS, spatial analysis, urban data science, GeoAI, remote sensing, modeling, digital twins, and urban sensing.
• Urban form and mobility: Encompassing morphology, transport interactions, accessibility, smart mobility, transit-oriented development, and walkability.
• Urban environment and resilience: Including urban climate, sustainability, environmental performance, sustainable infrastructure, and arid-city sustainability.
• City design and livability: Focusing on public space, placemaking, human experience, cultural sustainability, and human-centered smart cities.

Key Responsibilities

• Teach undergraduate and graduate courses within departmental programs.
• Establish and maintain a productive, internationally visible research program.
• Publish high-quality peer-reviewed research.
• Pursue competitive research funding where appropriate.
• Supervise undergraduate and graduate research.
• Contribute to curriculum and program development.
• Engage in interdisciplinary collaboration.
• Provide departmental and university service.
• Engage with government, industry, and professional organizations as relevant.

Qualifications and Requirements

• A ** is required, demonstrating a strong disciplinary foundation and rigorous research methods.
• Relevant backgrounds include urban planning, urban design, architecture, geography, geospatial science, environmental studies, transportation, urban economics, computational urbanism, or related fields aligned with the department's mission.
• Ability to contribute to interdisciplinary urban research.
• Capacity to develop internationally competitive research.
• Ability to contribute to Smart & Sustainable Cities education.
• Proficiency in using rigorous methods appropriate to the candidate's research area.
• A strong refereed-journal publication record.
• Experience in graduate research supervision.
• Relevant university-level teaching experience.

Departmental Values

The department values interdisciplinary collaboration, partnership development, and research that addresses Saudi Arabia's urban transformation while maintaining wider international relevance.