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Asad Naqvi

After completing his formal education, he held post-doctoral positions at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Amsterdam before joining the University of Wales, Swansea in October 2005 as an assistant professor.

Chu Ching-wu

After two years of performing industrial research with Bell Laboratories at Murray Hill, New Jersey, Chu was appointed Assistant Professor of Physics at Cleveland State University in 1970.

David Dumville

He has previously taught or held posts at Swansea University (Fellow, 1975-77), the University of Pennsylvania (assistant professor of English, 1977-78), the University of Cambridge, (lecturer in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, 1977-91; reader in early Mediaeval history and culture of British Isles, 1991-95; professor of palaeography and cultural history, 1995-2005), and University of California, Berkeley (1997).

David Graeber

Specialising in theories of value and social theory, he was an assistant professor and associate professor of anthropology at Yale University from 1998 to 2007, although Yale controversially declined to rehire him.

Evelyn Farkas

Prior to assuming that position she served for four years on the faculty of the U.S. Marine Corps Command and Staff College, Marine Corps University as assistant professor and then associate professor of international relations.

John Bradford Fisher

In 1982, Fisher enlisted in for the United States Navy; in 1983, he became one of the youngest Chiefs of Department of Plastic Surgery at the National Naval Medical Center, and was appointed Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.

Max Margolis

In 1891 he was appointed to a fellowship in Semitic languages at Columbia University, and from 1892 to 1897 he was instructor, and later assistant professor, of Hebrew language and Biblical exegesis at the Hebrew Union College of Cincinnati.


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Ágoston Pável

Pável gained a scholarship, was exempted from tuition fees and taught as an assistant professor, where one of his students was Albert Szent-Györgyi, later a Nobel Prize winner in Physiology.

Agyenim Boateng

He worked as an Assistant Professor in Alabama State University in Montgomery, Alabama and also at Daniel Payne College in Birmingham, Alabama where he served as Assistant Professor of Political and Social Science.

Akira Fujishima

On completing his Ph.D. in 1971 he became assistant professor at Kanagawa University but returned to the University of Tokyo in 1975 as assistant professor in the Department of Applied Chemistry.

Antonio Mignucci

Academic positions include Assistant Professor of Biology and Environmental Sciences at the University of Puerto Rico (1996–1998), Professor of Oceanography and Environmental Sciences at the Universidad Metropolitana (1998–2005), and Research Professor of Marine Sciences at the Inter American University of Puerto Rico, Bayamón Campus (2009 to present).

Apprenticeship learning

Apprenticeship learning, or apprenticeship via inverse reinforcement learning (AIRP), is a concept in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning, developed by Pieter Abbeel, Assistant Professor in Berkeley's EECS department, and Andrew Ng, Associate Professor in Stanford University's Computer Science Department.

Arthur Huang

From the age of 26, Huang started teaching, first, as a full-time professor at the prestigious Tunghai University Architecture Program, then as a part-time Assistant Professor at NCTU.

Arthur Komar

Later in 1957, he went to Syracuse University as a postdoc to research quantum gravity - collaborating with Peter Bergmann, and remained at Syracuse as assistant professor and associate professor, until 1963 when he left to join the Physics Department at Yeshiva University in New York City.

Arvind Raghunathan

For the next three years, Raghunathan was Assistant Professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University and the University of California, Davis, where he accomplished fundamental research on computing.

Asha Pande

She passed higher secondary in 1971 from Pune and moved to Delhi with her eldest brother, the late Dr. M.P. Pande, who had a doctorate degree in Russian and was an assistant professor of the language at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).

Benedikt Löwe

Since early 2000 he is Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam, and since late 2000s also Professor at the University of Hamburg.

Chad Blinman

Relocating to Boston in 2010, Blinman joined the Berklee College of Music faculty as Assistant Professor of Music Production and Engineering.

Chang Hsien-yao

Chang had been teaching at Taiwanese universities as assistant professor at Nanhua University, Central Police University and Chinese Culture University.

Dallas Chamber Symphony International Piano Competition

The event’s 2013 jury panel included Andrey Ponochevny, Bronze Medal Winner of the 2002 International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow; Dr. Young-Hyun Cho, Assistant Professor of Piano for The University of Texas at Arlington and international master instructor; and Dr. Pamela Mia Paul, Regents Professor of Piano at the University of North Texas and critically acclaimed Steinway artist.

Daniel Chonghan Hong

In the year 1988 he became an assistant professor at the physics department of the Lehigh University.

Elfriede Moser-Rath

In 1969 she went to the University of Göttingen as an assistant professor to work under Professor Rolf Wilhelm Brednich on the Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales (Enzyklopädie des Märchens).

Eric H. du Plessis

After graduating from VCU with a degree in philosophy, he studied at the University of Richmond, where he received a master's degree, and then went on to the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, Virginia, where he obtained his Ph.D. He then relocated to College Station, Texas where he became an assistant professor at Texas A&M University.

Fabien Lévy

A former pedagogical advisor at IRCAM in Paris and professor of orchestration at the Hanns Eisler Music Conservatory in Berlin, he is currently assistant professor in composition at Columbia University in New York and senior professor for composition at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold in Germany.

François Lonseny Fall

Fall received a master's degree in law from the University of Conakry in 1976 and was Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law at the same university from 1977 to 1979.

Gary Chaison

In 1973, Chaison was named an assistant professor at the University of New Brunswick.

Gerry Mackie

Before joining UCSD, Mackie was assistant professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, a research fellow at the Australian National University, and a junior research fellow at St John's College, Oxford.

Heymann Steinthal

From 1852 to 1855 Steinthal resided in Paris, where he devoted himself to the study of Chinese, and in 1863 he was appointed assistant professor at the Berlin University; from 1872 he was also privat-dozent in critical history of the Old Testament and in religious philosophy at the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judenthums.

Hinduism in Croatia

The Embassy had nominated the Assistant Professor teaching Hindi in the Zagreb University to attend the Regional Hindi Conference held in Budapest in 2002 and Bucharest in July 2004.

Iain Cheeseman

Cheeseman is currently a junior Faculty Member at Whitehead Institute and an Assistant Professor at MIT.

Jakob Yngvason

Yngvason was assistant professor at the University of Göttingen 1973–1978, 1978–1985 research scientist at the Science Institute of the University of Iceland and 1985–1996 professor of theoretical physics at the University of Iceland.

Janil Puthucheary

Since 2007, he has also been an Assistant Professor and Medical Director for Faculty Development at the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School.

John E. Frank

In 2009 he became a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and in 2010, he became an Assistant Professor of Clinical Otolarygology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeon.

Jordi Folch Pi

In 1944, with only 33 years of age, Folch was appointed director of the new Biological Research Laboratory at the McLean Hospital (a division of Massachusetts General Hospital) and assistant professor of biological chemistry at Harvard Medical School to develop a program in Neuroscience.

Kan'ichi Asakawa

He lectured at Dartmouth College in 1902; was a professor at Waseda University (1906–07); an instructor at Yale University (1907–10); and became an assistant professor at Yale University in 1910.

Karl Bowman

During his career, Bowman was the chief medical officer at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital; an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (1921–1936); the chief of psychiatry at Bellevue Hospital (1936–1941); a professor of psychiatry at New York University Medical College (1936–1941); the first chairman and director of the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute (1941–1956); and a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

Kitty Poon

Poon joined the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in August 2005 and was promoted in 2006 to the post as an Assistant Professor of the Department of Applied Social Sciences.

Lane Kenworthy

Kenworthy worked ass assistant professor of sociology at Rochester Institute of Technology 1994–1995 and held the same position at East Carolina University 1995–2000.

M Aslam Khan Malik

On his return from UK he joined Rawalpindi Medical College and Holy Family Hospital as assistant professor and established and played a pivotal part in running very successful FFA.Ultrasanography and Laser Units.

M. Elizabeth Osborn

In the 1970s, she was an Assistant Professor of Theatre at St. Mary's College of Maryland.

Maja Matarić

She joined the faculty at Brandeis University as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science in January 1995, then moved to the University of Southern California in 1997 as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science with a courtesy appointment in the Neuroscience Program.

Marci Shore

She was also a postdoctoral fellow at the Harriman Institute, an assistant professor of history and Jewish studies at Indiana University, and the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Visiting Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at Yale.

Mark Epstein

He is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine.

Matko Vekić

From 1996 to 1999 he worked as a lecturer of drawing and painting at the School of Applied Arts and Design in Zagreb, and from 1999 to 2003 he was a teaching assistant (later assistant professor) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Široki Brijeg, University of Mostar.

Mike Grenby

He is currently an Assistant Professor of Communications at Bond University.

Neal Flomenbaum

Dr. Flomenbaum has held academic appointments as Assistant Professor of Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and New York University (NYU) School of Medicine.

Patricia Hogan

Prior to becoming a Professor at Northern Michigan University, Hogan was an Assistant Professor and Assistant Research Scientist at New York University (from 1981–83; then again 1985-91) in New York City, New York.

Phillips University

Daniel Nicholson - Assistant Professor of Legal Research and Writing, University of Oklahoma College of Law

Pnin

Pnin, a refugee in his 50s from both Communist Russia and what he calls the "Hitler war", is an assistant professor of Russian at fictional Waindell College, possibly modeled on Cornell University or Wellesley College, both being places where Nabokov himself taught.

Richard Cloward

Cloward became an assistant professor at Columbia's School of Social Work in 1954, and had visiting posts at the Hebrew University, the University of Amsterdam, the University of California, Santa Barbara and Arizona State University.

Robert T. Lackey

In 1971, Lackey was awarded a PhD (Fisheries and Wildlife) and was hired immediately by Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, Virginia) as an assistant professor of fisheries.

Rommel Banlaoi

He also served as assistant professor in international studies at De La Salle University from 1997 to 1998, instructor in political science at the University of the Philippines (Los Banos) from 1992 to 1995, and in 1996 University Research Associate at the University of the Philippines (UP Diliman), where he took his BA, MA and PhD (ABD or All But Dissertation status) all in Political Science.

Slobodan Obradov

In 1954 he was elected assistant professor, in 1961 as professor and in 1968 as tenured professor of the medical faculty in Sarajevo.

Thomas Blom Hansen

He has two children with his first wife, and is married to an Assistant Professor at Stanford Sharika Thiranagama, daughter of the Tamil activist Rajini Thiranagama (1954 –1989).

Watanabe Jun

After completing the award winning Makuhari Messe as a project architect with Maki & Associates, he took a post as assistant professor of architecture at the University of Texas at Austin in 1990, where he received the tenure professorship in 1996.

Weird City

Joshua Long is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Southwestern University.