Search for the Vice Chancellor for Research

UC San Diego is pleased to invite nominations and applications for the position of Vice Chancellor for Research (VCR). We have enlisted the assistance of a leading executive search firm Storbeck Search/Diversified Search Group to help us manage the search process. Kit Pogliano, Dean of Biological Sciences, has agreed to chair the Search Advisory Committee, whose members are listed below.

Member of the Search Advisory Committee for the Vice Chancellor for Research:

Kit Pogliano, Dean, Division of Biological Sciences, Chair
Ilkay Altintas, Chief Data Science Officer, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Cheryl Anderson, Dean, Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science
Doug Bartlett, Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Craig Callender, Professor, Division of Arts and Humanities
Tai Ming Cheung, Director/Professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy
Neal Driscoll, Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Fonna Forman, Associate Professor, Division of Social Sciences
Sharon Franks, Director, Research Development, VCR
Rajesh Gupta, Director, Halicioğlu Data Science Institute
Tracy Handel, Professor, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Christopher Glass, Professor, School of Medicine
Susan Golden, Professor, Division of Biological Sciences
Aneesh Manohar, Professor, Division of Physical Sciences
Quynh P. Nguyen, President, Graduate & Professional Student Association
Lisa Ordóñez, Dean, Rady School of Management
Padmini Rangamani, Professor, Jacobs School of Engineering
Gabriel Rebeiz, Professor, Jacobs School of Engineering
Davey Smith, Professor, School of Medicine
Ruth Williams, Professor, Division of Physical Sciences

The VCR reports directly to the Chancellor, with a dotted-line reporting to the Executive Vice Chancellor-Academic Affairs. The VCR works closely and regularly with all academic vice chancellors: Executive Vice Chancellor-Academic Affairs, Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences and Vice Chancellor for Marine Sciences. The VCR serves on the Chancellor’s Cabinet, advises the Chancellor, EVC, VCHS, and VCMS on research matters for faculty and students, research-related budget priorities and resource allocations; advocates for equity, diversity and inclusion within Office of Research Administration (ORA) and in research at UC San Diego.

The VCR has overall managerial responsibility for UC San Diego's research enterprise. The VCR manages the overall research administration and initiates, coordinates, and administers policies, procedures, and activities which enhance research on the campus; oversees General Campus organized research units (ORUs) and multi-campus research units (MRUs); facilitates the development of proposals for extramural funding of research; fosters interaction with federal, state, and private agencies and with industry to promote campus research programs; coordinates campus policies and practices related to university interaction with industry; creates new opportunities for enhancing research activities and research funding on campus through partnerships with other institutions, foundations, and federal and state granting agencies. In addition, the VCR manages several areas including Research Compliance and Integrity, IRB, Institutional Animal Care, Commercialization and Tech Transfer, and Contracts and Grants Administration.

Through a series of listening sessions with various constituencies on campus to be held before the end of March, the search firm will develop a comprehensive position profile that includes challenges and opportunities for the next VCR. The Search Advisory Committee will begin reviewing candidates soon after the position profile is developed and will continue until the position is filled.

Direct inquiries and nominations should be emailed to Jim Sirriani, Partner and Julie Tea, Partner at Storbeck Search at ucsdvcresearch@storbecksearch.com. You need not contact the nominee to ascertain if they are willing to be considered as a candidate. All nominees will be contacted in confidence by the search firm, to discuss their willingness to have their names put forward to the search advisory committee.

Pradeep K. Khosla
Chancellor