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Assistant professor (tenure track)/Associate professor in Chemical Engineering

Employer
The Biological and Chemical Engineering Section (BCE) at Aarhus University
Location
Aarhus C, Aarhus (DK)
Salary
-
Closing date
Apr 5, 2019

The Biological and Chemical Engineering (BCE) Section within the Department of Engineering (www.eng.au.dk) at Aarhus University invites applications for 2-3 assistant professor (tenure track) or associate professor position in the field of Materials Engineering. The positions are available as soon as possible.
 
The University has made an ambitious strategic investment in a 5-year recruitment plan to increase its activities significantly within research and education in the engineering sciences, with the vision of bringing AU into the global engineering elite. Therefore, the University seeks exceptional innovative and visionary chemical engineering researchers to be part of this build-up to strengthen and develop BCE at Aarhus University.

Chemical Engineering at the Department of Engineering
The Biological and Chemical Engineering Section has strong research expertise within materials engineering. Close collaborations with the Departments of Chemistry, iNano, Physics and others are encouraged and routinely realized as part of our culture. The successful applicant will be working with the chemical basis of relevant processes and their translation into solving societal and industrial problems.
 
These positions will support the strategic agenda of the university by extending the current range of strong competences in BCE related to materials engineering. Possible topics for the positions are all related to materials research, and include, but is not restricted to one of the following research areas:

  • Plastic and Polymer materials
  • Functional Materials
  • Biobased polymers for circular use
  • Heterogeneous catalysis

 
For each of these positions, it is crucial that candidates hold a deep understanding of real-world systems and application in industrial production as well as end user consumption. Ability to relate research to achievement of UN sustainability goals will be emphasized as well.

The positions will be anchored in the department’s BCE section, and the candidates are expected to work closely with other researchers/groups within the section and department as well as with external stakeholders. The ability to work in a multidisciplinary team is essential.
The candidates must have excellent written and verbal communication skills. Relevant industrial R&D experience is considered positive. Candidates must, relative to their career stage, have an exceptional record of research accomplishment, a record of sustained external funding, with concomitant nationally or internationally recognized leadership in their field.
 
The candidates are expected to be able to drive the build-up of internationally competitive research activities, and/or contribute to strengthening the current research activities. Commitment to excellence in teaching at both undergraduate and graduate levels, including existing courses and development of new courses, is expected.
Further expectations for the various levels of appointment are:

Assistant professor (tenure track): Candidates must demonstrate potential for outstanding research and teaching. Some years of post-graduate research and publication experience is required. Experience from successful external research collaborations with industry and academia, project management skills, and experience in attraction of external funding is preferred.

Associate professor: Candidates must have a strong academic background, documented successful grant writing and experience with project management, industrial/public sector collaboration, as well as teaching and supervision experience. Criteria for evaluating candidates can be found here.

Science and Technology Tenure Track
Aarhus University offers talented scientists from around the world attractive career perspectives via the Science and Technology Tenure Track Program. Highly qualified candidates will be appointed for a period of six years with the prospect of performance-based advancement to a tenured position.

The aim of the Science and Technology Tenure Track Program is to:

  • attract outstandingly talented individuals that are competitive at an international level
  • promote the early development of independent research success early in the career of scientists
  • create transparency in the academic career path

As part of the tenure track position, the candidate will be offered:

  • access to research infrastructure
  • capability development, including postgraduate teacher training
  • a mentoring program
  • support to develop scientific networks and to secure interdisciplinary research at the highest level

As part of the Aarhus University Tenure Track Program, the University carries out a mid-way evaluation to review the progress of the tenure track candidate after three years, according to the same criteria used in the final tenure review. The final tenure review will be conducted after five and a half years. If the review is positive, the candidate will be offered a tenured position as Associate Professor/Senior Researcher at Aarhus University.

Please refer to the tenure track guidelines for the tenure review criteria and for the tenure review process.

Place of employment and place of work
Place of employment is Aarhus University, and place of work is Science and Technology, Åbogade 34, 8200 Aarhus N, Denmark.

Application
Your application must contain a CV including research activities, R&D experience, a complete publication list as well as your teaching, fundraising and leadership experience. Also, a teaching plan/statement and a research plan (length of 2-3 pages each, including your planned future teaching and research directions) are required. Please provide your ResearcherID, Google Scholar profile link, and/or a unique search query in Google Scholar and/or Web of Science to retrieve your publication and citation track record. Also, please provide names of references (minimum 3) whom the search committee may contact directly. Finally, you must indicate level (assistant professor or associate professor) you are applying for as well as the main disciplines that you specialize in.

Further information
For more information, please contact Head of the BCE Section, Lars DM Ottosen (LDMO@eng.au.dk / +45 51371671) or Head of Department of Engineering, Thomas S. Toftegaard (TST@eng.au.dk / +45 21379470).
 

Application procedure
Shortlisting is used. This means that after the deadline for applications – and with the assistance from the assessment committee chairman, and the assessment committee if necessary, – the head of department selects the candidates to be evaluated. The selection is made on the basis of an assessment of who of the candidates are most relevant considering the requirements of the advertisement. All applicants will be notified within 6 weeks whether or not their applications have been sent to an expert assessment committee for evaluation. The selected applicants will be informed about the composition of the committee and will receive his/her assessment. Once the recruitment process is completed a final letter of rejection is sent to the deselected applicants, including the main considerations emphasized during the selection process.

Formalities and salary range
Science and Technology refers to the Ministerial Order on the Appointment of Academic Staff at Danish Universities under the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation.

The application must be in English and include a curriculum vitae, degree certificate, a complete list of publications, a statement of future research plans and information about research activities, teaching portfolio and verified information on previous teaching experience (if any). Guidelines for applicants can be found here.

Appointment shall be in accordance with the collective labour agreement between the Danish Ministry of Finance and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations. Further information on qualification requirements and job content may be found in the Memorandum on Job Structure for Academic Staff at Danish Universities.

Salary depends on seniority as agreed between the Danish Ministry of Finance and the Confederation of Professional Associations.

Research activities will be evaluated in relation to actual research time. Thus, we encourage applicants to specify periods of leave without research activities, in order to be able to subtract these periods from the span of the scientific career during the evaluation of scientific productivity.

All interested candidates are encouraged to apply, regardless of their personal background.

Aarhus University offers a broad variety of services for international researchers and accompanying families, including relocation service and career counselling to expat partners. Read more here.

Please find more information about entering and working in Denmark here.
 
Aarhus University
Aarhus University is an academically diverse and research-intensive university with a strong commitment to high-quality research and education and the development of society nationally and globally. The university offers an inspiring research and teaching environment to its 39,000 students (FTEs) and 8,000 employees, and has an annual revenues of EUR 884 million. Learn more at www.au.dk/en      

Application Deadline:
05 April 2019

Academic contact person:
Lars Ditlev Mørck Ottosen
Sektionsleder

Vacant positions:
2

Hours per week:
37
     

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