Tenure Track Position for Assistant Professor in Spectroscopy and Imaging

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Department of Green Technology (IGT) invites applications for one position as tenure-track assistant professor in spectroscopy and imaging for a 6-year period. The starting date is February 1st 2023 or as soon as possible thereafter. The position is in the Biotechnology Section (BIOTECH).

The successful candidate will be expected to engage in research in fields falling within or in strong synergy with one or more of the following research areas at BIOTECH related to spectroscopy and imaging:

  • Medical biotechnology, including tissue scaffold engineering and characterization.
  • Super resolution microscopy and imaging.
  • Spectroscopy and imaging techniques such as Raman, FTIR, NIR, UV/Vis and image correlation spectroscopy is utilized in current research.
  • Analytical chemistry.
  • Biorefinery and biofuels.

The successful candidate is expected to initiate and obtain funding for internationally competitive research activities. Commitment to excellence in teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate level is also expected. The position thus holds a high level of responsibility, but also comes with influence and opportunity to develop and deliver research and education to the highest international level.

What we offer

  • A 6 year tenure-track position as assistant professor
  • Responsibility: The candidate will be responsible for teaching courses, applying for research grants and participating in the IGT department structure.
  • We offer a research environment at a high international level.

What we expect:

Qualifications
The candidate must have a PhD or equivalent at the time of employment.

The candidate is expected to have experience within several of the following area:

  • Research and/or education in spectroscopy, imaging, biophysics and/or related areas.
  • Analysis of multivariate data using appropriate techniques.
  • Imaging of mammalian- or plant cells.
  • Experience as experimental leader at international user facilities is an advantage but not required.
  • Experience in electron microscopy is an advantage but not required.
  • Attracting competitive funding.
  • Collaborating with companies/industry or other international research groups.

A highly interdisciplinary mind-set and experience in innovation and bringing research results to the market will be highly valued.

Workplace description
BIOTECH is part of the Department for Green Technology (IGT), at the Faculty of Engineering at SDU.

IGT is a highly interdisciplinary department with state of the are laboratories.

Contact information
For further information regarding the position please contact Head of Department, Jens Ejbye Schmidt, phone: +45 6550 7361, e-mail:[email protected] or head of Section Eva Arnspang Christensen, phone +45 6550 4682, email: [email protected]

Conditions of employment
Employment as a tenure track assistant professor is a 6-year temporary position.

The successful applicant will be employed in accordance with the agreement between the Ministry of Finance and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations. Please check links for more information on salary and taxation.

The Danish tenure track employment
The Danish tenure-track employment is a focused assistant professorship with a guaranteed assessment for a position as an associate professor, not limited in time, within the tenure-track assistant professor’s field of study.

The tenure-track assistant professor will be assigned a mentor upon employment. The head of department will further, host annual performance- and development reviews, to ensure the progress of the assistant professor’s development towards meeting the qualifications of an associate professorship. A formal midterm evaluation will be conducted by a committee, consisting of the head of the department and two external researchers with relevant qualifications, with the purpose of ensuring the focus of the assistant professor’s activities, as well as to create the basis for the planning of the remaining period.

The transition from assistant professor to associate professor
Within the 6th year of employment, the tenure-track assistant professor is expected to transition into a position as an associate professor position, based on a positive assessment conducted by a formally approved assessment committee, consisting of a chairman appointed by the University of Southern Denmark, as well two external committee members approved by the dean, the academic council and the tenure-track committee of the university.

Successful applicants to tenure-track assistant professor positions must be scholars with an internationally competitive research profile, whose potential is at the forefront of their discipline. The applicants for tenure-track assistant professorships, are assessed based on the criteria of the applicant’s potential to reach an international level of scholarly excellence during the tenure-track period. The candidate will only be promoted to associate professor when the assessment committee confirms that the candidate has scholarly merits at a level of international excellence beyond what can normally be expected for associate professors, with reference to the qualification policy of the research group in which the position is announced.

Indicators of relevant scholarly merits could be documented through scholarly output independent of the PhD supervisor, ground-breaking publications, achievement of excellence grants, and international research network.

The candidate must at the point of transition from assistant professor to associate professor:

  • Demonstrate successful attraction of significant grants (for assistant professors)
  • Demonstrate good production of last author ships in international open source peer-review journals
  • Demonstrate leadership of a research group, could consist of e.g. Ph.D. students and masters students
  • Demonstrate national and international research collaboration
  • Demonstrate excellent teaching skills

The tenure-track candidate will be employed as assistant professor. During the period as assistant professor it is expected that the candidate will qualify as associate professor. Within 6 years of employment the candidate will be employed as associate professor if an assessment committee evaluates the candidate qualified as associate professor.

The assessment process
Read about the Assessment and selection process. Shortlisting may be used.

Application
The faculty expects applicants to read How to apply before applying.

The application must be in English and must include:

  • Motivated application
  • Detailed Curriculum Vitae
  • Certificates/Diplomas (MSc and PhD)
  • Information on previous teaching and supervision experience. Please attach as Teaching Portfolio
  • List of publications indicating the publications attached
  • Examples of the most relevant publications. Please attach one pdf-file for each publication
  • Reference letters and other relevant qualifications may also be included.

The application deadline is November 27, 2022.

The University wishes our staff to reflect the diversity of society and thus welcomes applications from all qualified candidates regardless of personal background.

Further information for international applicants about entering and working in Denmark.

Further information about The Faculty of Engineering.


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Jobbet er oprettet på vores service den 27.10.2022, men kan have været deaktiveret og genaktiveret igen.

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