Assistant Professor or Associate Professor in Legal and Regulatory Aspects of Biosolutions and AMR

The Centre for Biomedical Innovation Law (CeBIL), Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), invites applications for a position as either assistant professor or associate professor in Law to be filled by April 1st, 2024, or as soon as possible thereafter. The position is limited to 4 years, but an extension of the appointment is possible based on funding and performance.

The position is part of the interdisciplinary Inter-CeBIL program funded by a 50 million DKK grant by the Novo Nordisk Foundation (NNF). It involves close collaboration with partners from the University of Cambridge, Harvard, the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), and further prominent researchers from leading universities around the globe.

Areas of Research
Inter-CeBIL is dedicated to facilitating the translation of innovative health & life science research into practical applications and innovation that creates beneficial impact in society and reaches patients. Inter-CeBIL’s research aims to contribute with problem and solution-oriented research at the highest level focusing on issues that relate to three overlapping key-areas:

1. Advanced Medical Computing: Navigate the intricate legal and ethical issues surrounding new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, swarm learning, quantum computing, and other disruptive technologies.
2. Pandemic Preparedness & Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR): Develop frameworks that both accelerate innovations in combating pandemics and antimicrobial resistance and ensure their safe, ethical application.
3. Sustainable Innovation: Focus on eco-systems, drug R&D, and regulation to foster sustainable, effective, and globally competitive health solutions, including biosolution innovations in NGTs, novel foods, & biologics.

The accepted applicant is expected to work at the intersection of study 2 and 3 with a focus on examining and tackling legal and regulatory barriers to biosolutions and AMR.

About Inter-CeBIL
The Inter-CeBIL programme unites core partners from the Universities of Copenhagen, Harvard, Cambridge and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), as well as further research fellows and affiliates from top universities around the globe. The Programme will focus on the aforementioned three key areas, complemented by studies on practical implementations and use-cases involving many public and private stakeholders from Denmark and around the globe.

The overall aim and ambition of Inter-CeBIL is to contribute to the translation of groundbreaking health and life science research into safe, effective, affordable, and accessible therapies. We also aim to help finding solutions to tackle the grand challenges of our time, such as climate change and pandemics, by analyzing the most significant legal challenges to health and life science innovation and public health from a cross-disciplinary perspective. CeBIL is international and interdisciplinary, anchored at the Faculty of Law, the Centre collaborates with key national and international experts from academia, public bodies, patient organizations and industry. Some of the most renowned international academic capacities in biomedical innovation law are involved in the Inter-CeBIL-program as either Core Partners or Collaborators.

For further details, please visit our website.

Qualification requirements for assistant professors
The position requires scientific qualifications such as a Ph.D. or equivalent within the research area.

An assistant professorship is a fixed-term academic position involving both research and teaching. The successful candidate will be obliged to complete a teacher-training course designed especially for assistant professors and will be expected to be able to take part in all the activities of the Department, including examinations and administration.

The duties of the position are evenly distributed on tasks related to teaching and tasks related to research (including relevant administration and knowledge-sharing). Documented competences in both of these main fields of activity, as well as the ability to reflect on them, will be weighted in the assessment process (see further below).

Six overall criteria apply for assistant professor appointments at the University of Copenhagen. The six criteria (research, teaching, societal impact, organisational contribution, external funding and leadership) are considered a framework for the overall assessment of candidates.

You can read more about the UCPH criteria and the criteria for recognizing merit for assistant professors.

Qualification requirements for associate professors
The applicant is expected to be able to take part in all the activities of the department, including examinations and administration, and to manage research projects, provide pedagogical supervision, support assistant professors, and participate in academic assessment panels.

The duties of the position are evenly distributed on tasks related to teaching and tasks related to research (including relevant administration and knowledge-sharing). Hence the assessment of applicants’ qualifications will assign equal weight to documented competences in the field of teaching, pedagogy and didactics as in the field of research, research collaboration and research organization. Applicants with documentation of excellent teaching skills including experience with development of teaching and with experiences and reflections on how most effectively to integrate research and teaching activities will be given priority.

Six overall criteria apply for associate professor appointments at the University of Copenhagen. The six criteria (research, teaching, societal impact, organizational contribution, external funding and leadership) are considered a framework for the overall assessment of candidates. Furthermore, each candidate must be assessed according to the specific requirements stated in the job advertisement.

You can read more about the UCPH criteria and the criteria for recognizing merit for associate professors.

Requirements for positions at both levels
Within a reasonable period (3-6 years), non-Danish-speaking appointees are expected to acquire proficiency in Danish sufficient to be able to interact with colleagues and students.

For further details about the qualification requirements for assistant and associate professorships, please read the Job Structure for Academic Staff at Universities 2019.

Application
Submit the application online in Adobe PDF or Word format.

Please note that each field in the application form must only contain a single file of max. 10Mb.

Please click on the “Apply now” icon at the bottom of the page.

Applicants should indicate if they apply at the assistant professor or the associate professor level.

Letter of motivation, appendixes and the submitted scientific publications, incl. papers, articles and books, must be written in Danish, Swedish, Norwegian or English.

The application MUST include the following 8 elements:

1. Application / letter of motivation
2. Curriculum vitae
3. Diplomas. Documentation of qualifications (degrees/diplomas, PhD diploma etc.)
4. Publications list. Complete numbered list of publications.
5. Teaching portfolio. This must include documentation for teaching qualifications, evaluations as well as a brief statement of the applicant's teaching visions within the research area. For more information regarding teaching portfolio, applicants are encouraged to read the Job application portfolio – University of Copenhagen (ku.dk)
6. Research plan. An outline of planned research activities, including publications plans and plans for applications for external funding. The plan also documents the applicant’s skills to contribute to research in one or more of the Faculty's research centers and environments, including how research can benefit the students in one or more of the Faculty's study programmes.
7. Publications. A maximum of five (5) scientific publications that the applicant wishes to have included in the assessment, of which no more than two (2) may be monographs. Applicants, who have written a PhD thesis or equivalent, must always submit the complete thesis and the written assessment of the thesis as a part of submitted publications if the thesis is written in one of the languages mentioned below. A PhD thesis written in another language may be submitted, but the Assessment Committee is not required to assess the thesis. The submitted research publications must be written in Danish, Swedish, Norwegian or English
8. Co-author declaration. If citing work where the applicant has been a co-author, a co-author declaration, which addresses the applicant's share of these works, must be submitted. Material that has not yet published can be submitted. However, please indicate if this is the case.

Appointment procedure
After the application deadline, the Head of the Department selects applicants for assessment on the advice of the Appointment Committee. All applicants are then immediately notified whether their application has been accepted for assessment. The Dean subsequently appoints an expert assessment committee tasked with carrying out an assessment of the selected applicants for the specific post. Selected applicants are notified of the composition of the committee. Applicants are ultimately offered the opportunity of commenting on the part of the assessment relating to themselves before the appointment is finalized.

Information
For further information about the positions, please contact Professor Timo Minssen, e-mail: [email protected]

Further information about the application procedure is available from HR, e-mail: [email protected]. Please refer to ID number 211-0387/23-2A #1.

Salary and conditions of employment
Terms of appointment and salary will be in accordance with an agreement between the Ministry of Finance and The Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (AC). For assistant professors the salary range starts at DKK 36,400 + a 17,1 % contribution to the pension scheme. For associate professors the salary range is DKK 42,300 + a 17,1 % contribution to the pension scheme. It is possible to negotiate salary supplements on an annual basis. A special tax scheme is offered to researchers recruited abroad, read more at this homepage: https://ism.ku.dk/salary-tax-pension/tax/

If you consider applying from abroad, you may find useful information on how it is to work in Denmark and at UCPH. Find more information here: https://www.nyidanmark.dk/en-GB and https://ism.ku.dk

The UCPH wishes to encourage everyone interested in this post to apply, regardless of personal background.

The closing date for applications is January 31st, 2024, at 23:59, CET.

Applications or supplementary material received thereafter will not be considered.

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