DTU Tenure Track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor in Cyber-Physical Systems

At the Section for Embedded Systems Engineering (ESE) at DTU Compute we have a vacant position as Tenure Track Assistant / Associate Professors in Cyber-Physical Systems with an emphasis on emerging technologies in the interdisciplinary field between Computer Science and Bio-engineering. You could be our new colleague if you are a talented researcher with a passion for Cyber-Physical Systems and its relation to IoT. As a colleague in the ESE-Section you will be part of a dedicated team which is internationally rooted.

The position is part of the department’s capacity building related to DIREC, the National Digital Research Centre. The university is located in the greater Copenhagen area, which is acknowledged for its excellent standards of living, childcare and welfare system.

The assistant professor position is part of DTU’s Tenure Track program. We offer a rewarding and challenging job in an international environment. We strive for academic excellence in an environment characterized by collegial respect and academic freedom tempered by responsibility. We develop talent by offering a career mentor, state-of-the-art research infrastructure, and postgraduate teacher training. DTU’s Tenure Track is an appointment of at most six years, during which you will receive career support in the form of professional and personal guidance. At the end of the tenure track appointment you will be evaluated by an external assessment committee, who will assess your appointment to a permanent Associate Professorship. Read more about the DTU Tenure Track program at DTU at this homepage.

Responsibilities and qualifications
Your focus will be to strengthen our research and education within embedded computer systems, covering both hardware architectures and the embedded software stack. You are eager to conduct research in the intersection of computer systems and bioengineering, with an open and holistic mindset. Your profile will help us strengthen our capabilities in teaching, research, and innovation within the areas of Cyber-Physical Systems in the IoT era, where the current trend is to extend migrate more of the data processing from the cloud to the edge and sensor nodes, in order to obtain sustainable and secure real-time analytics. You will get an active role in forming a department-wide strategy Cyber-Physical Systems, including the development of a lab for prototyping of Cyber-Physical Systems related to teaching.

You must be responsible for the teaching of courses. You will be expected to learn Danish and be able to teach in Danish after 3 years. DTU can provide Danish language courses.

As formal qualification you must hold a PhD degree (or equivalent). If you are applying for the associate professor position you should also have academic qualifications equivalent to those obtained by holding an assistant professorship and documented didactic/pedagogic training.

You will be assessed against the responsibilities and qualifications stated above and the following general criteria:

• Experience and quality of teaching
• Research experience
• Research vision and potential
• International impact and experience
• Societal impact
• Innovativeness, including commercialization and collaboration with industry
• Leadership, collaboration, and interdisciplinary skills
• Communication skills

Salary and terms of employment
The appointment will be based on the collective agreement with the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations. The salary for the position will be determined by the applicants qualifications and in agreement with the relevant union. Further information on qualification requirements and job content may be found in the Ministerial Order on Job Structure for Academic Staff at Universities. 

Further information
Further information may be obtained from Deputy Head of Department, Head of Section Professor Jan Madsen, email: jama@dtu.dk or tel.: +45 4525 3751. 

You can read more about DTU Compute on www.compute.dtu.dk. 

If you are applying from abroad, you may find useful information on working in Denmark and at DTU at DTU – Moving to Denmark. 

Application procedure
Please submit your online application no later than 15 May 2021 (Danish time). Applications must be submitted as one PDF file containing all materials to be given consideration. To apply, please open the link "Ansøg", fill out the online application form, and attach all your materials in English in one PDF file. The file must include:

Application (cover letter)
Vision for teaching and research
CV including employment history, list of publications (applicants applying for the position as associate professor should indicate scientific highlights), H-index and ORCID (see http://orcid.org/)
Teaching portfolio including documentation of teaching experience
Academic Diplomas (MSc/PhD)
You can learn more about the recruitment process here. 

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