161749 Clinical Professor of Surgery with special focus on endoscopic diagnostics and treatment of gastrointestinal disorders (Fixed-Term, 5 Years)

Clinical Professor of Surgery
with special focus on endoscopic diagnostics and treatment of gastrointestinal disorders
(Fixed-Term, 5 Years)
Department of Clinical Medicine

Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
 University of Copenhagen

The University seeks to appoint a clinical professor of Surgery with special focus on endoscopic diagnostics and treatment of gastrointestinal disorders to commence as soon as possible. The externally funded professorship is combined with a consultancy at the Gastrounit Copenhagen University Hospital – Amager and Hvidovre, Hvidovre.

It is a requirement for appointment that the applicant is accepted for both the professorship and the consultancy. In order to be considered for the position, the applicant must send two applications: one to the Faculty (the professorship) and one to the hospital (the consultancy) cf. the simultaneously advertised position of the consultancy. This also applies to applicants who are already employed as consultants at the Hospital. The advertisement for the consultancy is available at: https://www.sundhedsjobs.dk/jobopslag/463334/consultancy-in-surgery-combined-with-a-clinical-professorship-in-surgery-with-special-focus-on-endoscopic-diagnostics-and-treatment-of-gastrointestinal-disorders.

Both the professorship and the consultancy will be financed by Copenhagen University Hospital – Amager and Hvidovre, Hvidovre.

Find information on the department at: https://ikm.ku.dk.

Job description
In the consideration of applications for the professorship, the main emphasis will be on the applicant's ability to document a high level of original scientific work at an international level within the area of surgery.

The professor’s responsibilities will primarily consist of:

• Research, including publication/academic dissemination
  Ensure an evidence-based and safe transition from open abdominal surgery to invasive endoscopy. The research program will focus on ways to optimize current operative modalities in terms of clinical efficacy and cost-effectivenes and innovate surgical clinical trajectories.
• Research-based teaching, including associated examination
  The applicant will undertake pre- and postgraduate teaching within these disciplines and in surgery and contribute to continuous development of these areas. Additionally, to implement e-learning. 
• Research leadership, including guidance and supervision of bachelor and master students as well as PhD students
  The applicant must be adequately educated and have experience with leadership in a research group. The applicant will be research responsible of the largest surgical department in Denmark with a high volume of emergency patients and subspecialized groups in tertiary care functions with large potential of innovating surgical clinical trajectories through research.
• Obligation to share knowledge with the rest of society, including participation in public debate
• Academic assessments

Required qualifications
Six overall criteria apply for 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. Find information about each criterion here: https://employment.ku.dk/faculty/criteria-for-recognising-merit.

Furthermore, each applicant must be able to:

• Document a high degree of original academic production at an international level, including considerable contributions to the development of the academic discipline
• Manage research and other management functions, e.g. engage in the university’s external academic activities, as well as knowledge and technology transfer
• Provide research-based teaching

The professor is also required to possess good interpersonal and communicative skills.

Terms of employment
The position is a fixed-term position limited to a period of 5 years. Extension is possible if the employed candidate performs well in the position.

For the professorship the appointee will receive a pensionable annual salary of 212,087.17 DKK (1 April 2024 level).

The position is covered by the Job Structure for Academic Staff at Universities 2020.

Questions
For further information please contact Head of Department Jesper Hastrup Svendsen, [email protected], http://www.sund.ku.dk.

Foreign applicants may find this link useful: http://www.ism.ku.dk (International Staff Mobility).

Application
The application must be submitted in English and must include the following documents:

• Application, including motivations for applying for this position (Maximum 2 pages)
• Curriculum vitae, including information about external funding
• Diplomas (Master’s and PhD and other relevant certificates)
• Uploads of maximum 10 publications to be considered in the assessment
• Self-declaration form (Ansættelser – Københavns Universitet (ku.dk) under ”Nyttige links”) A completed self-declaration form is mandatory. Upload the completed form in the system as ‘Other relevant material’
• Teaching portfolio (Guidelines: https://employment.ku.dk/faculty/recruitment-process/job-application-portfolio / Template for inspiration: Ansættelser – Københavns Universitet (ku.dk) under ”Nyttige links”
• Research plan (3‐5 pages)
• Teaching plan
• A complete list of publications

Application procedure
After the expiry of the deadline for applications, the authorized recruitment manager selects applicants for assessment on the advice of the Appointments Committee. All applicants are then immediately notified whether their application has been passed for assessment. The Dean then appoints an expert assessment committee in order to make an assessment of the selected applicants for the specific post. Selected applicants are notified of the composition of the committee and each applicant has the opportunity to comment on the part of the assessment that relates to the applicant him/herself. You can read about the recruitment process at https://jobportal.ku.dk/.

Please note that the applicant will be contacted if the assessment committee requires further documentation.

The applicant will be assessed according to the Ministerial Order no. 242 of 13 March 2012 on the Appointment of Academic Staff at Universities.

The University of Copenhagen encourages all interested applicants to apply for this position.

Please submit the application with the required attachments. Only online applications will be accepted. The closing date for applications is 23.59 p.m. CET, Sunday, 23 June 2024.

Interviews for this position are likely to be held on 7 November 2024.