Associate Professor or DTU Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Transportation and Infrastructure Pla

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Posted: 11-Sep-23

Lyngby, Denmark

Type: Full Time

Categories:

Computer Software Engineering Computer Software – Analytics Computer Software – Applied Mathematics Computer Software – Management Science

Academic Designation:

Academic

Work Function:

Information Systems

Internal Number: 161438

Do you want to take part in the green transition and shape the future in transportation and infrastructure planning? Do you have a passion for innovation and engineering education? 

We invite you to join our research group “Production, Transportation and Planning”, where you will have colleagues with a mix of research and industry experience. We work with research, innovation, technology implementation, teaching, and education development. Our group is diverse in culture, nationalities, personality types and career paths. We enjoy collegial idea generation, feedback and cooperation in an informal, safe and fun working environment. 

Our research group work with production planning as well as transportation, infrastructure and urban planning. You will contribute within transportation and infrastructure planning in the following areas:

Infrastructure planning and modelling, including demand and traffic pattern analysis

Demand assessments, route and vehicle choices

Traffic impact analysis of infrastructure improvements travel times, driving costs, pollution and noise)

Geographical Information Systems for illustrating and analyzing data

Traffic flow analysis and planning for roads and urban areas 

Microsimulation using simulation software PTV VISSIM)

Responsibilities and qualifications
Your overall focus will be to strengthen our teaching and research in the field. You will get the opportunity to develop your skills, and we expect you to take lead in driving the academic agenda and impacting society and our common future. To do so, you will:.

Develop the research field by defining ideas and concepts for future projects

Write and collaborate on research proposals, incl. PhD projects

Conduct and in time lead research projects with partners across the globe

If associate professor, supervise PhDs; if assistant professor, co-supervise PhDs 

Teach and supervise in engineering education and continuing education 

You must be responsible for the teaching of courses. DTU employs two working languages: Danish and English. You are expected to be fluent in at least one of these languages, and in time are expected to master both.

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 allowance will be agreed upon with the relevant union. 

The position is full-time beginning January 1, 2024.

The assistant professor position is part of DTU’s Tenure Track program. Read more about the program and the recruitment process .

You can read more about career paths at DTU .

Further information 
Further information may be obtained from Samuel Brüning Larsen, research group leader.

You can read more about the department at

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

Application procedure
Please submit your online application no later than 10 October 2023 (23:59 Danish time).

Applications must be submitted as one PDF file containing all materials to be given consideration.