Professor in Civil Engineering - Re-use in Construction

We are offering full-time employment in an intellectually challenging environment. KU Leuven is a research-intensive, internationally oriented university that performs fundamental and applied scientific research. It is highly inter- and multi-disciplinarily focused and strives for international excellence. In this regard, it actively cooperates with research partners in Belgium and abroad. It provides its students with an academic education that is based on high-quality scientific research. You will work at the KU Leuven Bruges Campus, in a historic city with a seaport and modern industrial activities. Bruges has a 70 minute railway connection to Brussels, capital of the European Union, and about three hours to Paris, London and Amsterdam.Depending on your record and qualifications, you will be appointed to or tenured in one of the grades of the senior academic staff: assistant professor, associate professor, professor or full professor. In principle, junior researchers are appointed as assistant professor on the tenure track for a period of 5 years; after this period and a positive evaluation, they are permanently appointed (or tenured) as an associate professor.KU Leuven is well set to welcome foreign professors and their family and provides practical support with regard to immigration & administration, housing, childcare, learning Dutch, partner career coaching, … To facilitate scientific onboarding and accelerate research in the first phase a starting grant of 100.000 euro is offered to new professors without substantial other funding, appointed for at least 50%.

For more information on the contents of the job, please contact:* Prof. Dr. Jaak Monbaliu, chair of the Civil Engineering Department  (email: [email protected] , tel.: +32 16 32 16 61) or* Prof. Dr. Pieter Rauwoens, campus chair of KU Leuven Bruges Campus (email: [email protected] , tel.: +32 50 66 48 33)
Add to your application following documents in English (more information is available on the KU Leuven job site):
- Your biosketch in which you indicate your added value as an academic for research, education and service to society of your past career and of your future activities (maximum 2 pages);- A file on your five most important publications or realizations;- An extensive cv including a full publication list and if applicable a portfolio of your civil engineering projects;- Your research plan with focus on the development of your research line and research team in relation with the colleague-researchers of the entity of employment (maximum 4 pages);- Your vision on academic education and its organization (maximum 2 pages);- Your contribution to society by outreach and public communication on science and technology, internal representation in boa... For more information see https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/60043556