DTU Tenure Track Assistant Professor/Associate Professor in Industrial Automation, Robotics and Mechatronics

DTU Tenure Track Assistant Professor/Associate Professor in Industrial Automation, Robotics and Mechatronics

Do you have academic or industry experience with Robotics, Industrial Automation and Mechatronics and talent for collaborating with industry, researchers and students?

DTU Engineering Technology invites applicants for a position as DTU Tenure Track assistant professor/associate professor in robot technology, industrial automation and development of related areas. Your background can be academic or from industry.

You will join the research group “Mechanical Engineering”, which currently consists of nine colleagues with a mix of research and industry experience in control engineering, product development, mechanics, materials and thermodynamic. Your contribution will be within control engineering with an emphasis on research, technology implementation and teaching in one or more of the following areas:

• Autonomous systems
• Robotics
• Industrial Automation
• Mechatronic development
• Control Engineering

In this position, you will have the opportunity to develop your professional skills within the above areas, as well as other relevant areas.

Responsibilities and qualifications

Your overall focus will be contributing to DTU’s strategic aim towards being Europe’s best engineering education. We provide courses and instruction that feed into a number of DTU’s Bachelor in Engineering Programmes (BEng) as well as a range of continuing education formats, including Diploma Programmes. Our approach is research and development-based with a strong focus on practice, hands-on experience, and problem solving. This approach drives our research as well as our teaching, while we aim to qualify our graduates to detect, analyse and find solutions to the real-world problems of the digital transformation and a sustainable future. The pedagogical concept and the BEng programmes are based upon the internationally recognized concept CDIO. 

Your primary tasks will be:

• Teaching courses and supervising student projects
• Contributing to the development of the research group including funding, research, innovation, publications and PhD supervision
• Integrate University-industry collaboration in your teaching and research.

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 qualifications you must hold an MSc or 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

Further information

Further information may be obtained from associate professor, group leader, Mads Peter Schreiber [email protected] or Head of Department Malene Kirstine Holst, [email protected]

You can read more about DTU Engineering Technology at www.engtech.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 6 November 2022 (Danish Time).