Assistant Professor exploring technological change in its broader context

At Chalmers University of Technology, our inspiring, world class research environments tackle pressing scientific and societal challenges. Through our strong collaborative tradition of combining expertise from different disciplines, we are especially equipped to contribute to complex needs of our society and a sustainable future.

We seek creative individuals to join Chalmers as tenure-track Assistant Professors and accelerate our quest for new knowledge and sustainability. You are invited to apply and propose your research ideas and to describe your plans to reach your goals and ambitions to make a difference. A four-year tenure track position is provided with a generous start-up package, relocation support, mentoring, and leadership training to further your development as an outstanding research leader. You will be employed by the department of your choice, while also finding collaborations and growing networks across departments and in the wider society.

We look for candidates that complement rather than duplicate our existing competences and that have an ambition to interact with our existing research groups. We value scientific depth and inventiveness, a collaborative spirit, societal engagement as well as leadership and entrepreneurial skills. Our aim is to actively improve the gender balance in our faculty. We therefore strongly encourage female applicants.

Read more about these broad thematic recruitments here .

Technology in Society
Meeting society’s grand challenges requires new and existing sustainable technologies and technology-based solutions to be developed and diffused in society while also keeping their potential short- and long-term consequences in mind. The challenges call for a diversity of research – with broad takes and inter/trans-disciplinary approaches – where perspectives from the social sciences and humanities are key to understanding and realizing the necessary societal and technological transformations. With this call, Chalmers therefore aims at further strengthening its competence on societal, industrial, and organizational conditions, challenges, and consequences related to technology development, commercialization, adoption, implementation, and use. This includes research on how economic, political, and social contexts and processes, as well as cognitive and cultural frames, shape technology and its development and use. It also includes research on the economic, environmental, social, cultural, ethical, and legal implications of technology. Applicants are not expected to cover all aspects of this broad area but should have strong expertise within (at least) one more specialized field of research that relates clearly to some of these aspects and/or the interplay between them.

Chalmers has a long tradition of outstanding research in related areas, including (but not restricted to) innovation, entrepreneurship, organizational behavior and leadership, history of technology, science and technology studies, environmental humanities, sustainability transitions, planning and design methods, inclusive design, communication and learning, and stakeholder participation. Research is conducted in cross-disciplinary teams in many departments across Chalmers and in close collaboration with local, national, and international external parties, such as companies, public organizations and government agencies, non-governmental organizations, and civil society organizations. There are a number of established arenas for collaboration and individual researchers and research groups also participate in various competence centres, large national and international research projects, and other forms of platforms where knowledge is co-created with different types of stakeholders. We seek candidates with an ambition and potential to collaborate closely with our existing research groups and established and new external partners to both advance current areas of research and, not least, develop new directions of inter- and transdisciplinary research for the future.

Chalmers is also known for being a forerunner in education in this area, including Chalmers School of Entrepreneurship , Challenge Lab , the MSc program Architecture and planning beyond sustainability , interdisciplinary Tracks courses, and mandatory course requirements for engineering program students in the educational areas of “Environment and Sustainable Development” and “Humans, Technology, Society”. There are also various programs and initiatives targeting life-long learning in private and public organizations. Applicants are expected to have some pedagogical experience and show an interest in education at different levels.

Major responsibilities
As an Assistant Professor, you will conduct and lead research, and develop into an independent principal investigator, in line with the intentions described in your application. Together with the rest of the faculty, you will contribute to teaching and developing our educational curriculum, to the academic culture, and participate in departmental and university-wide activities. You are expected to supervise undergraduate and graduate students, and to apply for external funding to further accelerate your research. As an employee at Chalmers, you are encouraged to actively contribute to our work within the field of equality and diversity, for example through the GENIE Initiative on gender equality for excellence.

Position summary
The appointment as Assistant Professor is a four-year entry-level faculty position with tenure track, whereby you will acquire both pedagogical and research qualifications. The aim is to achieve the level of Associate Professor within four years and if successful you will be offered a permanent faculty position at Chalmers.

Read more about working at Chalmers and our benefits for employees here .

Qualifications for the position
You have:
• A doctoral degree in a relevant field, not older than 7 years prior to the application deadline of 31 January 2022.**
• Performed research that has resulted in publications and presentations in relevant and respected venues for your field.
• Shown your ability to create national and international networks within your subject area, for example through co-authored publications.
• Experience of applying for research funding.
• Post-doctoral experience or similar, preferably performed in an environment other than where you did your doctoral studies.
• Demonstrated your pedagogical interest and potential
• Worked towards creating a good internal working environment at your workplace.
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal, in English.

We value highly that you have shared your research with society.

**The date shown in your doctoral degree certificate is the date we use, as this is the date you have met all requirements for the doctoral degree. Exceptions will be made for longer periods of verified leave, such as parental leave, military leave and sick leave.

Application procedure
The application should be marked with Ref 20210536  and written in English. The application should be sent electronically and be attached as pdf-files, as below:

CV: (Please name the document as: CV, Family name, Ref. number)
• Curriculum Vitae, including a complete list of publications
(please highlight your five most relevant publications and describe your contribution to each)
• Names and full contact information of two references that we can contact.

Research statement: (Maximum 3 pages. Please name the document as: Research Statement, Family name, Ref. number)
• Describe your previous research, your future research plans and your collaborative network.

Personal letter: (Maximum 2 pages. Please name the document as: Personal letter, Family name, Ref. number)
• Introduce yourself and describe why you want to join Chalmers
• Describe how you complement our existing competences and how you could create synergies between our existing research groups.

Required documents: (Please name the document with a relevant name, Family name, Ref. number)
• Certificate or Diploma verifying your doctoral degree
• Your five most relevant publications (highlighted in the CV). Your other research publications can be accessed via your ORCID, Scopus ID or ResearchID.
• Verification of leave, if relevant.

Additional documents which support your application, such as awards, popular science articles and other merits, may also be submitted as PDF files.

Please use the button at the foot of the page to access the application form. The files may be compressed (zipped).

Application deadline: 31 January, 2022

For questions, please contact:
Professor Anna Bergek, [email protected]

*** Chalmers declines to consider all offers of further announcement publishing or other types of support for the recruiting process in connection with this position. ***

Chalmers University of Technology is a full-scale technological university with scientific depth and interdisciplinary breadth. We acknowledge curiosity-driven fundamental research as an important foundation, and innovation and entrepreneurship as central driving forces, to solve concrete societal challenges. Our 2,300 researchers, instructors and doctoral students conduct research into everything from the smallest building blocks of matter, to systems biology and food products, to climate issues, traffic safety and distant galaxies. Research is carried out in close collaboration with industry and the public sector. Chalmers also has a strong international air created by international faculty and students, and exchange and collaboration with leading universities and companies worldwide. New knowledge and improved technology have characterised Chalmers since its foundation in 1829, in accordance with the will of our founder William Chalmers and his motto: Avancez!

About the Areas of Advance and Excellence Initiatives (our cross disciplinary platforms)
Through Chalmers’ Areas of Advance and Excellence Initiatives, we collect skills from across our departments so that we can take on complex, global challenges together with other actors in society.      

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