Assistant professor in organic electronics

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The purpose of the employment as an assistant professor is to give the teacher the opportunity to develop independence as a researcher and to obtain both the scientific and teaching qualifications required for employment as senior lecturer. 

The research and education in organic electronics at the Department of Science and Technolog y (ITN) and the Laboratory of Organic Electronics (LOE) focus on the study of electronically and ionically conductive organic materials in a range of areas including, but not limited to, energy conversion, printed electronics, polymer electronics, photonics, and bioelectronics. The specific focus of this position is as an assistant professor in polymer electronics.

Polymer electronics is a specialized field that focuses on creating electronic devices using electrically semiconductive organic polymers. These polymers have several unique properties that make them suitable for use in advanced electronic systems. They are solution-processable, biocompatible, biodegradable, soft, and malleable. Additionally, they can be easily functionalized to provide specialized excitation, sensing, and activation capabilities. Among the different solution-processable conjugated polymers, conjugated covalent organic frameworks (COFs) have the potential to revolutionize electronics and electrocatalysis by improving intercalation and transport of ions.

The research direction of the position involves developing conjugated COFs, investigating their charge transfer abilities, and exploring their application in electrochemical devices (e.g., transistors and energy storage devices).

The duties of the sought-after assistant professor include supervision of doctoral students and postdocs in their research activities and project management (coordination of national and international research activities with members from several of LOE's subgroups).

You are active in the research community, participate in the division's activities such as seminars and workshops, participate in research projects, communicate results through scientific publications and help attract external research funding.

You contribute actively to the university's development work. Collaboration is an integral part of the university’s research and education mission.          Collaboration in research takes the form of disseminating, making available and utilising research.

Your work includes monitoring developments nationally and internationally within your field of study and other societal developments that are important to your work.

You are flexible and have the ability to move between different types of pedagogical and scientific contexts. You share knowledge and contribute to the working group’s professional development, collegial ways of working and social community. The fact that you are present and active is something we see as self-evident in order to ensure that you are able to perform your duties in an optimum way and enjoy your working community.

We are looking for candidates who have a doctoral degree or equivalent scientific competence. We are primarily looking for candidates who have obtained their doctoral degree in the past five years.  

For this employment special emphasis will be placed on academic expertise. 

In terms of academic expertise, the following will be assessed:

• Requirement for the position includes demonstrated ability to conduct innovative research resulting in publications in well-renowned international journals.
• Requirement for the position includes relevant scope and high quality of scientific output.
• Requirement for the position includes demonstrated ability to obtain research grants.
• Requirement for the position includes demonstrated ability to lead research projects.
• Requirement for the position includes demonstrated ability to collaborate within research.
• Requirement for the position includes demonstrated experience in the defined research area, including relevant experimental techniques.
• Particularly advantageous is experience working with conjugated COFs.

In terms of pedagogical expertise, the following will be assessed:

• Requirement for the position includes demonstrated ability to supervise master's theses.
• Requirement for the position includes demonstrated ability to (co)supervise doctoral candidate(s).
• Requirement for the position includes demonstrated ability to communicate clearly in English, both verbally and in writing.

Other skills that will be assessed for this position include the ability to collaborate within a larger research environment as well as with external non-academic stakeholders.

As teaching and research primarily occur in English, you should be able to demonstrate the ability to teach and conduct research in English.

The length of employment for this position is 4 years, full time.Starting date by agreement.

An assistant professor may be employed until further notice, for a minimum period of four years and a maximum period of six years, as determined by the institution of higher education before the employment begins. The employment may be renewed, by a maximum period of two years, if, as a consequence of sick absence, parental leave, or other special circumstances of the assistant professor, additional time is necessary in order to achieve the purpose of the employment.

An assistant professor shall, after application, be promoted to associate professor if he/she is qualified for employment as associate professor and has been assessed following a test to be suitable for such employment according to the grounds for assessment that the University has determined. 

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Apply for the position by clicking the “Apply” button below. Your application must be received no later than April 10, 2024.
Applications and documents received after the date above will not be considered.
Please attach your selected research publications electronically, in pdf or word format, in the application template. Research publications, e.g. monographs, which cannot be sent electronically should be sent in three sets by mail to the University Registrar at Linköping University, University Registrar, S-581 83 Linköping, Sweden. The publications must be received by Linköping University no later than the deadline for application. 

Please note that printed publications will not be returned. They will be archived at Linköping University.
In the event of a discrepancy between the English translation of the job announcement and the Swedish original, the Swedish version shall take precedent. 

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