Two Associate Professor positions within Life Cycle Engineering and Energy System Analysis

The Center of Life Cycle Engineering in the Department of Green Technology at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) invites applications for two Associate Professor positions: (1) One position within Life Cycle Engineering and (2) One position within Energy System Analysis. The targeted starting time of the positions is 01 July 2025, or as soon as possible thereafter. The application deadline: 30 April 2025 at 11.59 PM/23.59 (CET/CEST).
The Center of Life Cycle Engineering in the Department of Green Technology at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) invites applications for two Associate Professor positions: (1) One position within Life Cycle Engineering and (2) One position within Energy System Analysis.

The targeted starting time of the positions is 01 July 2025, or as soon as possible thereafter.

The application deadline: 30 April 2025 at 11.59 PM/23.59 (CET/CEST).
Job Description
The candidates will be responsible for building up the area of quantitative sustainability assessment and energy system analysis.

Successful candidates will drive internationally recognized research, work closely with industry, and are expected to attract competitive external research funding. The candidates will play a key role in providing outstanding education, supervising bachelor's and master’s students, and developing junior research staff.

We offer:

• A dynamic and international workplace with excellent facilities and strong collaborations with research organizations and industry.
• Continued education of members of staff
• Flexibility in planning working hours
• An attractive working environment and work-life balance prioritization

Qualifications:
We seek ambitious and collaborative candidates with qualifications at the level of associate professor and an excellent track record of achievements. Applicants for both position areas must have:

• The candidates must have a PhD degree and have a least 3 years’ experience as assistant professor.
• The candidates should be able to teach courses related to quantitative sustainability, life cycle assessment, techno-economic assessment, renewable hydrocarbons, and energy system design and analysis.
• The candidates should have established research portfolio, including Web of Sciences publications in the field of sustainability, energy systems and green hydrogen and power-to-x technologies.
• The candidates need to show substantial teaching and supervision experience in several subjects.
• The candidates preferably should be able to document experience with obtaining external research funding.
• Formal training in pedagogics at university level and documented pedagogical skills.
• Experience in research communication, outreach, and dissemination to a wider public
• The ability to strengthen national and international collaboration within the research area.
• Strong interpersonal skills.

The qualifications for applying for the position within Life Cycle Engineering also requires:

• Dynamic system analysis and Life cycle assessment
• Future scenario modeling
• Early environmental sustainability guidance for low TRL technologies
• Socio-economic sustainability assessment
• Tools and methods development for dynamic sustainability assessment
• Framework development for Safe and Sustainable by Desing (SSbD) principles with Agrochemical industry and biorefineries
• Applying SSbD aligned sustainability assessment
• Developing advanced tools facilitating SSbD aligned sustainability assessment

The qualifications for applying for the position within Energy System Analysis also requires:

• Strong background in green hydrogen and downstream power-to-x processes
• Energy system design and analysis both at component and system levels
• Renewable-driven carbon neutral energy systems
• System integration and sector coupling
• Role of power-to-x technologies in flexibility of energy systems
• Techno-economic assessment of energy systems
• Strategies for decarbonizing different sectors of energy systems
• Conventional and advanced exergy analysis of energy systems at component level

About the department and center:
The Department for Green Technology (IGT) at the Faculty of Engineering, SDU, is a highly interdisciplinary department equipped with state-of-the-art laboratories.

You will be part of a team of researchers working at the department supporting excellence within research and teaching.

We warmly invite all qualified candidates to apply. We are dedicated to embracing human diversity, believing that the key to achieving exceptional and outstanding research lies in fostering an inclusive community that welcomes individuals from all backgrounds.

Odense, where IGT is located, is an international and family-friendly city with a rich cultural life, situated on the fjord. It is about an hour from Copenhagen and has a direct train connection to Copenhagen’s international airport.

SDU’s Odense Campus is nestled in the beautiful Danish countryside, surrounded by fields and forests, with remarkable wildlife right at its doorstep.

The Center of SDU Life Cycle Engineering (SDU LCE) conducts unique research in system analysis and systems integration. The research at SDU LCE focuses on environmental system analysis, including material flow Analysis, life cycle assessment, energy system design and analysis, industrial ecology, green hydrogen and power-to-x technologies and techno- and socio-economic assessment). By applying and further developing these methods, SDU LCE aims to understand and characterize the sustainability of socio-economic development, including societal infrastructure development, urban development, and the technological development of industrial and agricultural products and systems. SDU LCE actively participates in international research communities related to Quantitative Sustainability Assessment and Industrial Ecology and contributes to international sustainable development agendas such as bio-economy and circular economy.

SDU LCE is primarily externally funded and engaged in numerous strategic research projects supported by various sources, including EU projects, national strategic research and innovation projects, privately funded projects, and NGO projects.

The education and teaching portfolio at SDU LCE covers a broad range of technology courses related to the centers research areas. SDU LCE is responsible for SDU's Master's program in Environmental Engineering and is involved in both the Bachelor's and Master's programs in Energy Technology, Integrated Design & Sustainable Product Development and Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology.

Contact information:
For further information regarding the position, please contact the Head of SDU LCE, Professor Morten Birkved, at tel.: +45 6550 7636 or email: morb@igt.sdu.dk.

If you experience technical problems, please contact hcm-support@sdu.dk.

Application procedure
Applicants are advised to read the SDU information on how to apply.

Assessment of the candidates is based on the application material, and an application must include:

• An application letter including a statement of motivation.
• Detailed Curriculum Vitae, preferably including ORCID ID and Scopus profile link.
• Evidence of experience in teaching (Teaching portfolio).
• Evidence of research experience and a research plan for the next 5 years.
• Complete list of publications.
• Up to 8 of the most relevant publications (Please attach one pdf-file for each)
• Certificates/Diplomas (any relevant Master's degree, PhD degree, or other relevant certificates) – Danish or English transcripts.
• Documentation of other qualifications with relevance to the position

UPLOAD GUIDE:

Motivated application shall be uploaded as ‘Cover letter’ (max. 5 MB), Curriculum Vitae shall be uploaded as ‘Resume’ (max 5 MB). All other documents shall be uploaded as ‘Miscellaneous documents’ (max 10 files of max 50 MB per file).

All documents must be in English and PDF format. CPR number (civil registration no.) must be crossed out. All PDF-files must be unlocked and allow binding and may not be password protected.

The application deadline is 30. April 2025 at 11.59 PM/23.59 (CET/CEST)

Assessment and selection process
Applications will be assessed by an assessment committee. Shortlisting may be applied, and only shortlisted candidates will receive a written assessment. Read about shortlisting at SDU. Interviews and tests may be part of the overall evaluation.

Read about the Assessment and selection process.

Conditions of employment
Appointment as associate professor is permanent, and the preferred start date is from 1. July 2025.

Employment as an associate professor requires academic qualifications at PhD level as well as scientific and teaching qualifications at a level achievable based on satisfactory completion of a period of employment as assistant professor/researcher but may be achievable by other means.

Employment will be in accordance with the collective agreement between the Ministry of Finance and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations for academics in the state with the associated circular on the protocol for the job structure for academic staff at Danish universities and the provisions for associate professor as described herein. Further information on salary and taxation.

The person employed in the position may, based on a specific individual managerial evaluation, be exempted from time registration, also known as a “self-organiser”.

The University of Southern Denmark wishes our staff to reflect the surrounding community and therefore encourages everyone, regardless of personal background, to apply for the position. SDU conducts research in critical technologies, which, due to the risk of unwanted knowledge transfer, are subject to a number of security measures. Therefore, based on information from open sources, background checks may be conducted on candidates for the position.

Further information for international applicants about entering and working in Denmark. You may also visit WorkinDenmark for additional information.

Further information about The Faculty of Engineering.

Placering: Odense, Denmark