DTU Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Wireless Networks – DTU Electro

DTU Electro invites applicants for a tenure track assistant professor position in wireless networking. Your main research and teaching area will be within classical Internet and IoT, with a focus on use cases for defense, eHealth/telemedicine and autonomous transport.
At DTU Electro we are expanding our research and teaching activities within wireless networking and its interaction with the wired high-capacity core/transport network, and we are inviting applicants for a new position in this field, with a specific focus on reliability, availability, privacy and security.

Responsibilities and qualifications
We are looking for an Assistant Professor with a PhD in communication networks and some years of research experience from a postdoc position or similar. The applicant must have documented experience in network design and validation, with a focus on critical applications (both human and machine type). General knowledge of the physical layer is expected, but the main research will focus on the protocol layers above. General knowledge is also expected on the role and interaction of different domains of a global communication network such as the optical transport network.

The research of the new assistant professor will be extending and complementing our current research in classical Internet and IoT, with a focus on use cases for defense, public safety, eHealth/telemedicine, autonomous transport (networks for trains, cars and aircraft) and use of advanced tools such as in network programming (P4), function virtualization and similar.

The research will to a large extent focus on how control and management functions are used to provide stability and availability/security and exploit/assign the capacity of resources in the most efficient way (impact of bandwidth size and location in the spectrum).

You will become part of the Network Technology group conducting both fundamental and applied research, with strong international collaboration in the field of communication networking. Most of the research is carried out in collaboration with international recognised universities and companies and is primarily based on external research grants.

The research group is as well strongly engaged in teaching at BSc, MSc and PhD level and it is expected that you will be an integrated part of these teaching activities with responsibility for maintaining and modifying existing courses and establishing new courses within your field of research.

As tenure track assistant professor you will under guidance of the current senior staff be able to build or strengthen your research profile within one or more of the following topics:

• Wireless communication protocols (LPWAN etc)
• Link models and antenna architectures (MIMO concept, beamforming, gain)
• Network security and availability
• Network planning, simulation and dimensioning
• Application mapping towards network performance parameters (bitrate, latency, loss)
• Network function prototyping and validation (both hardware and software) – proof of concept

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 to be able to teach BSc. students.

As formal qualification you must hold a PhD degree (or equivalent).

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

Salary and terms of employment
The appointment will be based on the collective agreement with the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations. The allowance will be agreed upon with the relevant union.

The position is part of DTU’s Tenure Track program. Read more about the program and the recruitment process here.

You can read more about career paths at DTU here.

Further information
Further information may be obtained from Professor Lars Dittmann, ladit@dtu.dk.

You can read more about DTU Electro at www.electro.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
Your complete online application must be submitted no later than 11 May 2025 (23:59 Danish time). Applications must be submitted as one PDF file containing all materials to be given consideration. To apply, please open the link "Apply now", fill out the online application form, and attach all your materials in English in one PDF file. The file must include:

• Application (cover letter)
• Vision for teaching and research for the tenure track period
• CV including employment history, list of publications, H-index and ORCID (see http://orcid.org/)
• Teaching portfolio including documentation of teaching experience
• Academic Diplomas (MSc/PhD)

Applications received after the deadline will not be considered.

All interested candidates irrespective of age, gender, disability, race, religion or ethnic background are encouraged to apply. As DTU works with research in critical technology, which is subject to special rules for security and export control, open-source background checks may be conducted on qualified candidates for the position.

Technology for people
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