Professor in Product Development - DTU Engineering Technology

If you are passionate about creating impact for society, and want to be at the forefront of university-industry collaboration, and if you are you an experienced academic leader looking for a challenging senior leadership position, this may be the position to fulfil your dreams and ambitions.
If you are passionate about creating impact for society, and want to be at the forefront of university-industry collaboration, and if you are you an experienced academic leader looking for a challenging senior leadership position, this may be the position to fulfil your dreams and ambitions.

We seek to appoint a new Professor in the field of product development to take lead in bringing new technologies to society through focus on sustainable design, sustainable products, product’s service life and disposal, product’s life cycle and the socio-technical challenges related to products.

You will be part of DTU Engineering Technology, a department covering the engineering technologies spectrum to business and organizational disciplines. With this professorship we want to enhance our research in the section of Innovation Processes and Entrepreneurship of five faculty and PhD students. Our group is diverse in culture, nationalities, personality types and career paths from industry and academia. We enjoy collegial idea generation, feedback, and cooperation in an informal, safe and fun working environment. We value our diversity in the daily work, where our collaboration benefits from academic, industrial, and educational perspectives. We have strong industry competences and collaborate extensively with industry regarding innovation and design processes in companies and healthcare. Most collaborations are conducted through portfolio projects with several SMEs, where new technologies, such as electronics, sensors, and digital technologies are implemented in new products and processes concerning integration of user needs, sustainability, and digital potentials.

With this professorship we want to enhance the research aim of the department to be leading in research within technology implementation through design and product development and product life cycle as a framework for implementation of new technologies.

Responsibilities and qualifications

Your overall focus will be to strengthen the department’s competences within technology implementation through design with focus on sustainable and industrial design, and product development with focus on the product service life and life cycle. Your expertise in product development will influence the department’s activities at two levels. At department level you will contribute with your expertise in product development in e.g. the field of power engineering, software engineering, mechanical engineering and civil engineering. At section level, your expertise will drive our research agenda of sustainable design and sustainable products with perspectives of the product development phases and modelling with design drivers, e.g. user needs, stakeholder management, production processes, interfaces and data management, sustainability, digital potential etc.

You will work with nearby colleagues, academic and industrial partners in Denmark as well as abroad. Your primary tasks will be to:

• Take leadership at different stages of project development, including the seeding of ideas to identify scientific knowledge gaps of relevance and match with funding opportunities
• Execute multidisciplinary projects with diverse team members from mechanical engineering to designers and users from different institutions and companies
• Lead your research area and be highly visible in the international networks of relevance though publications and collaborations
• Teach within multiple BEng study programs, with different perspectives within product development: design modelling, design thinking, human centered design, sustainable design, industrial design and product development.
• Supervise bachelor, master and PhD projects
• Develop integrated laboratory activities, tests, and experiments with a focus on technology implementation.

Our expectations to you are the following:

• Documented research experience and excellence in industrial design, design modelling and analysis
• A clear vision for the research field, the development of the research group and the collaboration within DTU and abroad
• Experience with scientific advice for authorities within growth and business promotion as well as working closely with industry
• A clear strategy for which collaborators at other research institutions to engage with, with which industries to initiate collaboration with, and how to provide advice to governmental agencies on the newest knowledge in the field
• An experienced leader of technological implementation with solid experience within management of research and staff

You are expected to take a lead role in teaching at the BEng, BSc, MSc and PhD levels.

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.

You will be assessed against the responsibilities and qualifications stated above and the following general criteria:

• Documented experience and quality of teaching and curriculum development
• Research impact and experience, funding track record and research vision
• 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.

Starting date will be according to mutual agreement. The position is a full-time position.

Further information

Further information may be obtained from Institute Director Malene Kirstine Holst, email:

[email protected], cell phone: +45 93 51 15 71 or Head of Section Sara Grex, email:

[email protected], cell phone: +45 26 24 77 47.

You can read more about Engineering Technology at:

https://engtech.dtu.dk/english

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 12 May 2024 (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) addressed to the President
• Vision for teaching, research, and advisory service
• CV including employment history, list of publications indicating scientific highlights, H-index and ORCID (see

http://orcid.org/)

• Teaching portfolio including documentation of teaching experience
• Academic Diplomas (MSc/PhD)

You can learn more about the recruitment process

here.

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.

DTU Engineering Technology

We work at the forefront of university-industry collaboration and develop tools and methods for technology implementation. We are organized in 9 sections all focused on technology implementation, engineering technology and engineering education within a wide range of engineering fields.

Technology for people

DTU develops technology for people. With our international elite research and study programmes, we are helping to create a better world and to solve the global challenges formulated in the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Hans Christian Ørsted founded DTU in 1829 with a clear mission to develop and create value using science and engineering to benefit society. That mission lives on today. DTU has 13,500 students and 6,000 employees. We work in an international atmosphere and have an inclusive, evolving, and informal working environment. DTU has campuses in all parts of Denmark and in Greenland, and we collaborate with the best universities around the world.

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