Associate Professor or DTU Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Sustainability Assessment of Water Infrastructure - DTU Sustain

Would you like to boost your career as a researcher and educator in the area of sustainable water infrastructure planning, then here is an opportunity for you. We offer the opportunity to join the faculty at one of the World’s leading university departments in environmental and resource engineering.
Would you like to boost your career as a researcher and educator in the area of sustainable water infrastructure planning, then here is an opportunity for you. We offer the opportunity to join the faculty at one of the World’s leading university departments in environmental and resource engineering. At DTU Sustain you work at the forefront of science providing guidance and solutions to major societal challenges related to climate change, circularity, sustainability, and environmental quality.

Team players in environmental and resource engineering
Your overall focus will be to strengthen DTU Sustain’s competencies within sustainability assessment of water infrastructure systems, including the pipes, treatment systems and connection to urban and regional land development. You will work in our new section of Water Systems, which develops methods to guide water management in urban, peri-urban and coastal areas. This includes process understanding and modelling technologies for the whole water cycle including infrastructure components focused on drainage, stormwater management and water supply (including water reuse and water fit for purpose), and their interrelations with surface and groundwater. Climatic risks have special attention, including extreme rainfall and sea surges as well as rising groundwater levels, flooding, drought and heatwaves. So does the assessment of water management strategies at different spatial scales and including different technology options interfacing to the energy and food sectors (e.g. multifunctional land-use for climate change adaptation and power-to-X), the development of treatment technologies and monitoring and control approaches for water and pollutant fluxes, as well as the study of governance models supporting a green and digital transition while also considering resilience, biodiversity and overall sustainability.

The section currently consists of five closely collaborating faculty members and associated PhD students and Postdocs. To boost our research and teaching activities in a growing field, we are hiring three new faculty colleagues to collaborate with us. This announcement targets one of these three positions.

Responsibilities and qualifications
Water infrastructure systems are focal points of climate change impact because floods, drought and heatwaves will become more frequent and more severe in the future. Society must thus adapt to these changes while also safeguarding water security and biodiversity and increasing resilience through the use of nature-based solutions. There is a need for guiding new water infrastructure investments towards sustainability, using life cycle assessment (LCA) and other sustainability assessment methods at various spatial and temporal scales with a view to emerging governance, risk assessment, data sharing and financing models.

Your educational background could be within environmental engineering, quantitative hydrology, earth sciences, data science, environmental management, geography, or sustainability assessment, supplemented with a strong Danish and/or international platform and interest in the interface between sustainability assessment and water infrastructure systems.

Your primary tasks will be to:

• Teach courses covering a broad range of topics, supervise BSc and MSc students projects, and supervise (co-supervise if assistant professor) PhD students.
• Perform research at an international level in sustainability assessment of water infrastructure systems.
• Build up, develop and contribute with new approaches and methods, open data sets, conceptual models and software.
• Contribute to research and funding acquisition within the section, with colleagues from other sections in the department and beyond
• Establish collaboration with colleagues about problem framings, case studies and new technologies in the water sector and with DTU’s Centre for Absolute Sustainability on method development
• Interact with academia, public authorities, consultants, water utilities and industrial partners in Denmark as well as abroad

We are looking for scientific talent with the skills and ambitions to see the sky as the limit and world class as a natural guiding light. To succeed, you must like to create results via knowledge sharing and constructive collaboration with due respect to professional and cultural differences – and be open to give and receive feedback with an open mind. As teacher, you must like to coach and be able to communicate in an inspiring and motivating way – you set the standard for the engineers of the future.

You will be responsible for the teaching of courses. 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.

As formal qualification you must hold a PhD degree (or equivalent). If you are applying for the associate professor position you should also have academic qualifications equivalent to those obtained by holding an assistant professorship and documented didactic/pedagogic training.

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.

Starting date is 1 April 2025 (or according to mutual agreement). The position is a full-time position, but part-time employment may be negotiated if relevant for the position.

The assistant professor 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 Head of Section, Associate professor Roland Löwe, [email protected] or Professor Peter Steen Mikkelsen, [email protected].

You can read more about DTU Sustain at https://sustain.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
Please submit your online application no later than 31 December 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), stating your motivation to apply
• Vision for teaching and research
• Research plan for the next 5 years
• CV including employment history, list of publications (applicants applying for the position as associate professor should indicate 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.

Please indicate whether you are applying for the position as Associate or Assistant Professor.

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 Sustain - Department of Environmental and Resource Engineering - is one of the largest university departments specializing in environmental and resource engineering in Europe. The department conducts research, development & scientific advice and provides educational programs and service to society. We are working to develop new environmentally friendly and sustainable technologies, methods and solutions, and to disseminate this knowledge to society and future generations of engineers. The Department has approximately 300 staff from more than 30 nationalities.

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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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