DTU Tenure Track Assistant Professor in waste management, resource engineering and circularity - DTU Sustain

If you want to boost your career as a researcher and educator in waste management, resource engineering and circularity, here is your chance! We offer a new opportunity to join the faculty in one of the world’s leading university departments in environmental and resource engineering.
If you want to boost your career as a researcher and educator in waste management, resource engineering, and circularity, here is your chance! We offer a new opportunity to join the faculty in one of the world’s leading university departments in environmental and resource engineering. At DTU Sustain, you will work at the forefront of science, providing solutions to major societal challenges related to climate change, circularity, sustainability, and environmental quality.

DTU Sustain has been very productive and successful during the last decades within waste management, resource engineering, and circularity. Currently, 9 faculty members focus on these topics, and fortunately, we are now able to add one more scientist within this area. This new position is defined below, and candidates should be able to collaborate with the existing faculty members, but also add new expertise and dedication to the group. Current topics in the group are emission monitoring, landfill biocovers, organic waste management, textile and plastic waste, carbon capture, and LCA modelling and resource circularity.

Responsibilities and qualifications
Your overall focus will be to strengthen DTU Sustain’s competences within the circularity and waste management of household waste with a focus on textiles and similar consumer goods, through material characterization and application of Material Flow Analysis (MFA) and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). In addition, you will be responsible for coordinating our bachelor’s level Resource Engineering course, which is a cornerstone in our environmental engineering program. You will assist in planning and facilitating courses in the LCA of Waste Management Systems, as well as collaborate with educators across the department in developing collaborative and interdisciplinary approaches within MFA and LCA across different research domains.

Your expertise should contribute to further development of these topics, but can potentially also add new relevant topics beyond these. You will interact with students, academia, public authorities, consultants, and industrial partners in Denmark as well as abroad.

We expect that you have a strong background in textile- and plastic-waste assessment with both lab and modelling experience, preferably with an engineering (or similar) background or experience.

Your primary tasks will be, in collaboration with the group, to:

• Communicate and collaborate with key stakeholders in the waste management and business sectors of the Danish market to develop new and innovative approaches for sampling and modeling the flows of waste in society today.
• Perform research at an international level in the cross-field of waste, resources, sustainability, and circularity.
• Build up, develop, and contribute with new experimental approaches and methods for modelling resources, and prospective waste management scenarios.
• Build up, develop, and maintain waste LCA databases (waste management technologies, household and industrial waste fractions, etc).
• Develop insight into specific waste problems and/or specific waste technologies to contribute to the data-based system modelling constituting a common platform for our research.
• Contribute to research in the group and with colleagues in related sections (materials, environmental assessment, etc.).
• Develop and promote the EASETECH tool, for which previous in-depth working knowledge is a requirement and must be documented in the application.
• Teach and supervise BSc and MSc student projects and be a supervisor for PhD students covering a broad range of waste-related topics.
• Show interest in sustainability theory and practice, as well as a firm theoretical grounding is sustainable transition planning.

For the position, the potential for contributing to the group and for world-class performance within the area is key in the evaluation process. The documentation for past performance and achievements, especially within the area of scientific advice, is important for the position. Candidates are not expected to meet all the wishes nor perform within all the topics listed above.

You must 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).

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 September 1st 2025 or according to mutual agreement. The position is a full-time position.

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 Head of Section, Professor Charlotte Scheutz, chas@dtu.dk, tel.: +45 26285828

You can read more about DTU Sustain at www.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
Your complete online application must be submitted no later than 9 April 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.

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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