Associate Professor in Industrial Engineering & Management with specialization in Industrial Analytics - Hiring in process/Finished, not possible to apply

The Division of Industrial Engineering & Management is today part of the Department of Engineering Sciences. As of 2020-01-01 the Department of Engineering Sciences will be divided in three new departments. The Division of Industrial Engineering & Management will belong to the Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering.

Description of Subject Area: Industrial Engineering & Management is a broad, interdisciplinary subject that spans several sub-areas: from machine design, production and production systems over automation and optimization to organization and management, innovation and entrepreneurship in technology and or innovation-intensive businesses.

Duties: The position includes teaching, research, administration and collaboration. Teaching duties include course responsibility, course administration and supervision of second- and third-cycle students. The holder shall also keep abreast of developments within the subject area and the developments in wider community that are significant for the work at the university. The position may include management tasks or other administrative tasks such as program and development responsibility for existing and future education programs on basic and advanced levels.

Qualifications Required: According to the Swedish Higher Education Ordinance those qualified for appointment as Associate Professor are persons who have demonstrated teaching expertise and been awarded a PhD or have the corresponding research competence or some other professional expertise. It is necessary that the pedagogical skills, the research expertise and the professional skills are relevant to the content of the employment and the tasks that will be included in the employment.

According to the appointment regulations of Uppsala University to be eligible for appointment as Associate Professor applicants also must have completed teacher training of relevance to operations at the University, comprising ten weeks, or have acquired the equivalent knowledge. If special circumstances apply, this training for teachers in higher education may be completed during the first two years of employment. A general eligibility requirement is that the applicant must possess the personal capabilities necessary to carry out fully the duties of the appointment.

Documented ability to teach in Swedish and/or English is a requirement unless special reasons prevail. The holder is expected to be able to teach in Swedish within two years.

An applicant who is offered an employment as Associate Professor can be promoted to professor if he/she has applied for this, is qualified for such a post, and moreover has been deemed suitable on the basis of the specific criteria established by the faculty board.

Assessment Criteria/Ranking

Research Expertise and Teaching Expertise: The ranking of eligible applicants will be based primarily on research and teaching expertise, which will be given equal weight.

Research expertise comprises research merits including research merits obtained outside the academy, which includes for example technology development and innovation ability. In assessing research expertise special weight will be attached to research merits in industrially applied machine learning and computational intelligence and/or cyber physical systems (digital twins).

As much attention shall be given to the assessment of teaching expertise as to the assessment of research expertise. Teaching expertise comprises educational and teaching qualifications. This expertise can have been achieved outside the academy through supervision, internal training, mentoring programs, etc. In assessing teaching expertise special weight will be attached to merits of broad and deep pedagogical familiarity in areas related to industrially applied machine learning and computational intelligence and/or cyber physical systems (digital twins).

Administrative Expertise: Administrative expertise is important for the employment and will be afforded consideration. Administrative expertise also includes entrepreneurship.

Management Expertise: Management expertise is important and will be afforded consideration.

Collaboration Expertise: Collaboration expertise is important and will be afforded consideration.

All merits must be documented in a manner that makes it possible to assess both quality and scope.

In filling this position the university aims to appoint the applicant who, following a qualitative holistic assessment of her/his competence and expertise, is judged to have the best potential to carry out and develop the relevant duties and to help advance operations.

In an overall assessment of the applicant’s qualifications, parental leave, part-time work relating to care of children, union assignments, military service, or the like are to be regarded as work experience.

Uppsala University strives to be an inclusive workplace that promotes equal opportunities and attracts qualified candidates who can contribute to the University’s excellence and diversity. We welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people of all backgrounds. At present there are more employees with legal gender man than legal gender woman among Associate Professors within the Faculty. The university is striving for a more balanced gender distribution within this category.

Salary: Individually negotiated salary.

Starting date: As soon as possible or as otherwise agreed.

Type of position: Permanent full-time position.

For further information about the position please contact Matías Urenda Moris matias.urenda-moris@angstrom.uu.se or Marcus Lindahl marcus.lindahl@angstrom.uu.se.

For further information please see Uppsala University appointment regulations and Faculty appointment regulations.

Please submit your application by January 31 2020, at the latest UFV-PA 2019/3652.

In the event of any disagreement between the English and the Swedish versions of this announcement, the Swedish version takes precedence.

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