Associate Professor in Industrial Engineering and Management with specialization in Energy markets - Hiring in process/Finished, not possible to apply

The Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering consists of three departments: quality engineering, industrial engineering, and construction engineering and built environment. The department has approximately 80 employees and has its research and education both at the Ångström Laboratory in Uppsala and on Campus Gotland. This position will be located at the Division of Industrial Engineering and Management in Uppsala. For more information, see the department's website https://www.cie.uu.se.

Description of subject area of the employment: Industrial Engineering and Management is a broad, interdisciplinary subject spanning several sub-areas including organization and management, innovation and entrepreneurship, as well as industrial and social marketing within technology and innovation-intensive activities, automation and optimization, machine design, production, and production systems. In this subject area, the role is concentrated on energy markets.

Duties:

• Teaching, research and administration. Teaching duties include course responsibility and course administration and supervision of second- and third-cycle students. Supervision of project work as well as degree projects.
  
• Follow developments within the subject area and the development of society in general that is important for the work at the university.
  
• Collaboration with stakeholders in the energy field.

Qualifications Required:

• PhD or have the corresponding research competence or some other professional expertise.
  
• Research Expertise and Teaching 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.
  
• Applicants 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.

• Documented ability to teach in Swedish and English is a requirement unless special reasons prevail. The holder is expected to be able to teach in Swedish within two years.
  
• Personal capabilities necessary to carry out fully the duties of the appointment.

Assessment Criteria/Ranking of applicants that fulfil the above-mentioned qualifications required:

The ranking of eligible applicants will be based primarily on research and teaching expertise, of which weight will be primarily given to research expertise.

Research Expertise comprises research merits. In addition to academic merits, research merits from other activities, including technology development, may also be taken into account including research merits obtained outside the academy, which includes for example technology development and innovation ability. In assessing research expertise research quality must be the prime consideration. The scope of research, primarily in regard to depth and breadth, must also be afforded consideration. In assessing research expertise special weight will be attached to research merits concerning electricity users’ attitudes and behaviour, as well as electricity producers' strategies, business models, products and services.

Furthermore, consideration must be given to the capacity to plan, initiate, lead, and develop research and education in the third cycle, the ability to acquire funding for research in competition, as well as the demonstrated capacity to interact with others both within academia and in the wider community.

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 teaching quality must be the prime consideration. The scope of teaching experience, in terms of both breadth and depth, must also be afforded consideration. In assessing teaching expertise special weight will be attached to merits in the supervision of project work, degree projects, and doctoral projects.

Furthermore, consideration must be given to the capacity to plan, initiate, lead, and develop teaching and instruction, as well as the ability to connect research to teaching in respect to research in the subject at hand, subject didactics, as well as teaching and learning in higher education. The ability to interact concerning issues of teaching and learning in higher education with actors inside and outside the University is also included in teaching expertise.

Collaboration Expertise is important and will be afforded high consideration. Collaborative expertise is demonstrated by the ability and skill of planning, organizing and implementing interaction with the surrounding community. Popular publications, public debate and lectures are examples of forms of interaction with the surrounding community. Other examples of collaboration are patent applications, commercialization and industrial cooperation. The ability to translate knowledge sharing with the surrounding community into activities of importance to the education's development and quality is part of the collaboration expertise.

Other Expertise: 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.

Further information: 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.

University appointment regulations

Faculty appointment regulations

Instructions for application

For further information about the position, please contact professor Thomas Lennerfors, 0701679553, e-mail thomas.lennerfors@angstrom.uu.se.

Salary: Individually negotiated salary.

Starting date: As soon as possible or as otherwise agreed

Type of employment: Permanent position.

Scope of employment: 100 %.

Please submit your application by December 11, 2020, UFV-PA 2020/3553.

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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