Associate Professor in Geohydrology with specialization in Coupled Processes - Hiring in process/Finished, not possible to apply

The Department of Earth Sciences is one of the most complete such academic departments in Europe. Our research focuses on subjects that range from the Earth’s core to the atmosphere, on scales from sub-microscopic structures in minerals to the formation of mountains and oceans. We have teaching at undergraduate and graduate levels. Our courses offer a wide range within the geoscience area and several of the department's programs have received the highest rating in evaluations by the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education and the Swedish Higher Education Authority.

The successful candidate will join the research program Air, Water and Landscape Sciences, at the Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Sweden. In addition, the position has connections to other closely related programs, such as Geophysics and Mineralogy, petrology and tectonics.

Description of Subject Area: The position has a focus in geohydrology coupled to other processes such as seismicity (induced by fluid injection) and rock mechanical and thermal phenomena.

Duties:

• Teaching, research and administration. Teaching duties include course responsibility and course administration and supervision of second- and third-cycle students in Earth Science and in the civil engineering program Environment and Water Technology.

• Follow developments within the subject area and the development of society in general that is important for the work at the University.

• The position may come to include administrative duties within the faculty.

Qualifications Required:

• PhD in relevant Earth Sciences discipline such as geohydrology, rock mechanics, geophysics, or in petroleum or water resources engineering or related field.

• 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 or 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 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 and demonstrated experience in geohydrology in the context of coupled processes, such as coupled hydro-mechanical processes, including modeling and model development of them. Experience in experimental studies, in field and laboratory measurement techniques and interpretation of measurement data is also a merit.

Candidates need not only to have interest in related applications to important energy or climatic related problems facing the society today, but also a long-term vision in the development of the scientific field of coupling deep hydrogeology to related geoscientific disciplines.

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. Special consideration will be put on teaching experience in the areas of hydrology, geohydrology and geohydrological modeling, fluid mechanics, and rock/soil mechanics. Experience in teaching in hydrological/mechanical technical systems and field observations is also a merit. Supervision and examination of student projects and final essays is meriting.

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.

Administrative Expertise is important for the employment and will be given consideration. Administrative expertise is demonstrated, for example, through the capacity to plan, organize, and prioritize work in an efficient and task-related manner as well as through the ability to assign and observe time frames. Expertise includes overall operational planning and the capacity to manage resources in a way that reflects operational priorities as well as the ability to work in a structured manner based on an awareness of goals and quality. Administrative expertise also includes entrepreneurship.

Management Expertise is important and will be afforded consideration.

Collaboration Expertise is important and will be afforded consideration. Collaborative expertise is demonstrated by the ability and skill of planning, organizing and implementing interaction with the surrounding community. Other examples of collaboration are patent applications, commercialization and industrial cooperation.

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: 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.

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 Auli Niemi, tel +46 709 10 8887,auli.niemi@geo.uu.se auli.niemi@geo.uu.se,

Veijo Pohjola, veijo.pohjola@geo.uu.se, head of programme

Rickard Pettersson, rickard.pettersson@geo.uu.se, director of studies

Salary: Individually negotiated salary.

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

Type of employment: Permanent full-time position.

Scope of employment: 100 %

Please submit your application by 29 of October, UFV-PA 2021/2826.

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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