"Assistant Professor / Associate Professor / Professor of Production Animal Medicine"

The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine invites applications for the position of Assistant Professor / Associate Professor / Professor of Production Animal Medicine (in Finnish: tuotantoeläinten terveyden ja sairaanhoito / in Swedish: hälsa och sjukvård för lantbruksdjur). The applicant may be appointed as an Assistant/Associate Professor (tenure track) or as a full Professor, based on qualifications and career stage. All stages of the tenure track can be entered directly. The position is at the Department of Production Animal Medicine in Mäntsälä campus (approximately one hour north of Helsinki). The appointee will handle teaching, research, and continuing education on health and diseases of monogastric production animals, focusing on pig health and diseases, and coordinating poultry medicine teaching. Responsibilities include experience in clinical pig medicine, diseases of individual animals, and population-level preventive healthcare. Duties involve teaching and supervising veterinary undergraduate and postgraduate students in production animal medicine, with a focus on pig and poultry, including herd health visits to pig farms.

Qualifications: A DVM or equivalent degree and EU veterinary license are required. Veterinary specialization in an appropriate field and understanding of Nordic animal production are merits. For Assistant/Associate Professor, a PhD in pig medicine or suitable field, ability to conduct independent research, teaching skills, and motivation for an academic career are needed. For full Professor, top-level scholarly qualifications, ability to obtain research funding, lead a research group, supervise PhD students, provide research-based teaching, and demonstrate international collaboration are required. Fluency in English is essential; proficiency in Finnish or Swedish is expected for communication with stakeholders, with support for language studies provided.

Assessment considers research, teaching, supervision, public engagement, and experience in production animal medicine, especially pigs. For more on the tenure track, see https://www.helsinki.fi/en/about-us/careers/academic-careers/university-helsinki-tenure-track.

The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Helsinki is the only institution in Finland training veterinarians, with departments in Food Hygiene and Environmental Health, Equine and Small Animal Medicine, Production Animal Medicine, and Veterinary Biosciences. It offers versatile work, professional development, and employee services including health care and family benefits. Salary: Annual gross 57,000 - 74,000 euros for Assistant/Associate Professor and 70,000 - 90,000 euros for Professor, plus a start-up package.

How to apply: Submit a single PDF file with cover letter, academic portfolio, publication list, synopsis of up to 10 publications, and a plan for research and teaching advancement (max 2 pages) through the University recruitment portal. For templates, see https://www.helsinki.fi/en/about-us/careers/open-positions/instructions-applicants-teaching-and-research-positions. Teaching skills assessment uses https://www.helsinki.fi/en/faculty-veterinary-medicine/about-us/work-us/assessment-teaching-skills. Deadline: August 20, 2025.