"Associate Professor in Automatic Control"

Description of subject area of the employment:

Automatic control is an interdisciplinary research area that comprises control theory and control technology, integrating related areas such as dynamical systems, statistics, estimation, and optimization. Control theory is part of applied mathematics and concerned with analysis and design of controllers and estimators for dynamical systems. Control technology fosters the mathematical methods that explain why and how natural, engineered, and social systems evolve in time and space, what kind of behaviors they exhibit in their development, as well as how to influence these behaviors in a predictable way. Automatic control constitutes the backbone of existing industrial technology and underpins many emerging engineering fields such as synthetic biology, vertical farming, smart grid, to name a few. Beyond industrial applications, automatic control is also instrumental to address emerging societal and environmental challenges involving interactions between complex systems over time. 

 Duties:

• Teaching, research and administration. Teaching duties include course responsibility and course administration and supervision of first, second- and third-cycle students. We are looking, in particular, for candidates who can teach basic as well as advanced courses in automatic control, process control, model-predictive control, and are interested in renewing the course portfolio in automatic control in connection to different application areas.
• Building an active research group with specialization in automatic control. The position is initially associated with funding for one PhD student and startup funds for conferences, networking, etc.
• The person appointed will be expected to perform research in automatic control and be able to interact and generate synergies with existing research directions within the program.
• 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 include leadership/administrative tasks.

Qualifications Required:

• PhD in automatic control, applied mathematics, engineering, or related areas. PhDs in other fields, where the research work has focused on control theory and technology as well as their applications, are eligible for this position.
• 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.
• Experience of PhD student supervision is required.
• 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.
• Personal capabilities necessary to carry out fully the duties of the appointment.