Associate Professor or DTU Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Cybersecurity

We are looking for an associate professor or tenure-track assistant professor to extend and/or strengthen current research and teaching at the Cybersecurity Engineering Section at DTU Compute, Technical University of Denmark.

You could be our new colleague if you are a talented and ambitious researcher with a strong passion for cybersecurity and a genuine drive to create societal impact through collaboration with partners across both the private and public sectors. You are expected to embrace and actively contribute to our mission which is to strengthen, advance and integrate foundational and applied research in cybersecurity and cryptography in order to anticipate and respond to evolving scientific, technological, and societal challenges.

We are committed to academic excellence within a highly international environment defined by collegial respect, intellectual curiosity, and academic freedom grounded in responsibility. We value intellectual independence and offer you the autonomy to pursue research topics that truly interest you. We recognize and promote diverse forms of talent, supporting your individual interests and strengths. At the same time, we appreciate the importance of balance: for example, we ensure a reasonable teaching load, enabling you to dedicate significant time and energy to advancing your research.

The university is located in the greater Copenhagen area, which is acknowledged for its excellent standards of living, childcare and welfare system.

Responsibilities and qualifications

Your focus will be to strengthen and/or expand our research in cybersecurity and cryptography, which currently spans a broad spectrum of areas, including proactive security (with a strong focus on the emerging field of defensive cyber deception), critical infrastructure security, distributed system security, IoT security, malware and intrusion detection, emerging technologies (e.g., AI and blockchain), human aspects of security (including cyber-psychology and sociological factors), cyber-defense, privacy and privacy enhancing technologies, formal verification of security protocols and systems, cryptographic algorithms and protocols, analysis of the security of cryptographic algorithms, post-quantum security. More details can be found on the CSE Web site.

We are currently involved in a number of externally funded projects, and we expect that you will actively seek to attract funding from private and public sources, including both national and international research funding agencies.

As a part of your key responsibilities, you will:

• Publish impactful work in leading journals and conferences in your field
• Teach cybersecurity courses in the context of our study programs as well as continuing education (industry, DTU’s MBA, …)
• Teach, guide, and supervise BSc and MSc student projects, as well as supervise PhD students
• Actively participate in creating a robust and vibrant environment within the Cybersecurity Engineering section
• Secure funding for your research area from both Denmark and the European Union

Application procedure

To apply, please read the full job advertisement by clicking the Apply button above. 

Application deadline: 30 April 2026

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