"Associate Professor or DTU Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Sustainable Production and Supply Chains - DTU Engineering Technology"

Associate Professor or DTU Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Sustainable Production and Supply Chains - DTU Engineering Technology

Ballerup, Denmark

Job Description

Do you want to take part in the green transition and shape the future in production and supply chains? Do you have a passion for sustainability, innovation and engineering education? 

We invite you to join our section “Production, Transportation and Planning”, where you will have colleagues with a mix of research and industry experience. Our current team of researchers within production and supply chains work with technology implementation, digitalization and automation, LEAN manufacturing, quality management, life cycle assessment, circular supply chains, and freight transportation.

You will complement this team with your expertise in sustainable production and supply chains. We are particularly interested in researching the intersections between our team members’ research areas, and the role of new technologies for creating sustainable production and supply chains. You will contribute to the section’s research within the following areas:

• The impact of production companies on climate and nature, including GHG emissions, pollution, land use, biodiversity, and resource consumption
• Managing, controlling, reporting and improving ESG performance, including the legislative context for industry (e.g. EU regulations and the three scopes in the GHG protocol)
• The role and impact of technology in the sustainable development of industry
• Risks and opportunities arising from changes in climate, resource scarcity and environmental degradation

Our section is diverse in culture, gender, nationalities, personality types, and career paths. We enjoy collegial idea generation, feedback and cooperation in an informal, safe and fun working environment. We are all motivated by contributing to a sustainable, livable future. If you have the same motivation, you will fit perfectly with our team.

Responsibilities and qualifications 

Your overall focus will be to strengthen our teaching and research in the field of Sustainable Production and Supply Chains. We expect you to take the lead in driving the academic agenda and delivering impact to society and our common future. To do so, you will:

• Develop the research field by defining ideas and concepts for future projects
• Write and collaborate on research proposals, incl. PhD projects
• Conduct and (in time) lead research projects with partners across the globe
• If associate professor, supervise PhDs; if assistant professor, co-supervise PhDs
• Teach and supervise in engineering education and continuing education
• Apply both qualitative and quantitative methods

You must be responsible for the teaching of courses. DTU employs two working languages: Danish and English. You are expected to be fluent in at least one of these languages, and in time are expected to master both.

As a formal qualification you must hold a PhD degree (or equivalent). If you are applying for the associate professor position you should also have academic qualifications equivalent to those obtained by holding an assistant professorship and documented didactic/pedagogic training.

You will be assessed against the responsibilities and qualifications stated above and the following general criteria:

• Experience and quality of teaching 
• Research experience 
• Research vision and potential
• International impact and experience 
• Societal impact
• Innovativeness, including commercialization and collaboration with industry
• Leadership, collaboration, and interdisciplinary skills
• Communication skills

Salary and terms of employment

The appointment will be based on the collective agreement with the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations. The allowance will be agreed upon with the relevant union. 

The position is full-time beginning November 1, 2025, or in according to mutual agreement.

The assistant professor position is part of DTU’s Tenure Track program. Read more about the program and the recruitment process here.

You can read more about career paths at DTU here.

Further information

Further information may be obtained from Samuel Brüning Larsen, section head (email: sbla@dtu.dk)

You can read more about DTU Engineering Technology at https://engtech.dtu.dk/ 

If you are applying from abroad, you may find useful information on working in Denmark and at DTU at DTU – Moving to Denmark.

Application procedure

Please submit your online application no later than 20 August 2025 (23:59 Danish time). 

Applications must be submitted as one PDF file containing all materials to be given consideration. To apply, please open the link "Apply now", fill out the online application form, and attach all your materials in English in one PDF file. The file must include:

• Application (cover letter)
• Vision for teaching and research 
• CV including employment history, list of publications (applicants applying for the position as associate professor should indicate scientific highlights), H-index and ORCID (see http://orcid.org/)
• Teaching portfolio including documentation of teaching experience
• Academic Diplomas (MSc/PhD)

You can learn more about the recruitment process here.

Please indicate whether you are applying for the position as Associate or Assistant Professor.

Applications received after the deadline will not be considered.

All interested candidates irrespective of age, gender, disability, race, religion or ethnic background are encouraged to apply. As DTU works with research in critical technology, which is subject to special rules for security and export control, open-source background checks may be conducted on qualified candidates for the position.

About DTU Engineering Technology

We work at the forefront of university-industry collaboration and develop tools and methods for technology implementation. We are organized in nine research groups all focused on technology implementation, engineering technology and engineering education within a wide range of engineering fields.

Technology for people

DTU develops technology for people. With our international elite research and study programmes, we are helping to create a better world and to solve the global challenges formulated in the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Hans Christian Ørsted founded DTU in 1829 with a clear mission to develop and create value using science and engineering to benefit society. That mission lives on today. DTU has 13,500 students and 6,000 employees. We work in an international atmosphere and have an inclusive, evolving, and informal working environment. DTU has campuses in all parts of Denmark and in Greenland, and we collaborate with the best universities around the world.

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