DTU Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Contaminated Sites – DTU Sustain

Job title:

DTU Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Contaminated Sites – DTU Sustain

Company:

Danmarks Tekniske Universitet

Job description

Job Description:If you want to boost your career as researcher and educator in the area of groundwater contamination, here is the chance! We offer an opportunity to join the faculty at one of the world’s leading university departments in environmental engineering. At DTU Sustain you work at the forefront of science providing solutions to major societal challenges related to climate change, circularity, sustainability, and environmental quality.Team players in environmental engineering
Your overall focus will be to strengthen DTU Sustain’s competences within the areas of soil & groundwater remediation and risk assessment of contaminated sites. You will work in our section of Environmental Contamination & Chemicals dealing with groundwater, hydrogeology, groundwater-surface water interaction, risk assessment and sustainable mitigation of contamination sources and numerical modeling. You will interact with academia, public authorities, consultants, and industrial partners in Denmark as well as abroad.We expect that you have a strong Danish and/or international platform within environmental microbiology and chemistry with an engineering (or similar) background in water resources, soil-groundwater systems, contaminant hydrogeology, environmental microbiology and chemistry. Your primary tasks will be to:

• Teach and supervise BSc and MSc student projects, and be co-supervisor for PhD students covering a broad of range of topics related to groundwater contamination
• Perform research at an international level in the interdisciplinary areas of contaminant hydrogeology and environmental chemistry with particular focus on transport and fate of organic chemicals arising from contaminated sites.
• Develop concepts and technologies for sustainable soil and groundwater remediation
• Build up, develop and contribute with new approaches and methods (laboratory, field), process understanding, and conceptual models.
• Contribute to research in the group and with colleagues in the environmental chemistry, water resources, urban water area, and other related fields

We are looking for a scientific talent with the skills and ambitions to see the sky as the limit and world class as a natural guiding light. To succeed, you must like to create results via knowledge sharing and constructive collaboration with due respect to professional and cultural differences – and be able to give and take feedback with an open mind. Additionally, you must be curious and constantly expand your field of expertise. As teacher, you must like to coach and be able to communicate in an inspiring and motivating way – you set the standards for the engineers of the future.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 formal qualification you must hold a PhD degree (or equivalent).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 part of DTU’s Tenure Track program. Read more about the program and the recruitment process .You can read more about career paths at DTU .We offer a full-time position, and the starting date will be according to mutual agreement.Further information
Further information may be obtained from Head of Section, Professor Anders Baun, , tel.: +45 4525 1567.You can read more about The Department of Environmental and Resource Engineering at .If you are applying from abroad, you may find useful information on working in Denmark and at DTU at .Application procedure
Your complete online application must be submitted no later than 1 September 2024 (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 for the tenure track period
• CV including employment history, list of publications, H-index and ORCID (see

) including documentation of teaching experience * Academic Diplomas (MSc/PhD)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.DTU Sustain – Department of Environmental and Resource Engineering – is one of the largest university departments specializing in environmental and resource engineering in Europe. The department conducts research, development & scientific advice and provides educational programs and service to society. We are working to develop new environmentally friendly and sustainable technologies, methods and solutions, and to disseminate this knowledge to society and future generations of engineers. The Department has approximately 300 staff from more than 30 nationalities.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.

Expected salary

Location

Kongens Lyngby, Hovedstaden – Lyngby, Midtjylland

Job date

Tue, 25 Jun 2024 23:34:19 GMT

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