Associate professor or Assistant professor in Automatic Control

Do you want to contribute to a more sustainable society? As an assistant or associate professor in Automatic control, you will shape the future generations of control engineers, and work towards finding new applications and theoretical results in collaboration with academia and industry.

The position is a full-time faculty position, placed at the Department of Electrical Engineering. The department is characterized by a dynamic and international work environment with about 220 employees from more than 20 countries, with extensive national and international research collaborations with academia, industry and society.

The position can either be as an assistant or as an associate professor, depending on your qualifications.

The department and the research group
The position is at the division of Systems and Control, which consists of four research groups: Automation, Automatic Control, Mechatronics and Bionics, where each group has 20-35 professors, researchers, postdocs and PhD students. Apart from teaching activities at undergraduate level, the division manages one of the largest master programs at Chalmers; Systems, Control and Mechatronics. The division also manages Revere, a vehicle research lab focusing on autonomous vehicles, active safety, and vehicle dynamics, and also the competence center SAFER, which focuses on systems for traffic safety.

A large part of, but far from all, research is carried out in collaboration with the vehicle industry with particular focus on electric vehicle applications, transportation, energy management, battery management systems, hybridization, active safety, autonomous driving, and automated production. At the same time, new methods and theory are developed in, for example, robust control, optimal control, and process control.

Job description
The majority of your work will be carried out as individual research and research by supervision, based on funding attracted from external sources as well as from Chalmers. In particular, it is important that you have the ability to get projects granted in collaboration with academic partners, the vehicle industry or other companies. This requires good abilities for networking, creating new ideas, and communicating research results. Applied research as well as new theory of international interest, and ambitions to contribute to a more sustainable society, is expected.

You will also develop courses and carry out teaching on undergraduate and graduate level in Control, and supervise MSc and PhD students in Automatic control.

Your profile 
You are a highly motivated researcher with a PhD degree in Automatic Control or equivalent. For an assistant professor, the doctoral degree must not be older than 7 years prior to the application deadline. Exceptions can be made for verified periods of parental leave, sick leave, or military service*.

We would like you to have experience of collaboration with industry. For the associate professor level, other mandatory requirements are:

 -Experience in teaching and demonstrated good teaching proficiency at undergraduate as well as graduate level

- Experience of PhD supervision

- A publication record in reputable international journals demonstrating width, depth and originality.

- A record of approved research grants in national or international competition from research agencies, foundations or industry.

For assistant professor level, the above is not mandatory but of course a merit.

A research background matching the group's competence and clear qualifications in leading research projects, utilization, and research on vehicular applications, are advantageous but not necessary.

The position requires sound verbal and written communication skills in English. If Swedish is not your native language, we would like you to acquire sufficient knowledge to be able to communicate and teach in Swedish within a few years. Chalmers offers Swedish courses.

For a full definition of the qualifications and duties of an assistant or an associate professor, please consult our Rules of Procedure – Chalmers University of Technology's Appointment Regulations for Teaching and Research Faculty, Chapter 6.3-6.4.

 * The date shown in your doctoral degree certificate is the date we use, as this is the date you have met all requirements for the doctoral degree. 

Contract terms
Full-time employment. Associate professor at Chalmers is a permanent faculty position. The appointment as Assistant professor is a four-year, entry-level, faculty position with tenure track, whereby you will acquire both pedagogical and research qualifications. An Assistant professor is expected to improve their ability to formulate and solve scientific problems, to publish scientific articles, and to develop their skills in teaching and supervision, by means of both practical training and independent study. The aim is to achieve the level of Associate professor within four years and, if successful, you will be offered a permanent faculty position at Chalmers. 

The level of the position will be decided based on the qualifications of the selected candidate. Your qualifications and academic level will be evaluated by the department, Chalmers Faculty Appointment Committee and external evaluators.

We offer
Chalmers offers a cultivating and inspiring working environment in the coastal city of Gothenburg. 
Read more about working at Chalmers and our benefits for employees.

Chalmers aims to actively improve our gender balance. We work broadly with equality projects, for example the GENIE Initiative on gender equality for excellence. Equality and diversity are substantial foundations in all activities at Chalmers.

Application procedure
The application should be marked with Ref 20230438 and written in English. The application should be sent electronically and be attached as PDF-files, as below. Maximum size for each file is 40 MB. Please note that the system does not support Zip files.

Please follow the instructions for compiling an application for a research and teaching position at Chalmers.

Personal letter: (Please name the document as: Personal letter, Family name, Ref. number)
One page where you:
- Introduce yourself
- Describe your motivation for applying to this position and what attracts you about Chalmers
- Describe how you support your colleagues and bring about a good working environment
- Include names and full contact information of two references that we can contact.

CV: (Please name the document as: CV, Family name, Ref. number)
- Your CV (please see the CV guidelines).
- Plase include a list of 10 selected publications, with short descriptions about your role in and contribution to each of them

Research statement: (Please name the document as: Research statement, Family name, Ref. number)
- If you are applying for the position only on assistant professor level, please also include information about your previous teaching experience in this document since your application then does not have to include a pedagogical portfolio.  
One to three pages where you:
• Describe your previous research areas and main research results
• State your future research goals and focus.

Other documents:
- Certificate or Diploma verifying your doctoral degree
- Verification of leave, if relevant
- Documents verifying awards and recognitions stated in your CV, leadership or teaching activities, etc, and other documents relevant to support your application
- Copies of a maximum of five relevant publications that cannot be accessed via your ORCID, Scopus ID or ResearcherID, if relevant.

If you are applying for the position on associate professor level, your application needs to contain a pedagogical portfolio. 

Pedagogical qualifications: (Please name the document as: Pedagogical portfolio, Family name, Ref number)
• Please compile a pedagogical portfolio to describe your pedagogical and educational qualifications using the format specified in the Pedagogical Portfolio instructions.
• Please append certificates for completed courses in pedagogical training and any other documents described in the portfolio instructions.

Teaching faculty at Chalmers are required to have completed courses in higher education pedagogics in accordance with SUHF’s recommendations (REK 2016:1) or equivalent education for a total of at least 10 weeks of full-time study. External applicants who currently do not meet the SUHF requirements may be employed for a permanent position under the condition that the required education is completed within the first three years of employment.

Use the button at the foot of the page to reach the application form. 

Please note: The applicant is responsible for ensuring that the application is complete. Incomplete applications and applications sent by email will not be considered.

Application deadline: 28 April, 2024

For questions, please contact:
Professor Torsten Wik, Automatic Control
tw@chalmers.se, +46 31 772 5146

Professor Petter Falkman, Automation
petter.falkman@chalmers.se

*** Chalmers declines to consider all offers of further announcement publishing or other types of support for the recruiting process in connection with this position. *** 
   

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