DTU Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Macroscale Sustainability Assessment - DTU Sustain

The Department of Environmental and Resource Engineering (DTU Sustain) at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) offers a full-time Assistant Professor (tenure track) position in Macroscale Sustainability Assessment. Expected start date is 2nd half of 2025. It will be nested within the Section for Quantitative Sustainability Assessment, which also co-hosts the DTU Centre for Absolute Sustainability and hosts the DTU USEtox Research Centre.

The position aims at developing science-based solutions for addressing society’s grand environmental sustainability challenges in a team of international front-runners in quantitative, life cycle based, and absolute sustainability assessment. We have over a 16-years period been the most publishing and cited university worldwide in the research field of life cycle assessment and are co-hosting the DTU Centre for Absolute Sustainability.

The position will allow you to collaborate with researchers and stakeholders across sectors, including international top-academic institutions and experts from the public and private sectors.

The position is full-time and based at DTU Lyngby campus, just north of Copenhagen. Copenhagen is renowned around the world for its relaxed atmosphere and high quality of life.

Responsibilities and qualifications
Sustainability is a central element in DTU’s Strategy, where a strategic aim is “to develop technologies for sustainable change”. The position targets research within the field of quantitative sustainability assessment to support achieving this aim.

We hence seek highly qualified candidates with experience in one or more of the following research areas:

• Development of multi-regional input-output (MRIO) models
• Building of spatiotemporally differentiated inventories of environmental and social data to be integrated into MRIO modelling (to increase coverage and allow impact assessment of environmental and social issues)
• Combination and/or integration of different models, such as MRIO modelling, computable general equilibrium (CGE) models, system dynamics/integrated assessment models, or other models to enable prospective, dynamic environmental footprinting 
• Integration of future scenarios into MRIO/CGE models, involving changes in the economic structure, eco-efficiencies and final demand, such as mass uptake of sufficiency lifestyles 
• Hybridization of process-based LCA with input-output tables
• Applications of MRIO modelling to perform global, national and sector footprinting
• Linking the environmental data of MRIO/CGE models to indicators of planetary and regional boundaries for absolute environmental sustainability assessment

You will also have the opportunity to collaborate with the DTU Centre for Absolute Sustainability and the DTU USEtox Research Centre, co-hosted/hosted at DTU.

We seek candidates with a potential for creative and independent research, willingness to collaborate and interact with other researchers, the ability to teach sustainability assessment related courses and to disseminate research in seminars, conferences and in the classroom.

As part of your activities, you are expected to:

• Conduct excellent research and developing the field within the above-mentioned research areas
• Attract external excellence and strategic funding in your research field
• Build collaborations on developing technologies for sustainable transition with academics within and outside DTU, and with private and public sector experts
• Engage actively in international network activities (e.g. UN Environment, Life Cycle Initiative)
• Teach in university courses and supervise students in their bachelor and master thesis projects

The position requires a set of interdisciplinary academic expertise along with technical and training skills to establish new research areas within hybrid input-output and dynamic systems assessment.

You are additionally expected to:

• Enjoy teaching at bachelor and master levels and be eager to develop your skills towards effective teaching in sustainability assessment for engineers.
• Bring strong expertise and an adequate track record in one or more of the research topics listed above
• Motivate colleagues, peers, and students to give the very best and create an interdisciplinary atmosphere to achieve ambitious goals.
• Be a team player in the research group and contribute to its further development.

If selected, you will be expected to develop academic visibility, and over time establish national and international research leadership within your field.

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 expec