Two Associate Professor positions within Life Cycle Engineering and Energy System Analysis

The Center of Life Cycle Engineering in the Department of Green Technology at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) invites applications for two Associate Professor positions: (1) One position within Life Cycle Engineering and (2) One position within Energy System Analysis. 

The targeted starting time of the positions is 01 July 2025, or as soon as possible thereafter.

The application deadline: 30 April 2025 at 11.59 PM/23.59 (CET/CEST).

Job Description

The candidates will be responsible for building up the area of quantitative sustainability assessment and energy system analysis. 

Successful candidates will drive internationally recognized research, work closely with industry, and are expected to attract competitive external research funding. The candidates will play a key role in providing outstanding education, supervising bachelor's and master’s students, and developing junior research staff.

We offer:

• A dynamic and international workplace with excellent facilities and strong collaborations with research organizations and industry.
• Continued education of members of staff
• Flexibility in planning working hours
• An attractive working environment and work-life balance prioritization

Qualifications:

We seek ambitious and collaborative candidates with qualifications at the level of associate professor and an excellent track record of achievements. Applicants for both position areas must have:

• The candidates must have a PhD degree and have a least 3 years’ experience as assistant professor.
• The candidates should be able to teach courses related to quantitative sustainability, life cycle assessment, techno-economic assessment, renewable hydrocarbons, and energy system design and analysis.
• The candidates should have established research portfolio, including Web of Sciences publications in the field of sustainability, energy systems and green hydrogen and power-to-x technologies.
• The candidates need to show substantial teaching and supervision experience in several subjects.
• The candidates preferably should be able to document experience with obtaining external research funding.
• Formal training in pedagogics at university level and documented pedagogical skills.
• Experience in research communication, outreach, and dissemination to a wider public
• The ability to strengthen national and international collaboration within the research area.
• Strong interpersonal skills.

The qualifications for applying for the position within Life Cycle Engineering also requires: 

• Dynamic system analysis and Life cycle assessment
• Future scenario modeling
• Early environmental sustainability guidance for low TRL technologies
• Socio-economic sustainability assessment
• Tools and methods development for dynamic sustainability assessment
• Framework development for Safe and Sustainable by Desing (SSbD) principles with Agrochemical industry and biorefineries
• Applying SSbD aligned sustainability assessment
• Developing advanced tools facilitating SSbD aligned sustainability assessment 

The qualifications for applying for the position within Energy System Analysis also requires:

• Strong background in green hydrogen and downstream power-to-x processes
• Energy system design and analysis both at component and system levels
• Renewable-driven carbon neutral energy systems
• System integration and sector coupling
• Role of power-to-x technologies in flexibility of energy systems
• Techno-economic assessment of energy systems
• Strategies for decarbonizing different sectors of energy systems
• Conventional and advanced exergy analysis of energy systems at component level

About the department and center:

The Department for Green Technology (IGT) at the Faculty of Engineering, SDU, is a highly interdisciplinary department equipped with state-of-the-art laboratories.

You will be part of a team of researchers working at the department supporting excellence within research and teaching.

We warmly invite all qualified candidates to apply. We are dedicated to embracing human diversity, believing that the key to achieving exceptional and outstanding research lies in fostering an inclusive community that welcomes individuals from all backgrounds.

Odense, where IGT is located, is an international and family-friendly city with a rich cultural life, situated on the fjord. It is about an hour from Copenhagen and has a direct train connection to Copenhagen’s international airport.

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