Professor/Reader in Manufacturing Automation (600440)

FTE: 1.0

Term: Open-ended

We are the University of Strathclyde. Our vision is innovative and groundbreaking, placing us amongst the world’s leading international technological universities. We are dynamic and passionate about solving the challenges facing society and industry through our cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary research, education and knowledge-exchange with global partners.  The University is situated in the heart of Glasgow, with an international community including 22,000 students and more than 3,000 staff from 100 countries. Strathclyde is ‘the place of useful learning’ and is recognised internationally for its close working relationships with businesses and its partnerships with industry, government and industry. The University is focused on recruiting the best academic talent to enhance both research intensity and leadership in areas of strategic importance.

The Department of Design, Manufacturing and Engineering Management (DMEM) is an internationally leading department, Delivering Total Engineering for responsible and sustainable futures. We seek to appoint a Professor/Reader in Manufacturing Automation.  This post is envisaged to start as soon as possible and is part of a wider talent and thought leader recruitment strategy.  DMEM brings together expertise in creative- and engineering design, manufacturing and engineering operations management. Our research centres and groups focus on through-life product- and system development, with core research themes spanning across the scientific disciplines being creativity and innovation, materials exploration, sustainability and technology.  We are proud of our substantial and well-established collaborations with academic and industrial partners throughout the world. With more than 150 staff including the technical specialist centres, more than 100 Postgraduate Research (PGR) students both PhD and EngD/Industrial Doctorates, and more than 650 students from over 30 nations, we are a vibrant, international community.

Are you passionate about working on global challenge and societal transitions, including manufacturing, space, or agri-food systems, industrial and healthcare logistics, or smart construction as it relates to manufacturing? And are you thriving on theory-driven and empirically-validated research excellence, learning and teaching with and for engineering leaders of the future? We’d love to hear from you with and your research interests, particularly in Net Zero and regeneration of sustainable design and manufacturing/production systems and the industrial ecology more widely.  Come join us with your passion for tackling societal challenges and your disciplinary expertise esp. in sustainable futures.

This may include but not limited to Robotics, Autonomous Systems, Manufacturing Automation, and their applications to Smart Manufacturing, e.g., AI/Data-driven Manufacturing Processes and Control, Advanced Metrology and Inspection, Systems/Tools for Quality Control, Robotic Handling and Production Systems, Autonomous Devices/Systems, Human-Machine Interfaces, Highly Resilient and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems,  as well as IoT and Cloud-based Production Systems, Digital Factory, or Digital Supply Chain Management.

For the role you will have a good honours degree and PhD (or significant relevant experience) in a design and manufacturing related discipline. You will have research experience and interests consistent with the strategic direction of the Department, Faculty and University and you will have experience of research leadership, including support of senior researchers in a University or industrial environment and management of research teams/projects/programmes. 

To find out more about the Department visit our website: https://www.dmem.strath.ac.uk.

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