Associate Professor or DTU Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Formal Methods

Do you believe that formal methods are crucial to ensure high quality in software systems? Do you want to establish your career as a computer scientist in this area? Do you want to educate new generations of computer scientists and engineers in this area? 

You might find your place as a new Associate Professor or Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the Software Systems Engineering Section at DTU Compute. We are looking for new colleagues to join our vision of a digital society supported by software systems that are built, assessed and improved according to solid scientific foundations, engineering principles and societal values. Formal methods are central in our research and teaching activities.

Responsibilities 

• You will be conducting scientific research at the international level, publishing your results in highly reputed conferences and journals.
• You will be seeking opportunities to lead and participate in collaborative, funded research projects with academia and/or industry.
• You will take part in the development of our research-based teaching portfolio at the bachelor, master, and PhD levels.
• You will be responsible for the teaching of courses. DTU employs two working languages: Danish and English. Master and PhD courses are taught in English, while bachelor courses are taught in Danish and in English.  You are expected to be fluent in at least one of these languages, and in time are expected to master both.
• You will contribute to the culture of collaboration at the department, and you will participate actively in joint activities aimed at developing the department and the section. 

Qualifications 

• You are an active researcher both on the foundational side and on the application side of formal methods, witnessed by a publication record at the international level.
• Your research focuses on quality aspects of software systems such as correctness, safety, security, performance and/or dependability.
• You are recognized by the international research community as an expert in your field.
• You are an expert in one or more of the following areas:
  • Quantitative / probabilistic aspects of formal methods
  • Quantitative / probabilistic aspects of programming languages
  • Program verification
• You are genuinely curious about other people's research activities, and you like to explore research collaborations with colleagues inside and outside your network. 

As a formal qualification you must hold a PhD degree (or equivalent). If you are applying for the associate professor position you should also have academic qualifications equivalent to those obtained by holding an assistant professorship and documented didactic/pedagogic training. 

Further information

Further information may be obtained from Head of Section Alberto Lluch Lafuente (albl@dtu.dk). You are welcome to contact him before submitting the formal application. 

You can read more about DTU Compute’s section for Software Systems Engineering here and about DTU Compute at www.compute.dtu.dk. 

If you are applying from abroad, you may find useful information on working in Denmark and at DTU at DTU – Moving to Denmark. 

Application procedure

Please submit your online application no later than Wednesday, 15 May 2024 (23:59 Danish time). 

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