Associate / Assistant Professor in Sustainable Production and Supply Chains

Associate Professor or DTU Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Sustainable Production and Supply Chains

Do you want to take part in the green transition and shape the future in production and supply chains? Do you have a passion for sustainability, innovation and engineering education? 

We invite you to join our section “Production, Transportation and Planning”, where you will have colleagues with a mix of research and industry experience. Our current team of researchers within production and supply chains work with technology implementation, digitalization and automation, LEAN manufacturing, quality management, life cycle assessment, circular supply chains, and freight transportation.

You will complement this team with your expertise in sustainable production and supply chains. We are particularly interested in researching the intersections between our team members’ research areas, and the role of new technologies for creating sustainable production and supply chains. You will contribute to the section’s research within the following areas:

• The impact of production companies on climate and nature, including GHG emissions, pollution, land use, biodiversity, and resource consumption
• Managing, controlling, reporting and improving ESG performance, including the legislative context for industry (e.g. EU regulations and the three scopes in the GHG protocol)
• The role and impact of technology in the sustainable development of industry
• Risks and opportunities arising from changes in climate, resource scarcity and environmental degradation

Our section is diverse in culture, gender, nationalities, personality types, and career paths. We enjoy collegial idea generation, feedback and cooperation in an informal, safe and fun working environment. We are all motivated by contributing to a sustainable, livable future. If you have the same motivation, you will fit perfectly with our team.

Responsibilities and qualifications 

Your overall focus will be to strengthen our teaching and research in the field of Sustainable Production and Supply Chains. We expect you to take the lead in driving the academic agenda and delivering impact to society and our common future. To do so, you will:

• Develop the research field by defining ideas and concepts for future projects
• Write and collaborate on research proposals, incl. PhD projects
• Conduct and (in time) lead research projects with partners across the globe
• If associate professor, supervise PhDs; if assistant professor, co-supervise PhDs
• Teach and supervise in engineering education and continuing education
• Apply both qualitative and quantitative methods

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 expected to master both.

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.

You will be assessed against the responsibilities and qualifications stated above and the following general criteria:

• Experience and quality of teaching 
• Research experience 
• Research vision and potential
• International impact and experience 
• Societal impact
• Innovativeness, including commercialization and collaboration with industry
• Leadership, collaboration, and interdisciplinary skills
• Communication skills

Application procedure

Please submit your online application no later than 20 August 2025 (23:59 Danish time). 

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