Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Additive Manufacturing for a Sustainable Built Environment

DTU Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Additive Manufacturing for a Sustainable Built Environment 

Are you a passionate researcher eager to help transform construction towards sustainability? Join us at DTU Engineering Technology, where we rethink how the built environment is designed and delivered. As part of our Sustainable Construction Processes section and the newly launched CEBE Program, you will drive innovation in additive manufacturing and 3D concrete printing, shaping future construction processes while advancing your career within an internationally oriented Tenure Track programme that supports your ambitions, collaboration, and academic independence.

Responsibilities and qualifications

Your primary tasks will be to:

• Conduct research that advances one or more of our three programme areas:
  • Major projects: Approaches to governing, planning, and delivering large, complex construction and infrastructure projects.
  • Scaling Sustainability: Development of circular, regenerative, and resource‑efficient construction processes grounded in LCA, planetary boundaries, and absolute sustainability.
  • Emerging technologies: Exploration and implementation of technologies such as VDC, digital twins, automation, AI, 3D printing, digital fabrication and data‑driven workflows to enable sustainable construction.
• Run the CEBE research project “Optimising 3D printing of buildings and infrastructures using secondary materials” with the aim of integrating secondary materials in 3D Concrete Printing (3DCP) at scale to minimise the environmental impact of construction.
• Contribute to development of activities on Additive Manufacturing in Construction across DTU and our national and international partners
• Dissemination of your research through publications in “top-ranked journals of the field” and attendance at conferences.
• Develop externally funded research projects with academic, industry, and public partners.
• Teach and develop relevant courses and supervise interdisciplinary student projects (Beng, BSc, MSc, PhD)
• Contribute to industry collaboration, research-based consultancy, and dissemination of insights for a more sustainable construction sector.
• Support the department’s DesignBuildLab in running and developing the relevant equipment for 3D concrete printing. 

We imagine that you have experience or knowledge in:

• Emerging technologies within 3D Concrete Printing, Additive Manufacturing, Digital Fabrication and Computational Design, 
• Sustainability approaches including circular economy, LCA, planetary boundaries, and absolute sustainability frameworks.
• Teaching and supervising engineering students, ideally in interdisciplinary or applied settings.
• Administrating relevant Lab equipment, materials and infrastructure.

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 formal qualification you must hold a PhD degree (or equivalent).

Application procedure 

Your complete online application must be submitted no later than 5 May 2026 (23:59 Danish time). 

To view the full announcement and to apply: click Apply button above. 

Advert information