Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Systems Engineering of the 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, you will drive innovation in systems engineering, sustainability, and digital technologies—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: Systems engineering 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 BIM, VDC, digital twins, automation, AI, and data‑driven workflows to enable sustainable construction.
• Develop externally funded research projects with academic, industry, and public partners.
• Dissemination of your research through publications in “top-ranked journals of the field” and attendance at conferences.
• Teach and develop courses—including teaching in Danish the course Digital Modeling and Drawing – Technical Communication.
• Supervise interdisciplinary student projects with particular focus on Danish construction engineering solutions (Beng, BSc, MSc, PhD).
• Contribute to industry collaboration, research-based consultancy, and dissemination of insights for a more sustainable construction sector.

We imagine that you have experience or knowledge in:

• Systems thinking and systems engineering in relation to construction and the built environment.
• Sustainability approaches including circular economy, LCA, planetary boundaries, and absolute sustainability frameworks.
• Digital technologies relevant to construction—e.g., digital twins, BIM, VDC, automation, AI.
• Design and architecture within planetary boundaries, including material‑efficient design and digital design methods.
• Teaching and supervising engineering students, ideally in interdisciplinary or applied settings.

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).

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

Your complete online application must be submitted no later than 15 May 2026 (23:59 Danish time). 

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