Associate Professor or DTU Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Sustainable Travel Behaviour

DTU Management is looking for an Associate Professor or Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Sustainable Travel Behaviour to join our Transportation Science Division. In this position, you will contribute to research and teaching within travel behaviour and sustainable mobility and become part of an internationally recognized research environment with strong links to policymakers, public authorities, and industry.

The position offers a unique platform to conduct pioneering research in Sustainable Travel Behaviour, connected to DTU’s broader ecosystem of technological knowledge and innovation within the transportation sector.

The Transportation Division is an internationally recognized research environment with strong expertise in transport and mobility. Our interdisciplinary team brings together researchers from fields such as engineering, economics, psychology, data science, computer science, mathematics, and statistics.

We deliver ground-breaking fundamental research as well as research-based insights and tools for policymakers and industry. We collaborate closely with research communities in Denmark and abroad, and with Danish authorities. This includes a large on-going contract with the Ministry of Transport, under which we provide policy support to solve the great challenges in the transport sector. This includes responsibility for the national travel survey.

Human behaviour and its underlying drivers are embedded throughout our research on transport systems and mobility. Our research creates a foundation for policy support related to key challenges in the sector, such as the green transition, mobility for all user groups, congestion and pressured land use both in large cities and rural settings; equity, safety, and risk; and derived negative externalities of transport.

The overarching focus of the position is understanding human mobility and sustainable travel behaviour when planning transportation systems. This should also be seen in a broader context understanding how urban and rural surroundings influence travel behaviour and based upon this formulating policies and regulations for more sustainable mobility.

What we offer

We offer an international research environment, with a collegial, team-oriented environment in an elite university based in Greater Copenhagen. We have good opportunities for collaboration, supervision and co-supervision of graduate students and attractive teaching conditions. 

Denmark offers abundant funding opportunities for leading edge research from its many private and public research foundations in addition to the EU funding schemes. To support the obtaining of funding, DTU and the department provide highly specialized and individual funding support and guidance depending on your needs and where you are in your career. 

Furthermore, Denmark is one of the countries in the world with the highest degree of digitalization, and hence researchers have access to unique longitudinal datasets on households, companies, transport behaviour, land use, etc. DTU has a close collaboration with public authorities, which secures both impacts of research and access to surveys, experimental and register data. 

The position is full-time and based at DTU Lyngby campus, just north of Copenhagen. Copenhagen is renowned around the world for its relaxed atmosphere, fantastic restaurants, festivities and high quality of life, being number one on the 2025 Global City quality of life index.
Application procedure

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Application deadline: 31 October 2026

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