Assistant Professor transforming our built environment

At Chalmers University of Technology, our inspiring, world class research environments tackle pressing scientific and societal challenges. Through our strong collaborative tradition of combining expertise from different disciplines, we are especially equipped to contribute to complex needs of our society and a sustainable future.

We seek creative individuals to join Chalmers as tenure-track Assistant Professors and accelerate our quest for new knowledge and sustainability. You are invited to apply and propose your research ideas and to describe your plans to reach your goals and ambitions to make a difference. A four-year tenure track position is provided with a generous start-up package, relocation support, mentoring, and leadership training to further your development as an outstanding research leader. You will be employed by the department of your choice, while also finding collaborations and growing networks across departments and in the wider society.

We look for candidates that complement rather than duplicate our existing competences and that have an ambition to interact with our existing research groups. We value scientific depth and inventiveness, a collaborative spirit, societal engagement as well as leadership and entrepreneurial skills. Our aim is to actively improve the gender balance in our faculty. We therefore strongly encourage female applicants.

Read more about these broad thematic recruitments here.

Development Towards Sustainable Cities
When addressing the challenges related to a sustainable transformation of our societies, the role of the built environment is of highest importance. All scales and urban systems need to be addressed, as they are functionally coupled to and impact each other – from global, regional, urban, and rural landscapes to infrastructure, buildings, public spaces, material detailing, and people – with a diversity of perspectives and approaches. To implement new knowledge and solutions in practice, it is crucial to strengthen academic research supporting development towards sustainable cities. The challenges call for interdisciplinary approaches including a diversity of subjects, where perspectives from the social sciences and humanities are as important as the discussion on necessary technological and ecological transformations towards a more sustainable path. There is also an urgent need for transdisciplinary and collaborative approaches to integrate and make use of different kinds of knowledge, from various disciplines, professions, and civil society.

With this call, Chalmers aims at further strengthening its research and expertise on the development of sustainable built environments. The academic field is broad, and possible, but not exclusive, topics for research can include socio-spatial transformations and change processes, urbanization processes, mobility and urban transport, segregation, governance and organization, critical social/environmental perspectives on architecture and the built environment, environmental systems analysis, and climate change mitigation. Applicants are expected to have research experience related to the built environment and to have strong expertise within at least one specialized field, either in the social sciences, humanities, or engineering sciences. A successful candidate should have an openness towards connecting to other academic fields than their own and applying inter- and transdisciplinary approaches.

Major responsibilities
As an Assistant Professor, you will conduct and lead research, and develop into an independent principal investigator, in line with the intentions described in your application. Together with the rest of the faculty, you will contribute to teaching and developing our educational curriculum, to the academic culture, and participate in departmental and university-wide activities. You are expected to supervise undergraduate and graduate students, and to apply for external funding to further accelerate your research. As an employee at Chalmers, you are encouraged to actively contribute to our work within the field of equality and diversity, for example through the GENIE Initiative on gender equality for excellence.

Position summary
The appointment as Assistant Professor is a four-year entry-level faculty position with tenure track, whereby you will acquire both pedagogical and research qualifications. The aim is to achieve the level of Associate Professor within four years and if successful you will be offered a permanent faculty position at Chalmers.

Qualifications for the position
You have:
• A doctoral degree in a relevant field, not older than 7 years prior to the application deadline of 31 January 2022.**
• Performed research that has resulted in publications and presentations in relevant and respected venues for your field.
• Shown your ability to create national and international networks within your subject area, for example through co-authored publications.
• Experience of applying for research funding.
• Post-doctoral experience or similar, preferably performed in an environment other than where you did your doctoral studies.
• Demonstrated your pedagogical interest and potential
• Worked towards creating a good internal working environment at your workplace.
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal, in English.

We value highly that you have shared your research with society.

**The date shown in your doctoral degree certificate is the date we use, as this is the date you have met all requirements for the doctoral degree. Exceptions will be made for longer periods of verified leave, such as parental leave, military leave and sick leave.

Application procedure
The application should be marked with Ref 20210540  and written in English.

Learn more and apply on Chalmers website: https://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/Working-at-Chalmers/Vacancies/Pages/default.aspx?rmpage=job&rmjob=9986&rmlang=UK

Application deadline: 31 January, 2022

*** Chalmers declines to consider all offers of further announcement publishing or other types of support for the recruiting process in connection with this position. ***