Postdoc in Resilient Production

Resilient Production
What does it take to make industry resilient and sustainable? Join Chalmers' Division of Production Systems for a Postdoc to change the way we think. This position is a great opportunity for a highly motivated candidate who has recently completed a PhD degree. You will join a professional, diverse, and friendly team of excellent researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, working on national and international top level research together with industry.

Your new team
Chalmers is a leading university in industrial digitalization for sustainable and competitive manufacturing. Chalmers' Division of Production Systems is a young and growing team of around 30 cross-disciplinary researchers, teachers, Postdocs, PhD candidates, and support staff. The Division has a good gender balance and high diversity.

We engage in research, education, and innovation; nationally and internationally. We collaborate closely with industry in design, deployment, operation, and maintenance of future industrial production systems. Our advanced research labs for industrial digitalization, e.g. Stena Industry Innovation Lab, enable deep involvement in international projects.

Production Systems is one of six divisions within the Department of Industrial and Materials Science (IMS). Other divisions are: Design & Human Factors; Product Development; Material & Computational Mechanics; Engineering Materials; Materials and Manufacture. Chalmers is a private university with strong entrepreneurial innovation and startup support.

Your responsibilities
Rapidly emerging environmental, geopolitical, and technical challenges radically increases needs for industrial resilience. As a Postdoc in our team, you will focus on Production Resilience and its impacts on environmental, social, and economic sustainability. You will work in close collaboration with industry, developing, theory, methods, and tools for future resilient production.

As a Chalmers Postdoc you are expected to continuously expand your network and field of expertise, in close collaboration with international research communities and the three research groups within the division. Our experienced research leaders and mentors will train you for a future research leadership position in academia or industry, in Sweden and internationally.

Your qualifications
We expect you to become a skilled, creative Postdoc with strong motivation; a cooperative mindset; analytical skills, communication skills; and a passion for combining scientific theory with application. You should be quality conscious, ethical, and have ambitions to take on responsibility, working independently and in collaboration with both academic and industrial partners towards set goals.
The position require full proficiency in English. You should acquire Swedish proficiency within 2 years. Chalmers provides English courses. Experience from multi-stakeholder interactions and industry experience are meritorious.

Mandatory qualifications

• A PhD degree in a relevant field of research.
• Your PhD thesis should be related to advanced industrial research and development and targeted towards multiple forms of sustainability, including methods for assessments in industry.

Meritorious qualifications


• Training and experience from resilience and sustainability, targeting manufacturing industry.
• Background and research experience within industrial, mechanical, energy, environmental, digital/electrical or similar engineering fields are prioritized.
• Documented experience from research projects performed in collaborative, multi-disciplinary teams.

Chalmers offer
Chalmers offers a cultivating and inspiring working environment in the coastal city of Gothenburg. 
Read more about working at Chalmers and our benefits for employees.
Chalmers aims to actively improve our gender balance. We work broadly with equality projects, for example the GENIE Initiative on gender equality for excellence. Equality and diversity are substantial foundations in all activities at Chalmers.

The application procedure

• The application should be marked with 20240318 and written in English.
• The application should be sent electronically and be attached as PDF-files, as below.
• Maximum size for each file is 40 MB.
• Please note that the system does not support Zip files.
• The applicant is responsible for ensuring that the submitted application is complete. Incomplete applications and applications sent by email will not be considered.

Please note:

We are looking for original, human researchers that can contribute to science. Do NOT use Generative AI tools like ChatGPT to create ANY part of you application.

CV
(Please name the document as: CV, Surname, Ref. number) including:
• CV, include complete list of publications
• Previous teaching and pedagogical experiences
• Two references that we can contact.

Personal letter
(Please name the document as: Personal letter, Family name, Ref. number)
1-3 pages where you:
• Introduce yourself
• Describe your previous research fields and main research results
• Describe your future goals and ideas for future research focus

Other documents
• Attested copies of completed education, grades and other certificates.

Application deadline: 2024-06-28


For questions, please contact
Professor Johan Stahre, johan.stahre@chalmers.se

Professor Björn Johansson, bjorn.johansson@chalmers.se


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


Chalmers University of Technology conducts research and education in engineering sciences, architecture, technology-related mathematical sciences, natural and nautical sciences, working in close collaboration with industry and society. The strategy for scientific excellence focuses on our six Areas of Advance; Energy, Health Engineering, Information and Communication Technology, Materials Science, Production and Transport. The aim is to make an active contribution to a sustainable future using the basic sciences as a foundation and innovation and entrepreneurship as the central driving forces. Chalmers has around 11,000 students and 3,000 employees. New knowledge and improved technology have characterised Chalmers since its foundation in 1829, completely in accordance with the will of William Chalmers and his motto: Avancez!