Professor in biomedical engineering

The Department of biomedical engineering is conducting research, graduate and undergraduate education mainly at the Institute of technology. The Department is a national center for research and education within biomedical engineering with an international recognition. The research is based on needs within Health Care and is performed in close collaboration with medical technology industry and medical departments.

Duties
This appointment as Professor involves research, teaching, and administrative duties. It is also the responsibility of the holder of the appointment to follow the development within one's own research area as well as societal developments that are of relevance to the research and teaching.
The holder of the appointment as Professor shall mainly conduct research but also participate in teaching on the undergraduate, advanced and reserach levels at Linköping University. The position will be based within an existing research group at the Department or will form a new research group.

Qualifications
In order to be qualified for the appointment as Professor in research areas the applicant is required to prove both scientific and pedagogical skills.

Grounds for assessment
The extent of proficiency that is required for the appointment as Professor make up the grounds for the assessment of the applicants. For this position scientific proficiency will be given major impact in the assessment.

Appointing program
An appointing program has been established for guidance when assessing applicants for the position. The program has agreed on the following requirements expected of, and duties attached to, the holder of the appointment: The field of Biomedical Engineering is a technical discipline for solving medical problems. Technical, Physics and Mathematics methods are used to describe the human physiological function and to develop new methods for diagnostics, monitoring and therapy within Health Care. Biomedical Engineering is characterized by the application of other technical scientific fields. Several other scientific fields such as automatic control, Signal processing, Robotics, Mechanics, Material science, Biotechnology and Image processing, Computer graphics and human-machine interaction mention in their strategies biomedical engineering applications as an emerging field. Biomedical engineering is, however, an established scientific field since decades. It is cross-disciplinary by covering both technology and medicine. Biomedical engineering has its main connection to technology but the field demands relevant knowledge within medicine. This specifically characterizes biomedical engineering. Other technical fields related to biomedical engineering, but lacking the medical focus, should not be classified as biomedical engineering. Similarly, medical fields without technical depth do not belong to biomedical engineering.
The holder of the position shall have an undergraduate engineering exam and is working within biomedical engineering as defined above. The intended research can complement or strengthen existing activities at the Department but also form a new field.

The scientific proficiency of the applicant shall be given major merit. The ability to attract external funding is equally important as scientific publications.

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