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stillingsbetegnelse:
Assistant and associate professor positions in health informatics and technology

jobbeskrivelse:

The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, University of Southern Denmark (SDU) in Odense invites applications for open positions in health informatics and technology, at the levels of associate professor and assistant professor. The starting date for the positions is as soon as possible in 2019, and it will be agreed with the successful candidate.

SDU Health Informatics and Technology (HIT) strive to develop novel and ready to deploy technical solutions in a transdisciplinary manner. SDU HIT has a large portfolio of transdisciplinary projects involving numerous partners from healthcare, academia, industry and network organizations.

SDU HIT possess various competences including embedded systems, participatory design, acoustics, innovation management, software engineering, and data analytics. These competences are currently being deployed in areas such as training robots, audiology, telemedicine/eHealth/mHealth, clinical decision support, and healthcare ecosystem modeling.

We are seeking candidates that can strengthen (and augment) the ongoing research and build bridges between the groups’ two complementary and tightly connected areas: health technology and health informatics.

Candidates are required to have a proven research record within health informatics and technology related to at least one of the following fields:

• Assistive technology (embedded systems; robotics; sensors; cyber-physical systems)
• Data science (health data and medical image analysis)
• Software engineering (healthcare IT systems, standards, ontologies, and platforms; participatory design; technology implementation and evaluation)

Commensurate with the seniority of the position applied for, the candidates must have:

• An outstanding research and publication record
• Extensive experience with industrial collaboration
• Strong track record of attracting research funding

All candidates must have a PhD in a relevant discipline.

The successful candidates are expected to develop and engage in a vigorous research program, collaborate with other faculty units on joint research projects, and actively participate in attracting external research funding in close collaboration with colleagues and management.

The successful applicants will be expected to provide outstanding education, supervise students and, depending on level, develop junior staff and faculty units.

The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute is an internationally recognized research department with strong research units in robotics, drones, artificial intelligence, software engineering, energy informatics, and health informatics and technology. 

Denmark is known to be a great place to live and work. There is a high quality of life in and around Odense, and at SDU we value a well-functioning work-life balance. More information about the benefits may be found here.

Contact information Further information is available from Head of Center, Professor Uffe Kock Wiil, phone: +45 60113565, email: ukwiil (at) mmmi.sdu.dk.

Requirements for the position
Employment as an assistant professor and associate professor requires scientific qualifications at PhD level within a discipline relevant for the position and will be expected to teach and instruct students who participate in bachelor and/or master courses.
 
Applications will be assessed by an expert committee. The committee may request additional information, and if so, it is the responsibility of the applicant to provide the necessary material. Applicants will be informed of their assessment by the Faculty.

As part of the overall assessment of the applicant’s qualifications, an interview and tests may be applied, only for applicants assessed qualified.

Shortlisting may be used in the assessment process. Shortlisted applicants will be assessed by an assessment panel.

Conditions of employment
The successful applicant will be employed in accordance with the agreement between the Ministry of Finance and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations.

The assistant professorship is a 3-year temporary position. The employment will cease without further notice at the end of the period.

The associate professorship is a permanent position with obligation to research and teaching.

Application
Your application must be uploaded through the link “Apply Online” - visible at https://www.sdu.dk/da/service/ledige_stillinger/1028370 . Applications submitted by other means or after the deadline will not be taken into account. 

The application has to state the desired type of position.

Attached files must be in Adobe PDF or Word format. All pdf-files must be unlocked and allow binding and may not be password protected.

In case you have more than one file per field you need to combine the pdf-files into a single file, as each field handles only one file.

Each box can only contain a single file of max. 10 Mb.

Please read guidelines for applicants.

The application including all documents must be in English.

The application must include - remember to state the desired type of position:

• Cover letter including statement of motivation
• Detailed Curriculum Vitae
• Certificates/Diplomas (MSc and PhD) - Danish or English transcripts
• Teaching portfolio as documentation for teaching experiences, supervision qualifications and developing educational programmes, please attach as Teaching portfolio.  
• List of publications indicating the publications attached 
• Examples of the most relevant publications for the position. Please attach one pdf-file for each publication
• Co-author statements for included publications
• Other relevant qualifications

The University wishes our staff to reflect the diversity of society and thus welcomes applications from all qualified candidates regardless of personal background.

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Arbejdsgiver Navn: Syddansk Universitet

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