[ES_JOBS_NET] Tenure Track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor in Petrology, Aarhus University, Denmark

Tue Jun 6 02:00:48 MDT 2023

The Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University, Denmark invites applications for a position at the Assistant Professor or Associate Professor level in Petrology. We seek an innovative and visionary geoscientist trained in petrology. Expertise in one or more of the following fields is preferred: metamorphic petrology, ore petrology, mineralogy. We are looking for applicants complementing the existing expertise at the Department in e.g. magmatic petrology, geochemistry, geophysics, sedimentology and computational geoscience.

Qualifications
The successful candidate will hold a Ph.D. in a relevant natural science discipline, have a strong international research standing and a broad multidisciplinary research network. The scientific profile must be reflected in relevant publications in international peer-reviewed journals. Proven ability to attract external research funding and documented teaching skills are required. The successful candidate is expected to develop a vigorous research program involving graduate and undergraduate students, attract funding from national and/or international sources and expand the national and international research profile of the Department. The appointee will teach courses at the B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. levels in their field of expertise and related subjects.

The successful candidate will need to demonstrate the potential to be a strong role model for the values of equality, diversity and inclusion. It is expected that the appointee will acquire, within three years, proficiency in Danish sufficient for teaching in bachelor programs and for participation in departmental and university administration.

Department of Geoscience
The Department of Geoscience<https://geo.au.dk/en/> currently employs about 110 staff including faculty, externally funded researchers, post-docs, Ph.D. students, and administrative and technical personnel. We have a strong research profile spanning a broad range of geological and geophysical disciplines, including basic and applied aspects of the Earth surface systems (hydrogeology, hydrogeophysics, Quaternary studies, palaeoceanography, sedimentology, stratigraphy, geochronology, organic petrology) as well as the deep interior of the Earth (petrology, geochemistry, solid-earth geophysics, structural geology, basin modelling). The Department is well equipped for petrological research and teaching including geochemical facilities (ICPMS, MC-ICPMS, Laser ablation, class 100 metal-free cleanlab, SEM, micro-XRF, XRD). We also host a national infrastructure pool of ocean bottom and land seismic stations (DanSeis).

About us
The place of work is the Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University. The beautiful Aarhus University campus is located close to the downtown of Aarhus, the second largest city in Denmark with about 400 000 inhabitants. Aarhus has a lively and charming downtown close to the Aarhus Bay at the Baltic Sea. In Denmark access to schools, higher education, and health care is free. Generous parental agreements are available. Aarhus University offers a broad variety of services for international researchers and accompanying families, including relocation service and career counselling to expat partners. Ensuring gender balance at Department of Geoscience is a high priority for Aarhus University, and we particularly encourage women to apply. No candidate will be given preferential treatment, and all applicants will be assessed on the basis of their qualifications for the position in question.

The expected appointment is January 1, 2024 or at the nearest possible date.

Place of work and area of employment
The place of work will be Høegh-Guldbergs Gade 2, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark

Further information
Further information can be obtained from the Head of Department Professor Jan A. Piotrowski, Department of Geoscience, Høegh-Guldbergs Gade 2, DK-8000 Aarhus C, by e-mail: jan.piotrowski at geo.au.dk<mailto:jan.piotrowski at geo.au.dk> or phone: +45 87156409.

Natural Sciences Tenure Track
Aarhus University offers talented scientists from around the world attractive career perspectives via the Natural Sciences Tenure Track Programme. Highly qualified candidates are appointed as Assistant Professors for a period of six years with the prospect of performance- based advancement to a tenured Associate Professorship position.

The aim of the Natural Sciences Tenure Track Programme is to:

  *   attract outstanding talented individuals that are competitive at an international level
  *   to promote the early development of independent research success early in the career of scientists
  *   to create transparency in the academic career path

As part of the tenure track position, the candidate is offered:

  *   access to research infrastructure
  *   capability development, including postgraduate teacher training
  *   a mentoring programme
  *   support to develop scientific networks and to secure interdisciplinary research at the highest level

As part of the Aarhus University Tenure Track Programme, the University carries out a mid-way evaluation to review the progress of the tenure track candidate after three years, according to the same criteria used in the final tenure review. The final tenure review is conducted after five and a half years. If the review is positive, the candidate will be offered a tenured position as Associate Professor at Aarhus University. In exceptional cases, Aarhus University can offer particularly talented Associate Professors to be admitted to a promotion program to Professor without an open advertisement. To be nominated for the promotion program, the Associate Professor must be assessed within a few years of focused career advancement as able to obtain qualifications corresponding to a professorship appointment in an open call.

Please refer to the tenure track guidelines <https://nat.au.dk/fileadmin/nat.au.dk/HR/Vejledninger_Nat_ENG/Tenure_Track_-_Engelsk__Nat_.pdf> for the tenure review criteria and for the tenure review process.

Application procedure
Shortlisting is used. This means that after the deadline for applications – and with the assistance from the assessment committee chairman, and the assessment committee if necessary, – the head of department selects the candidates to be evaluated. The selection is made on the basis of an assessment of who of the candidates are most relevant considering the requirements of the advertisement. All applicants will be notified within 6 weeks whether or not their applications have been sent to an expert assessment committee for evaluation. The selected applicants will be informed about the composition of the committee and will receive their assessment. Once the recruitment process is completed a final letter of rejection is sent to the deselected applicants.

Letter of reference
If you want a referee to upload a letter of reference on your behalf, please state the referee’s contact information when you submit your application. We strongly recommend that you make an agreement with the person in question before you enter the referee’s contact information, and that you ensure that the referee has enough time to write the letter of reference before the application deadline. Unfortunately, it is not possible to ensure that letters of reference received after the application deadline will be taken into consideration.

Formalities and salary range
Natural Sciences refers to the Ministerial Order on the Appointment of Academic Staff at Danish Universities under the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation.<https://international.au.dk/fileadmin/Bekendtgoerelse_nr__242_af_a3__MARTS_2012_-_ENGELSK_UDGAVE.pdf>

The application must be in English and include a curriculum vitae, degree certificate, a complete list of publications, a statement of future research plans and information about research activities, teaching portfolio and verified information on previous teaching experience (if any). Guidelines for applicants can be found here.<https://nat.au.dk/en/about-the-faculty/vacant-positions-and-career/guidelines-and-rules/>

Appointment shall be in accordance with the collective labour agreement between the Danish Ministry of Taxation and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations. Further information on qualification requirements and job content may be found in the Memorandum on Job Structure for Academic Staff at Danish Universities<https://medarbejdere.au.dk/fileadmin/www.medarbejdere.au.dk/hr/Rekruttering/Onboarding/Ministerial_Order_no._1443_of_11_December_2019_on_Job_Structure_for_Academic_Staff_at_Universities.pdf>.

Salary depends on seniority as agreed between the Danish Ministry of Taxation and the Confederation of Professional Associations.

Aarhus University’s ambition is to be an attractive and inspiring workplace for all and to foster a culture in which each individual has opportunities to thrive, achieve and develop. We view equality and diversity as assets, and we welcome all applicants.

Research activities will be evaluated in relation to actual research time. Thus, we encourage applicants to specify periods of leave without research activities, in order to be able to subtract these periods from the span of the scientific career during the evaluation of scientific productivity.

Aarhus University offers a broad variety of services for international researchers and accompanying families, including relocation service and career counselling to expat partners. Read more here<https://internationalstaff.au.dk/relocationservice/>. Please find more information about entering and working in Denmark here<http://international.au.dk/research/>.

The application must be submitted via Aarhus University’s recruitment system, which can be accessed under the job advertisement on Aarhus University's website, and received by September 1, 2023.

Aarhus University

Aarhus University is an academically diverse and research-intensive university with a strong commitment to high-quality research and education and the development of society nationally and globally. The university offers an inspiring research and teaching environment to its 38,000 students (FTEs) and 8,300 employees, and has an annual revenues of EUR 935 million. Learn more at www.international.au.dk/<http://www.international.au.dk/>

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