Professor/Head of Subject of Applied Geochemistry

Professor/Head of Subject of Applied Geochemistry

LTU - Lulea University of Technology

Lulea, Sweden

Subject description

Applied Geochemistry is concerned with studies into the occurrence and mobility of the elements in rocks, soil, and water, focusing on methods to prevent or reduce the environmental impact of metal extraction and infrastructure development.

Duties

The position as Professor/Head of subject is a leadership role with overall responsibility for leading and developing the subject including research, postgraduate education as well as education at undergraduate and graduate level. For a professor, it also includes following the international development of the subject, supervising doctoral students and assisting with teaching. In addition, the assignment is to further develop collaboration within the department and with other subjects at the university, and to strengthen the link with relevant national and international research environments.

The Head of subject has a particular responsibility for attracting external funding and securing funding for his/her own research as well as for promoting the academic environment at large. An important task for the Head of subject is to build a strong research subject where doctoral students, staff and students grow and develop. The position of Professor as well as Head of subject is a permanent position.

Qualifications

Qualified for an employment as a professor is someone who has demonstrated both research expertise and teaching expertise. As much attention must be given to the assessment of teaching expertise as to the assessment of research expertise.

In order to meet the requirements for an employment as a professor, the applicant:

• must be prominent within their subject area and there present scientific activities of high international standards demonstrating a clear progress in terms of quality;
• must have produced a total scientific output that must be equivalent, in terms of quantity, to at least three doctoral theses including the doctoral thesis;
• must demonstrate academic leadership through, among other things:
  • experience of research-related commissions of trust such as subject specialist, external reviewer and/or member of an examining committee;
  • experience of leading research projects;
  • experience of applying for and being granted, as the main applicant and in competition, external funding for research projects;
  • experience of internal missions at the University;
  • experience of educational leadership.
• must have experience of supervising doctoral students and, unless there are exceptional reasons, must have been the principal supervisor for at least one doctoral student for the entire period from admission to doctoral degree;
• must demonstrate pedagogical expertise through proven experience, teaching expertise and teaching development;
• must demonstrate the ability to collaborate with the wider community by means of, among other things:
  • making new knowledge available to the wider community;
  • incorporating societal needs into educational and/or research contexts.

In addition to the qualification requirements for professors, emphasis must be placed on leadership skills when recruiting a professor/head of subject.

These skills are demonstrated in, among others:

• experience of line management responsibility and staff development;
• self-knowledge and capacity to reflect on their own leadership experience;
• experience of budget responsibility or other financial responsibilities.

Assessment criteria

The following assessment criteria are applied for the position:

• research expertise;
• teaching expertise;
• ability to lead and develop operations;
• other assessment criteria.

Other assessment criteria, weighted equally:

• good contacts with international research networks engaged in mining-related environmental research or other applied geochemical research;
• ability to obtain external research and development funding;
• have fluent knowledge of English in speech and writing;
• contacts with industry and students requires that non-Swedish speaking applicants acquire a good knowledge of Swedish in speech and writing within 1–2 years after employment;
• ability to interact internally within the university and with the surrounding community.