Full Professor (chair) in Acoustics

Application deadline: 2013-10-13

 

The division of Applied Acoustics at Chalmers is one of the leading acoustic laboratories in Europe. Its mission is to contribute to a sustainable built environment and infrastructure as well as to support European industry in the development of products and services with appropriate sound and vibration properties. Strong research areas are:
• Prediction and Design of Urban Sound Environments
• Rolling Noise (tyre/road and wheel/rail) and other aspects related to tyre/road interaction such as rolling resistance, wear and safety
• Vehicle Acoustics
• Human Perception of Sound and Vibration (primarily restoration and emotion experiences)
• Sound Design and Room Acoustics

The division has 9 faculty members and 12 PhD students.

The department is characterized by very good work environment where collaboration and good communication skills are very important. We place great emphasis on personal ability.

Major responsibilities
As full professor at Chalmers, you are expected to play a leading role in research and education in your subject area. Duties include performing your own research, teaching on undergraduate, master's and doctoral levels, supervising PhD students and taking part in leadership and administration of both research and other activities. Other important aspects of the position include providing information and communicating about research and current development in the subject area, planning research projects and cooperating within academia and with society at large.

The professorship in Acoustics covers the areas of sound and vibration quality, psychoacoustics and room acoustics. The applicant is expected to establish and lead a research group working inside these areas in order to reinforce and complement the activities at the division. Besides to perform and lead research a successful candidate is expected to develop and teach courses within our international Master’s program Sound and Vibration. One of the department’s missions is to play a leading role in some of the Areas of Advance at Chalmers: Built Environment and Transport. The division expects that the applicant will contribute to and advance our collaboration in these areas.

In detail this includes for instance:

To actively lead and develop teaching and research at both the departmental and research group levels.
To teach courses at all levels.
To be the main supervisor for doctoral students and also to be prepared to act as examiner.
To actively conduct and lead research as the leader of one’s own research group.
To promote this group as a strong complement to the already ongoing activities at the division. 
To effectively seek external research funding from multiple sources.
To participate in and promote exchange of knowledge with the international professional community.
To be a mentor and give younger faculty members support and feedback in teaching, research, research funding and outreach activities.
To participate in the leadership of the department and of Chalmers, including beneficial innovation, as well as internal and external committee work.
To advance interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary cooperation.

Position summary
Full-time permanent position.

Qualifications
A position at Chalmers as full professor requires scientific expertise on a very high level. You must have the ability to assume a leading role for research in your field. You must be a skilled educator and accustomed to teaching on different levels. For this reason, we place a great deal of emphasis on your pedagogical portfolio. The position requires a minimum of 15 higher education credits in teaching and learning in higher education or corresponding expertise. You have good leadership and cooperation skills. Since your own research and that of PhD students is primarily funded by external sources, we assume you can successfully apply for external funding. Experience from research and development in industry/the public sector and demonstrated innovation capacity are meritorious.

The applicant for the professorship in Acoustics has her/his main focus in one of the following areas:
• Sound and vibration quality
• Room acoustics
• Psychoacoustics

The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate the ability to attract external funding, as well as documented proficiency in teaching and supervision at university level.

 Application procedure


The application should be marked with Ref 20130227 and written in English. The application should be sent via Chalmers website, where you also will find detailed instructions for what to include and how to do it.



For questions, please contact:


Prof. Ulf Jarfelt, Head of Department, ulf.jarfelt@chalmers.se, +46 31 772 1928, +46 31 772 1992

Prof. Wolfgang Kropp, Head of Division, wolfgang.kropp@chalmers.se, +46 31 772 2204

Eva Wendeldahl, HR Specialist, eva.wendeldahl@chalmers.se, +46 31 772 2622



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