Professor in Chemistry of Sustainable and Healthy Foods

Job Summary

The National Food Institute, a department at DTU, invites applications for a position as professor in chemistry of sustainable and healthy foods.

The department conducts research in sustainable and value-adding solutions in the area of food and health for the benefit of society. The Institute’s vision is to prevent disease and promote health, develop new and better food products for a growing population, and create sustainable technological solutions. Innovative use of multiple data from various chemical analyses, targeted or untargeted, is crucial to reaching the goals of sustainable and healthy foods.

Responsibilities and tasks

You should have a clear vision for the research field, the development of the research group and the collaboration within DTU and abroad.

You are expected to manage a research group for Chemical Food Chemistry with about 20 staff members. The research disposes over more than 20 different analytical instruments including Q-TOFs and LC-MSs/GC-MSs. The research group is responsible for two out of four European Reference laboratories at the department.

You will be involved in scientific advice for authorities as well as working closely with industrial partners. You will also be involved in teaching activities at BSc, MSc, and PhD levels. For international candidates, DTU can provide Danish language courses enabling the candidates to teach in Danish within 2-3 years.

Qualifications

To be successful in applying for the professorship and subsequently to fulfil the job, you should have a clear vision for the analytical food chemistry. You should have a clear strategy for which collaborators at other research institutions to engage with, with which industries to initiate collaboration with, and how to provide advice to governmental agencies on the newest knowledge in the food chemistry field.

In order to be able to fulfil these aims, you should be an experienced leader of chemical research projects, in charge of analytical infrastructure and have good experience with management.

Application procedure

Please submit your online application. Applications must be submitted as one PDF file containing all materials to be given consideration. To apply, please open the link ‘Apply online’, fill out the online application form, and attach all your materials in English in one PDF file. The file must include:

• Application (cover letter) addressed to the President
• CV
• A vision for future research
• Teaching and research statement, with a focus on the ‘Assessment’ bullet points listed above
• Documentation of previous teaching and research, as related to the ‘Assessment’ bullet points listed above
  List of publications indicating scientific highlights
• H-index, and ORCID (see e.g. http://orcid.org/)
• Diploma (MSc/PhD)