Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Waste Management, Resource Engineering and Circularity

If you want to boost your career as a researcher and educator in waste management, resource engineering, and circularity, here is your chance! We offer a new opportunity to join the faculty in one of the world’s leading university departments in environmental and resource engineering. At DTU Sustain, you will work at the forefront of science, providing solutions to major societal challenges related to climate change, circularity, sustainability, and environmental quality. 

Responsibilities and qualifications

Your overall focus will be to strengthen DTU Sustain’s competences within the circularity and waste management of household waste with a focus on textiles and similar consumer goods, through material characterization and application of Material Flow Analysis (MFA) and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). In addition, you will be responsible for coordinating our bachelor’s level Resource Engineering course, which is a cornerstone in our environmental engineering program. You will assist in planning and facilitating courses in the LCA of Waste Management Systems, as well as collaborate with educators across the department in developing collaborative and interdisciplinary approaches within MFA and LCA across different research domains.  

Your expertise should contribute to further development of these topics, but can potentially also add new relevant topics beyond these. You will interact with students, academia, public authorities, consultants, and industrial partners in Denmark as well as abroad. 

We expect that you have a strong background in textile- and plastic-waste assessment with both lab and modelling experience, preferably with an engineering (or similar) background or experience. 

Your primary tasks will be, in collaboration with the group, to: 

• Communicate and collaborate with key stakeholders in the waste management and business sectors of the Danish market to develop new and innovative approaches for sampling and modeling the flows of waste in society today. 
• Perform research at an international level in the cross-field of waste, resources, sustainability, and circularity.
• Build up, develop, and contribute with new experimental approaches and methods for modelling resources, and prospective waste management scenarios.
• Build up, develop, and maintain waste LCA databases (waste management technologies, household and industrial waste fractions, etc).
• Develop insight into specific waste problems and/or specific waste technologies to contribute to the data-based system modelling constituting a common platform for our research.
• Contribute to research in the group and with colleagues in related sections (materials, environmental assessment, etc.).
• Develop and promote the EASETECH tool, for which previous in-depth working knowledge is a requirement and must be documented in the application.
• Teach and supervise BSc and MSc student projects and be a supervisor for PhD students covering a broad range of waste-related topics.
• Show interest in sustainability theory and practice, as well as a firm theoretical grounding is sustainable transition planning. 

Application procedure

Your complete online application must be submitted no later than 9 April 2025 (23:59 Danish time).