Professor in Crop Modelling

at  Aarhus Universitet

The Department of Agroecology at Aarhus University, Denmark, invites applications for a position as Professor in Crop Modelling. The professorship is a full-time and permanent position starting on 01-12-2024 or as soon as possible thereafter.
You are expected to contribute significantly to the department’s research and teaching and to promote the overall research strategy. You are expected to teach and supervise students at the BSc, MSc, and PhD levels, and you will further lead research of the highest international standard contributing to the development of our academic field.

You will be part of a research environment focusing on carbon and nutrient cycling in agroecosystems. You will be contributing to specifically the area of soil, plant, atmosphere modelling of nutrient dynamics and the focus of your position will be to:

• Conduct research of high international quality, including publication in high-impact scientific journals and communicating your research in national and international academic networks
• Teach, supervise, and examine BSc, MSc and PhD students as well as contributing to the development of the department’s PhD courses.
• Attracting external research funding
• Assessment and committee work at Aarhus University
• Research-based collaboration with private and public-sector stakeholders as well as research-based policy consultancy.
• Dissemination of your research to the outside world

We further expect that you will be an integrated part of the research environment and that you will contribute positively to the social working environment.

WHO WE ARE

At the Department of Agroecology, our main goal is to contribute to sustainable solutions to some of the world’s biggest problems within the areas of soil, plants, animals, humans, and the environment. We want to make a difference by contributing to both fundamental knowledge generation and the attainment of sustainable production systems via innovative research, contracted policy advice, and education. We offer professional laboratories, greenhouses, semi-field, and field-scale research facilities, advanced computing capacities as well as an extensive national and international researcher network. The department consists of eight research sections with around 320 highly dedicated employees, of which approximately 50% are scientific staff. More information can be found here.
We believe in encouraging inclusion, acceptance, and understanding by employing staff who bring unique perspectives to our department.

Please refer the Job description for details