Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Production Engineering, Faculty of Tech

at  Oulun Yliopisto

The University of Oulu is a multidisciplinary, international research university, with about 3,600 employees who produce new knowledge based on high-standards research and provide research based education to build a more sustainable, smarter, and more humane world. The University of Oulu community has about 17,000 people in total. Our northern scientific community operates globally and creates conditions for the emergence of innovations.
We are now looking for

A person appointed to the position is responsible for developing the research and teaching of design and analysis of industrial production machinery and his/her task is to lead the machine design research team. The candidate is required to have in-depth knowledge and evidence of research-based teaching in the field. The candidate is expected to have strong evidence of national and international networking, as well as planning of international and national projects, acquiring extramural funding (e.g. industrial financing, Business Finland, Academy of Finland, EU funding programs, others) and leadership skills. The applicant is also expected to be active in the scientific community and to have experience in supervising doctoral dissertations in the field. Industrial experience and industrial contact networks are considered as merits.
The teaching language at the University of Oulu is Finnish. It is also possible to teach in English.