| The Department of Animal Science, Aarhus University, invites highly qualified applicants for a position in applied biometrics available from 1 November 2018 or soon thereafter. Aarhus University offers talented scientists attractive career perspectives. You can apply for the positions at either assistant professor/researcher or associate professor/senior scientist level. An internationally excellent applicant at assistant professor/researcher level has the opportunity to achieve a tenure track position, which means that the successful candidate will be appointed for a period of six years with the prospect of performance-based advancement to a tenured position as associate professor or senior scientist. Internationally excellent applicants at both levels have the opportunity to apply for a competitive starting grant to boost the building of their research team.
The position The main activity will be research and support to scientists in statistical methods and analyses in relation to animal science topics. A variety of statistical methods and analyses is needed to cover the activities in the department. Data include results from designed animal experiments or online sensor data from livestock or livestock production systems to, for example, recognise patterns in behavioural, physiological, immunological or production responses. An activity could then be development of models to predict changes in physiological status, risk of disease, welfare, environmental impact and performance of the animals. The successful candidate are expected to take initiatives in interdisciplinary research together with national and international research and industry partners and to ensure external funding to establish a successful research programme and their own research team.
Further, the successful applicant will participate in providing research-based consultancy to authorities, participate in knowledge exchange with society and industry, and participate in teaching and supervising students at the Bachelor, Master and PhD levels.
The candidate Qualifications for the researcher/assistant professor/tenure track levels at Aarhus University include minimum two years’ experience at postdoc level with a relevant research profile and a strong scientific publication. Further information on tenure track can be found here.
Qualifications for the senior scientist or associate professor at Aarhus University include a relevant research profile, documented by a strong scientific publication record, successful grant writing and experience with project management, industrial/public sector collaboration, as well as teaching and supervision experience. Criteria for evaluating candidates can be found here.
Department of Animal Science (ANIS) The mission of ANIS is to perform basic, strategic and applied research and innovation within the department’s core activities: health, welfare and nutrition. The activities make up the science-based foundation for ANIS’ teaching, public sector consultancy and collaboration with business and industry. ANIS has strong research units within immunology and microbiology, molecular nutrition and reproduction, animal nutrition and physiology, animal behaviour and stress biology, and epidemiology and management in which the core activities take place. The successful applicants will be working across the research units of ANIS.
Please refer to http://anis.au.dk/en/ for further information about The Department of Animal Science, http://anis.au.dk/en/research/research-groups/ for information on the research units and to http://scitech.au.dk/en/ and http://www.au.dk/en/ for information on Science and Technology and Aarhus University, respectively.
Living in Denmark
Place of Work and area of Employment The place of work is Blichers Allé 20, DK-8830 Tjele, and the area of employment is Aarhus University with related departments. Teaching activities are primarily conducted at AU-Campus, 8000 Aarhus.
Further information on the position may be obtained from head of department Klaus Lønne Ingvartsen, phone +45 8715 7757, e-mail: kli@anis.au.dk. Application procedure
Please state in your application if you apply either at assistant professor/researcher or associate professor/senior scientist level or both.
Shortlisting is used. This means that after the deadline for applications and with the assistance from the assessment committee chairman, and the assessment committee if necessary, the head of department selects the candidates to be evaluated. The selection is made on the basis of an assessment of who of the candidates are most relevant considering the requirements of the advertisement. All applicants will be notified within 6 weeks whether or not their applications have been sent to an expert assessment committee for evaluation. The selected applicants will be informed about the composition of the committee and will receive his/her assessment. Once the recruitment process is completed a final letter of rejection is sent to the deselected applicants, including the main considerations emphasized during the selection process.
Formalities and salary range
Science and Technology refers to the Ministerial Order on the Appointment of Academic Staff at Danish Universities under the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation.
The application must be in English and include a curriculum vitae, degree certificate, a complete list of publications, a statement of future research plans and information about research activities, teaching portfolio and verified information on previous teaching experience (if any). Guidelines for applicants can be found here.
Appointment shall be in accordance with the collective labour agreement between the Danish Ministry of Finance and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations. Further information on qualification requirements and job content may be found in the Memorandum on Job Structure for Academic Staff at Danish Universities. (in Danish).
Salary depends on seniority as agreed between the Danish Ministry of Finance and the Confederation of Professional Associations.
All interested candidates are encouraged to apply, regardless of their personal background. Research activities will be evaluated in relation to actual research time. Thus, we encourage applicants to specify periods of leave without research activities, in order to be able to subtract these periods from the span of the scientific career during the evaluation of scientific productivity.
Aarhus University offers Relocation service to International researchers. You can read more about it here.
Deadline
All applications must be made online and received by: 13.08.2018 | 
