Assistant Professor/Researcher
Are you currently working as an Assistant Professor or interested in a position as an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Technical Sciences? Here you can read about the characteristics of the position at our faculty, and how you can develop your career.
Assistant Professor/Researcher
Assistant Professor positions are time-limited and reserved for researchers pursuing a university career. The main tasks of an Assistant Professor/Researcher are research, research based policy advice and research-based education. At Technical Sciences we only have a few Assistant Professor/Researcher positions.
- Assistant Professors are typically more independent researchers than postdocs. Many of them build their own research unit.
- Assistant Professors teach, supervise graduate students, work with policy advice and supervise PhD students in cooperation with a more senior colleague. Developing educational skills is a career development goal for Assistant Professors/Researchers and AU offers a University Pedagogical Programme.
- For Assistant Professors without tenure track, employment at the Faculty of Technical Sciences is limited to at most four years, whereafter they often continue their career at another research institution.
- Read more about out TenureTenure track assistant professors here
What does it take?
Our criteria for evaluating candidates describe the entry criteria that the Faculty of Technical Sciences uses when assessing candidates for different types of scientific positions:
These criteria can be used both for a dialogue between you and your leader and for a dialogue between a (potential) candidate for a position.
Guidelines for teaching portfolios in SDDs at AU Tech
As part of your career development dialogue you must discuss teaching in the broad sense, meaning not only traditional classroom teaching, but many different kinds of dissemination.
The Teaching Portfolio is a tool to support the discussion of teaching in Staff Development Dialogues. It is relevant for all lecturers at Tech but mandatory for permanently employed Assistant Professors, Researchers, Tenure Tracks, Associate Professors, Senior Researchers, Professors and Senior Professor of Engineering.
Read more about the teaching portfolio in SDD:
English version (Click to download the 'Guidelines for Teaching Portfolios in SDDs at AU Tech' in English as a Word file)
Danish version (Click to download the 'Guidelines for Teaching Portfolios in SDDs at AU Tech' in Danish as a Word file)
Teaching in its broadest sense includes: Lectures, classroom teaching, group supervision, individual supervision, laboratory exercises, presentations/workshops at conferences, supervision of Ph.D. students or postdocs, development of teaching materials, dissemination through print and electronic media, guest teaching at other departments, workshops/seminars for authorities or companies, other mentoring roles for new employees, summer university courses, continuing/professional education targeted at public or private companies, Assistant Professor supervision, workshops on quality assurance of research-based advisory services
Career planning video 1
Links to documents:
Exercise 1 - Motivational factors (Click to download the document as a Word file)
Exercise 2 - Career anchors (Click to download the document in Excel format)
Career planning video 2
Link to document:
Exercise 3 - Skill audit (Click to view the document as a pdf)
