Clinical Professor in General Surgery

 

A combined position as Clinical Professor (50%) and as Consultant (50%)  is vacant at the Department of Regional Health Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southern Denmark (SDU) and at the Department of General Surgery, Hospital Sønderjylland respectively.

The position is for a five-year period with the possibility of extension.
 
The academic position

The clinical professor will be appointed at the Department of Regional Health Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, SDU. The position will be within general surgery, and focus areas could include, yet are not limited to, robotic surgery, hernia surgery, and surgical stress. Trans-sectional research and collaboration will be expected.

Areas of responsibility

The clinical professor will be responsible for the development and evaluation of new surgical methods within robotic surgery and hernia surgery. The clinical professor will also be responsible for developing new strategies for collaboration with other key stakeholders in the areas of surgical stress and endocrine metabolism during and after surgery.
 
Additionally, the clinical professor will be expected to teach and mentor postdocs, PhD students, and undergraduate students, as well as to maintain and develop national and international contacts and secure funding. Participation in assessment work is part of the position. Moreover, profiling this research area in the public eye will be an important task.

Research activity, network, and collaboration

The clinical professor will be expected to increase research activity and to expand collaboration with other researchers at hospitals in the Region of Southern Denmark, at SDU, in the rest of Denmark, and internationally.

The clinical position

The clinician will be appointed as a consultant at the Department of General Surgery at the University Hospital of Southern Denmark, Aabenraa and must fulfil the requirements and responsibilities of a consultant in a department of general surgery.

Qualifications

The successful applicant has a PhD or equivalent postgraduate research qualification and must be qualified as a consultant in general surgery. Additionally, the applicant must have substantial skills in both clinical aspects and research within the field of general surgery. The preferred candidate has demonstrated skills and scientific achievements within the area, can motivate, supervise, and has proven research management skills and good interpersonal skills. Danish is not required initially, however, should be mastered at proficiency level C1,  at the Common European Framework of References for Languages within the first 2 years of employment

Employers

SDU and Hospital Sønderjylland offer a modern, inclusive, international, and interdisciplinary working environment with state-of-the-art facilities as well as a strong tradition for close collaboration between SDU and the hospitals in the Region of Southern Denmark, including the Hospital Sønderjylland. 

The Hospital Sønderjylland consists of three hospitals in the Southern part of Jutland.

The hospital has international staff representing many different nationalities. Currently, the scientific staff comprises approximately 40 employees and is expanding in the coming years. The hospital has obligations in teaching and educating medical students, master students, specialist training, and PhD students. 

Acknowledged as a high-quality research and education institution, the Hospital Sønderjylland is now a University Hospital in the Region of Southern Denmark. From 2022, the scientific personnel will contribute to the teaching and training of medical students at the Hospital of South West Jutland in Esbjerg. 

The Department of Regional Health Research supports research in relation to the person as a whole, the good life and the more common diseases, makes out a platform for scientists and educators and builds a bridge between the University of Southern Denmark, the Region of Southern Denmark, the Region of Zealand, the hospitals in the two regions and the patient. The department focuses on the continuity of patient care across sectors, hospitals, and specialist fields

Reference

The clinical professor will refer to the Head of the Department of General Surgery, Per Helligsø in matters concerning the clinical part of the job, and to the Head of the Department of Regional Health Research, Rikke Leth-Larsen in matters regarding the professorship.

Contact information

Further information concerning the professorship can be obtained by email to Coordinative Head of Research at IRS-Hospital Sønderjylland Clinical Professor Christian Backer Mogensen,  Christian.backer.mogensen@rsyd.dk/ +45 79971123 or to the Head of the Department of Regional Health Research, SDU, Rikke Leth-Larsen, rllarsen@health.sdu.dk/ +45 30827801.

Further information concerning the position as a consultant is available from the Head of Department of General Surgery, Hospital Sønderjylland Per Helligsø, Per.Helligso@rsyd.dk/ +45 79973510.

Salary and terms of employment

The successful applicant for the clinical professor position will be employed in accordance with the agreement between the Ministry of Finance and AC (the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations).

Applications will be assessed by an expert committee. Applicants will be informed of their assessment by the university.

Applications - including the required attachments - must be sent via the link "Apply online". Only online applications will be accepted. The attached files must be Adobe PDF or Word format. Each field in the application form can contain up to max. 10 MB.

Only applications written in English will be accepted for evaluation.

The application must contain (as pdf- or Word/Docx- files):

• A motivation letter
• A detailed CV
• Degree certificates (inclusive of PhD diploma)
• A complete and numbered list of publications
• The 10 scientific peer-reviewed publications considered by the candidate as most important for this position. Please notice that one pdf- or Docx- file must be attached for each publication
• A teaching portfolio detailing the candidate's prior teaching experience, teaching skills, and teaching philosophy
• A track record in obtaining research funding
• A record of national and international research collaboration and collaborations with researchers in other disciplines and sectors
• As to the post as a consultant: information on the applicant's skills as concerns "the seven roles of the physician" inclusive of supporting evidence
• A research plan detailing the candidate's ideas and plans for her/his future research work

Incomplete applications with regard to the above-mentioned requirements will not be assessed.
 
Applications may be shortlisted.

References will be obtained for the applicant who is the first choice for the position - from the applicant's most recent employer, and previous employers as required.

Applicants selected for the interview must expect to undergo a personality test specifically targeted at work-related matters.

Further particulars concerning the application - please see the link below.

Gender equality, health, safety, and emergency management are given high priority at SDU and the Department of Regional Health Research.

The University wishes our staff to reflect the diversity of society and thus welcomes applications from all qualified candidates regardless of personal background.

Living and working in Denmark

Foreign applicants will be offered Danish language training as part of the employment. International Staff Office (ISO) at SDU provides a variety of services for new employees, guests, and people who consider applying for a job at the University of Southern Denmark. Among other things, the staff answers questions concerning salary, taxation, housing, and accompanying family. For further information on what it is like working at SDU, please read "10 good reasons why you should choose SDU". Additional information about working in Denmark can be found at Work in Denmark.

Location: Aabenraa

Further details

Read the Guideline for applicants.

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Deadline 2022-June-05

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Assistant Professor in Climate Adaptation and Aquatic Nature-based Solutions

 

The Department of Biology, University of Southern Denmark invites applications for a three-year position as assistant professor within the field of climate adaptation. The position is available from August 2022 or as soon as possible thereafter. Application deadline: 7 June 2022.

The Department of Biology covers biology in a broad sense including ecology, ecotoxicology, bioacoustics, physiology, biodemography, biogeochemistry and earth evolution. We welcome applicants who are prepared to participate in the cross-disciplinary cooperation at the department. The successful applicant is expected to have a research background within climate adaptation (effects, methods, management, aquatic nature based solutions and synergies with climate mitigation, improvement of water quality and biodiversity) and a background within biology, environmental engineering or similar. The applicant will be part of the Ecology group.

The position involves teaching responsibilities in the Danish one-year Master (akademisk overbygningsuddannelse) of Climate Adaptation as well as supervision at bachelor and master level. Therefore, teaching experience within climate adaptation (effects and methods), GIS, project management or project communication related to climate adaptation will be seen as an advantage. The applicant will also be involved in a variety of tasks related to general university services.

The successful applicant will participate in research projects concerning nature-based solutions, nutrient reduction, and climate adaptation/mitigation in the catchment to Odense Fjord as a part of the Odense Fjord Consortia (OFC). OFC is a demonstration setup with Odense Fjord as the demonstration site consisting of all the main players around Odense Fjord (municipalities, utility companies, industries, trade organizations, NGO’s and knowledge institutions). The very ambitious aim of this consortia is to achieve a good ecological condition in Odense Fjord by 2027 plus implementation of climate mitigation aims despite a currently bad condition in the fjord. One challenge is a huge catchment (one third of Funen) discharging water, nutrients and xenobiotics into the fjord plus huge climate related challenges both in the fjord and in the catchment and an impoverished biodiversity.

Appointment as assistant professor presupposes scientific qualifications corresponding to the requirements of this position at university level. The applicant is expected to hold a PhD degree, demonstrate scientific innovation and excellence, publish research outcomes through a number of international peer-reviewed publications, have funding, teaching and supervision experience.

The successful candidate should be willing to complete postgraduate teacher training for assistant professors at SDU if not already achieved and participate in communication to the public – eventually also participate in Citizen Science activities.

The successful candidate will be supported with access to a well-developed research infrastructure, laboratory space, shared equipment, and access to modern core facilities, such as imaging and computational facilities, as well as a research climate of lively, open, and critical academic discussion within and across different fields of research and a network among other young excellent scientists.

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.

Questions can be directed to Associate Professor Sara Egemose (saege@biology.sdu.dk ) or Head of Department Gary Banta (banta@biology.sdu.dk).


Application, salary etc.
Appointment to the position will be in accordance with the salary agreement between the Ministry of Finance and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations. Please check links for more information on salary and taxation.

Applications will be assessed by an expert committee. Applicants will be informed of their assessment by the university.

The application must include the following:
• A curriculum vitae
• A full list of publications
• Copies of all publications on which the applicant wishes to be evaluated
• A brief survey of the applicant's most important research results and research plans for the next three years
• A teaching portfolio.

Shortlisting may be used in the assessment process.

Incomplete applications and applications received after the deadline will neither be considered nor evaluated.

Please note that applicants are expected to have completed their PhD.

The University wishes our staff to reflect the diversity of society and thus welcomes applications from all qualified candidates regardless of personal background.

Applications must be submitted electronically using the link "Apply online". Attached files must be in Adobe PDF or Word format. Each box can only contain a single file of max. 10 Mb. We strongly recommend that you read How to apply before you apply.

Since not all members of the appointment committee are Danish-speaking, it is recommended that your application is submitted in English.

Further information for international applicants about entering and working in Denmark.

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Deadline 2022-June-07

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Postdoctoral Position in Operator Algebras

 

In connection with the project ‘Above and Beyond the Classification of C*-algebras’ (funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark) held by Jamie Gabe, the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science is opening a three-year postdoc position for a young researcher with a research profile in operator algebras. The standard Danish salary is very competitive, and the position also includes a travel budget of 2200 € per year. The teaching load will not exceed one semester per year, corresponding to 10 ECTS, and the teaching may be conducted in English. Currently the research group in operator algebras at the University of Southern Denmark consists of Jamie Gabe, Jeong Hee Hong, Jens Kaad, David Kyed, and Wojciech Szymański.

Starting date: 1 September 2022 (or nearby date).
Duration: three years.
Application deadline: 10 June 2022.

Formal requirement: The candidate is required to be fluent in English and to hold a PhD degree in mathematics at the starting date of the position.

In case further information is needed, please contact Jamie Gabe at gabe@imada.sdu.dk.


Application, salary etc.
The successful applicant will be employed in accordance with the agreement between the Ministry of Finance and AC (the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations). Please check links for more information on salary and taxation.

The application must include the following:
• A curriculum vitae including information on previous employment.
• PhD diploma (if the applicant has not yet defended their dissertation, they should attach a letter from their supervisor confirming that the defense is going to take place before the postdoc position begins). In case the diploma does not state explicitly who supervised the applicant’s dissertation, please make sure to include this information elsewhere.
• A full list of publications including both preprints and published material.

Please do not attach your publications to the application. If an article is not yet published, include instead a link to the arXiv or to your personal webpage in your list of publications.
• A short research statement (max four pages) describing previous and future research interests.
• The names and e-mails of two to three people who will write letters of reference upon request.

Shortlisting may be used in the assessment process.

Incomplete applications and applications received after the deadline will neither be considered nor evaluated.

To qualify you must have passed a PhD or equivalent. Applications will be assessed by an expert assessor/committee. Applicants will be informed of their assessment by the university.

Applications must be submitted electronically using the link "Apply online". Attached files must be in Adobe PDF or Word format. Each box can only contain a single file of max. 10 Mb. We strongly recommend that you read How to apply before you apply.

We encourage all interested people to apply, regardless of age, gender, religious affiliation, or ethnic background.

The University wishes our staff to reflect the diversity of society and thus welcomes applications from all qualified candidates regardless of personal background.

Further information for international applicants about entering and working in Denmark.

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Deadline 2022-June-10

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Postdoc Position in Federated Multi-OMICS Machine Learning

 

The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Southern Denmark for the Computational Biology laboratory chaired by Associate Professor Richard Röttger invites applications for a postdoctoral position within the field of federated machine learning and AI to be filled by 1 July 2022, or soon thereafter, for a period of 18 months. Application deadline: 16 June 2022.

The research is part of a large European effort, FeatureCloud, to establish privacy-aware federated machine learning approaches to enable the mining of distributed, sensitive data. Currently, one major roadblock of biomedical research is that the valuable data is scattered around the globe and sharing and consolidating data is simply not possible due to privacy concerns. With FeatureCloud, we are seeking to elevate this prohibitive problem by allowing federated machine learning, i.e. we leave the data in the safe harbour of storage and train local models at the sites; thereafter only the model parameters are consolidated in a central instance to create a model of similar capabilities as a conventional model trained on all the available data. 

The successful candidate will develop novel approaches for federated machine learning of systems medicine and multi-OMICS data in particular. The candidate will be embedded in a highly international and powerful consortium as a member of the Computational Biology group which offers a wide expertise in machine learning on biomedical data, both in the realm of unsupervised and supervised learning. We also provide the candidate with direct access to state-of-the-art computing facilities optimized for deep learning and distributed computing. 

We are seeking outstanding candidates with strong analytical and problem-solving skills, who are strong in written and oral communication (in English), and have documented experience in data science, machine learning and software development of complex systems. Expertise in the analysis of biological data is an advantage, but not a requirement. Expertise in computer security and data privacy are welcome, but not required.

Place of work:
Computational Biology Group (Associate Professor Richard Röttger, roettger@imada.sdu.dk), Department of Mathematics and Computer Science located at the main campus of the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.


Application, salary etc.

The successful applicant will be employed in accordance with the agreement between the Ministry of Finance and AC (the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations). Please check links for more information on salary and taxation.

Application must be made in the form of a Declaration of Interest and must include the following documents:
1. Letter of motivation and proposed project description, outlining the candidates ideas of how to approach the project (max. two pages).
2. Curriculum vitae, including information on previous employment, list of programming skills mastered by the applicant, and teaching and supervision experience.
3. A list of publications stating the scientific publication(s) on which the applicant wishes to rely (if available).
4. A certified copy of your PhD degree certificate.
5. At least one letter of recommendation from supervisors or previous employers.

Shortlisting may be used in the assessment process.

Incomplete applications and applications received after the deadline will neither be considered nor evaluated.

To qualify you must have passed a PhD or equivalent. Applications will be assessed by an expert assessor/committee. Applicants will be informed of their assessment by the university.

The University wishes our staff to reflect the diversity of society and thus welcomes applications from all qualified candidates regardless of personal background.

Applications must be submitted electronically using the link "Apply online". Attached files must be in Adobe PDF or Word format. Each box can only contain a single file of max. 10 Mb. We strongly recommend that you read How to apply before you apply.

Further information for international applicants about entering and working in Denmark.

Send application

Deadline 2022-June-16

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