Lund University was founded in 1666 and is repeatedly ranked among the world's top universities. The University has around 47,000 students and more than 8,800 staff based in Lund, Helsingborg, and Malmö. We are united in our efforts to understand, explain, and improve our world and the human condition.
Lund University welcomes applicants with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We regard gender equality and diversity as a strength and an asset.
The Department of Automatic Control at Lund University, Faculty of Engineering invites applications for a position as Senior Lecturer.
Optimization, machine learning, and control theory together form a central toolbox for understanding, analyzing, and controlling complex systems. These fields span deep mathematical theory and algorithm development as well as engineering methods that enable robust and efficient practical solutions. As society and technology evolve toward increasingly large-scale, data-intensive, and interconnected systems, the need for scalable methods and reliable guarantees becomes increasingly clear — both in research and in education.
At the Department of Automatic Control, LTH, research and teaching are conducted in an international environment with around 60 employees, including doctoral students, postdocs, and faculty with broad subject expertise. The department has a strong tradition in systems and control theory, while also expanding toward large-scale optimization, data-driven methods, and machine learning. The work environment is characterized by an open and ambitious atmosphere, with collaborations both within academia and with industrial partners, nationally and internationally.
Lund University and the Department of Automatic Control welcome applicants with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We view gender equality and diversity as strengths and assets. The department currently has three female professors, including a Lise Meitner Professor, and one female senior lecturer. Of our 15 senior faculty members, five have an international background. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are important to us.
We are now seeking an internationally established researcher for a position as Senior Lecturer in distributed and/or large-scale optimization, learning, and control. We particularly welcome candidates operating at the intersection of at least two of these three areas. The research may, for example, concern scalable optimization methods, resource-efficient and robust machine-learning methods, or optimization-based and/or learning-based methods for control. The research may be purely theoretical or motivated by a relevant application domain.
The position includes conducting research of high international quality, developing an independent line of research, contributing to attracting external research funding, and teaching and supervising in optimization, learning, and/or control at the undergraduate, advanced, and doctoral levels.
Automatic Control with focus on the intersection of optimization, learning, and control.
The subject area covers theory, methodology, and algorithm development, where the research is conducted at the intersection between at least two of the following fields: optimization, machine learning, and control theory, with an emphasis on large-scale and/or distributed methods and systems. Central aspects include scalable methods with well-founded analysis of, for example, computational and communication cost, convergence and performance guarantees, robustness, and the handling of uncertainty and limited resources.
The area includes, for example:
Work duties include:
Appointment to senior lecturer requires that the applicant has:
When assessing the applicants, special importance will be given to research and teaching expertise within the subject, (weighting research experience stronger than teaching experience).
The assessment criteria specify the aspects to be taken into account, and the level to be achieved, in order for the assessment criteria to be deemed fulfilled. The following assessment criteria must be fulfilled for appointment to senior lecturer:
The extent to which the applicant, through their experience and skills, may complement and strengthen ongoing research, undergraduate education, departmental innovation, and how they can contribute to the future development of the department will also be taken into consideration.
Lund University is a public authority which means that employees get particular benefits, generous annual leave, and an advantageous occupational pension scheme. Read more on the University website about being a Lund University employee.
Applications shall be written in English. Please draw up the application in accordance with LTH's Academic qualifications portfolio – see link below. Upload the application as PDF-files in the recruitment system. Read more:
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