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Faculty of Engineering Science and Technology
Department of Geology and Mineral Resources Engineering
FØRSTEAMANUENSIS/PROFESSOR I GEOLOGI OG BERGTEKNIKK (SEDIMENTOLOGI/ PETROLEUMSGEOLOGI) VED INSTITUTT FOR GEOLOGI OG BERGTEKNIKK. BETENKNING
The announced position is organized at the Department of Geology and Mineral Resources Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering Science and Technology, at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). At present the Department has 11 professors, 7 associate professors, 7 adjunct professors and 16 research fellows and post docs.
The Professorship will have specific responsibility for teaching and research in sedimentology and petroleum geology. Sedimentology is one of the basic topics in the petroleum geology education in two of our study programs. In addition to research in clastic sedimentology the candidate must have interest in teaching and advising Master and Ph.D. Experience in sedimentological fieldwork is required, and knowledge of the petroleum geology at the continental shelf as well as knowledge of other methodologies (e.g. well logging, seismic, and/or reservoir modeling) is desirable. The department has several analytical facilities (e.g. in mineralogy and geotechnology), and there is also potential for collaboration with the Department of Petroleum Technology and Applied Geophysics (IPT).
The successful applicant for a Professorship must be able to document his/her extensive disciplinary qualifications in important fields within the discipline. His/her individual work must document scientific expertise in one or more parts of the discipline, particularly the specialist fields the professorship has specific responsibility for. Weight will be placed on the ability to supervise and initiate research and development work.
Pedagogical skills are important. The evaluation of the candidate will be based on documented pedagogical material, including pedagogical education/training, the presentation of academic work, experience from supervising master-level students and doctoral candidates, and teaching as well as other pedagogical matters. The evaluation will consider both the quality and scope.
Academic staff who are employed without having a formal pedagogical qualification in university-level teaching and are unable to document equivalent qualifications, are required to follow an introductory one-day course in university-level teaching. The applicants that have been short-listed will be invited for interviews and a demonstration of their pedagogical ability, usually in the form of a trial lecture.
The Professor is to be jointly responsible for disciplinary matters together with other academic staff in the department. The Professor is required to participate in teaching activities in accordance with the relevant curriculum and assist in further developing the teaching programme, research fellows and doctoral candidates in his/her discipline. The professor is obligated to follow the regulations that concern changes and developments within and/or the organizational changes concerning activities at the university.
The Professor/associate professor is obliged to follow the regulations that concern changes and developments within the discipline and/or the organizational changes concerning activities at the University.
The appointment is to be made in accordance with the regulations in force concerning State Employees and Civil Servants.
NTNU promotes women researchers inn all strategic areas of the university and women are therefore strongly encouraged to apply. We can offer a remuneration package or a qualification fellowship for the new women researchers we employ.
The position adheres to the Norwegian Government’s policy of balanced ethnicity, age and gender. Persons with immigrant background are encouraged to apply.
The position as Professor is remunerated according wage levels 67 to 98 on the Norwegian State salary scale, with gross salary from NOK 548 000 to NOK 1 125 230 per annum. The position as Associate Professor is remunerated according to wage level 57 ? 76 on the Norwegian State salary scale, with gross salary form NOK 456 000 ? 654 500. There will be a 2 % deduction to The Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund from gross salary.
Further information on the position may be obtained from Head of Department/Professor Mai Britt Mørk, phone +47 73 59 48 12, email mai.britt.mork [a] ntnu[.]no
Applicants are asked to give an account of their pedagogical qualifications according to prepared guidelines ("Documentation of an applicant’s pedagogical qualifications") which can be obtained from the following address on internet: .
Each applicant for the position must send 5 copies of the application with certified copies of certificates, testimonials and a list of academic work, and 5 sets of their:
Academic work - published or unpublished - that has relevance to the evaluation of the applicant’s qualifications by the evaluation committee (not more than 10 such submissions).
A description of all the academic/artistic work that the applicant feels is most significant and that he/she feels the evaluation committee should pay particular attention to.
Joint work will be evaluated. If it is difficult to identify the contributions from individuals in a joint piece of work, applicants are to enclose a short descriptive summary of what he/she did in this connection.
Applications are to be sent to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Engineering Science and Technology, Høgskoleringen 6, 7491 Trondheim. The file number for the position (IVT-14/12) is to be clearly stated on the application. The application deadline is 11 April 2012.
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