Professor/Associate Professor in Hydropower Technologies

About The Position

The Department of Energy and Process Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering is seeking to appoint a permanent/tenured Professor/Associate Professor in experimental fluid dynamics focusing on hydropower technologies. We are looking for ambitious candidates with a commitment to teaching and a documented track record of research excellence to strengthen and expand hydropower research activities within the department. Hydropower research is based at the Waterpower Laboratory, which was established in 1917, and is of strategic importance in Norway having several unique test facilities.

Your immediate leader is Head of Department.

Duties of the position

The Professorship is responsible for teaching, supervision and research within technology of hydraulic machinery and systems. The teaching will consist of basic fluid mechanics and specialized courses at all levels in the Master-and PhD-study in addition to supervision of students working on their project- and master-thesis. Furthermore, it should be noted that the subjects that will be taught include surveillance, maintenance and specification of mechanical equipment in hydropower stations, environmental impact, as well as operational optimization and coordinated operation between hydropower and other renewable energy technologies.

The Professorship is responsible for building a portfolio of research projects together with the staff at the Waterpower Laboratory and researchers within the Norwegian Hydropower/Research community. They must generate national and international (EU) funding, supervise doctoral candidates and publish research in peer-reviewed journals.

The professor’s office will be located on NTNU’s campus in Trondheim.

Required Qualifications

• A doctoral degree within Mechanical/Fluid Engineering, or competence at an equivalent level documented either by scientific work or artistic work of the same scope and quality
• Academic achievements within the field of the professorship
• Experience from laboratory work and physical experiments with fluid machinery
• Experience from development of experimental techniques
• Teaching and supervision experience within mechanical and/or fluid engineering
• Excellent written and oral English language skills
• Norwegian language skills at level B2, either upon appointment or within three years of employment

Additional Requirements For Professor Must Be Documented

• A track record in participating, initiating and/or managing research and technology projects
• An active network in academia and industry, particularly relevant to the position
• Experience from R&D collaboration together with national and/or international industry
• Experience with supervision at master- and PhD level
• Initiate, lead and/or participate in the development of educational quality in the academic communities

For Both Positions

You must document relevant basic competence in teaching and supervision at a university/higher education-level, as referenced in the NTNUs guidelines for academic positions. If this cannot be documented, you will be required to complete an approved course in university pedagogy within two years of commencement. NTNU offers qualifying courses.

New employees who do not speak a Scandinavian language by appointment is required, within three years, to demonstrate skills in Norwegian or another Scandinavian language equivalent to level B2of the course for Norwegian for speakers of other languages at the Department of Language and Literature at NTNU.

Preferred Qualifications

• Industrial experience from the design, operation and maintenance of mechanical equipment in hydropower plants
• Experience from laboratory work and physical experiments with hydro turbines
• Experience from numerical analysis such as CFD and FSI

Personal qualities

• The position requires a high level of personal responsibility and initiative
• Ability and motivation to conduct high-quality research, including publishing the results in relevant journals and presenting at conferences
• Creativity and willingness to work in an inter-disciplinary project team
• Analytical and critical thinking skills, with the ability to approach complex academic and practical challenges in a structured manner
• Motivational qualities with the ability to engage and encourage students and colleagues
• Relationship-building skills which create constructive collaboration with students, research partners, and industry partners
• Strategic thinking and a long-term perspective with the ability to identify opportunities, set priorities, and contribute to the strategic development of the department

Emphasis will be placed on personal and interpersonal