Professor and Head of Subject of Information Systems

In the role of professor and head of subject in Information Systems, you will have access to an open and dynamic research environment with great opportunities to develop the field and research subject. Here you will have access to and support from an established research group that you will lead with good financial and administrative conditions. The subject includes studies and development of digital practices, resources, artefacts and systems. At Luleå University of Technology, research focuses on developing knowledge about and influencing the ongoing digital transformation in society with the aim of contributing to a sustainable society where we take our starting point in local conditions to achieve global change. Within the subject, we offer teaching in four educational programmes: Systems Science, Digital Service Development, Data Science and Information Security.

Qualifications
Qualified for an appointment as professor are those who have demonstrated both research and teaching expertise. As much attention must be given to the assessment of teaching expertise as to the assessment of research expertise.

In order to meet the requirements for the appointment as professor, the applicants must:

• be prominent within their subject area and demonstrate, within that area, original and innovative scientific activities of high international standard, comprising a complete scientific production equivalent to at least three doctoral theses;
• demonstrate academic leadership through, for example,
• research-related commissions of trust, for instance, as an external expert, an external reviewer or a member of an examining committee,
• management of national or international research projects,
• experience of applying for and being granted, in competition, external funding for research and development projects,
• experience of managerial tasks within a University.
  • demonstrate the ability to collaborate with the wider community through, for example,
    • dissemination of new knowledge to the wider community,
    • incorporation of societal needs into research and/or education contexts.
  • have experience of supervising doctoral students and have been the principal supervisor for at least one doctoral student for the entire period from admission to doctoral degree, unless there are special grounds to the contrary,
  • have demonstrated teaching expertise.