Last Date: 27th October 2024

Supervisors: Professor Francesca Verones (Francesca.verones@ntnu.no), Dr. Martin Dorber

The Department of Energy and Process Engineering

About the job:

The Postdoctoral Fellowship position is a temporary position where the main goal is to qualify for work in senior academic positions.

Life cycle assessment (LCA) is an important tool for sustainable decision-making. In recent decades, there has been progress in terms of the number, complexity and accuracy of impact categories covered; especially for those related to ecosystem quality.  However, there are still some gaps, especially on a midpoint level. The Postdoctoral position aims to develop midpoint models to quantify impacts within life cycle assessment (LCA) from food production, as well as improving land use models with remote sensing data and testing the developed models in case studies.

The Industrial Ecology Programme (IndEcol) is a pioneer in the development and application of industrial ecology methods, as well as the use of large data sets and scientific computing in industrial ecology. We focus on understanding resource use and environmental pollution associated with human activities, assessing the environmental aspects of different technologies and modeling society’s use of materials. IndEcol combines world-class competence in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Input-Output analysis (I/O), and Material Flow Analysis (MFA) with scientists’ contribution to IPCC and IPBES assessment reports, the International Resource Panel, active participation to the Life-Cycle Initiative hosted by UN Environment, and numerous publications featured in high-ranked journals.

Your immediate leader is Professor Francesca Verones. Dr. Martin Dorber is co-supervisor of the candidate.

Salary and conditions:

As a Postdoctoral Fellow (code 1352) you are normally paid from gross NOK 615 700 per annum before tax, depending on qualifications and seniority. From the salary, 2% is deducted as a contribution to the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund.

The period of employment is 3 years.

The engagement is to be made in accordance with the regulations in force concerning State Employees and Civil Servants, and the acts relating to Control of the Export of Strategic Goods, Services and Technology. Candidates who by assessment of the application and attachment are seen to conflict with the criteria in the latter law will be prohibited from recruitment to NTNU. 

After the appointment you must assume that there may be changes in the area of work.

The position is subject to external funding.

It is a prerequisite you can be present at and accessible to the institution on a daily basis.

About the application :

The application and supporting documentation to be used as the basis for the assessment must be in English.

Publications and other scientific work must be attached to the application. Please note that applications are only evaluated based on the information available on the application deadline. You should ensure that your application shows clearly how your skills and experience meet the criteria which are set out above. 

If, for any reason, you have taken a career break or have had an atypical career and wish to disclose this in your application, the selection committee will take this into account, recognizing that the quantity of your research may be reduced as a result.

The application must include:

CV and certificates

Transcripts and diplomas for bachelor’s-, master’s- and PhD degrees. If you have not yet completed your Ph.D, you must provide confirmation on your estimated date for the doctoral dissertation, or that your PhD thesis has been submitted

A copy of the doctoral thesis. If you are close to submitting, or have recently submitted your thesis, you can attach a draft of the thesis. Documentation of a completed doctoral degree must be presented before taking up the position

Academic works – published or unpublished – that you would like to be considered in the assessment

Candidates are required to submit a one-page sketch on how they plan to use their scientific background and research ambitions to address the research challenges of this position

Name and contact information of three referees

If all, or parts, of your education has been taken abroad, we also ask you to attach documentation of the scope and quality of your entire education, both bachelor’s and master’s education, in addition to other higher education. Description of the documentation required can be found here. If you already have a statement from Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills, please attach this as well.

Joint works will be considered. If it is difficult to identify your contribution to joint works, you must attach a brief description of your participation.