Tenure Track Assistant Professor/Associate Professor in Statictics at University of Aarhus

The Department of Mathematics at Aarhus University seeks candidates for an Associate Professor/Tenure Track Assistant Professor position in statistics. We, in particular, welcome candidates with a research interest in methodological aspects of applied statistics.

The position is open from 1 August 2024. 

Aarhus University is an international top 100 university with its campus located centrally within the city of Aarhus, Denmark.
 

The Stochastic Group at the Department of Mathematics has 13 permanent faculty members covering both applied and theoretical aspects of probability, statistics, data science and optimization, with the Department as a whole  having 38 permanent staff members.  

The Department has a strong international profile in probability theory and various areas of statistics, as well as close ties to a variety of research groups at the university, and the Department  houses an applied Statistics Laboratory. 

The Department of Mathematics wants to continue and expand the interdisciplinary research in close collaboration with the surrounding community – you can learn more  about the department from its strategic goals for 2020-2025, see here    

A successful candidate is expected to, and evaluated through demonstrated potentials within:

• Participate in and drive research through international and local collaboration.
• Teach and develop statistics courses.
• Supervise students at all levels from Bachelor to PhD.
• Build and sustain a research group through external funding.

What the Department of Mathematics, the city of Aarhus as well as Denmark can offer the successful candidate:

• A typical teaching load of 4-5 hours of lectures per week during the semester, plus project supervision.
• Administrative support and professional guidance for submitting grant applications.
• A positive and international work environment with a flat hierarchy.
• Subsidized preschool child care and a free education system from primary school up to university level.
• Universal health insurance as a resident of Denmark, including family members officially residing in Denmark.
• Five weeks paid holiday per year.
• In connection with child birth: the right to have a total of 52 weeks shared maternal/paternal leave with full or partial salary pay. 

We encourage all applicants to apply. However, in light of the current gender balance at the department, we particularly encourage female applicants to apply. All applicants will be assessed objectively and according to the same criteria, regardless of gender.