Chalmers: search begins for leading researchers of the future

02 Dec 2009 | Network Updates

Chalmers has begun recruiting for its advance programme, in which it aims to recruit leading researchers of the future, to put the focus on sustainability in eight subject areas identified as of importance to society. A broad national and international recruitment campaign has started to find assistant professors in the areas of Energy, Information and Communication Technology, Life Science, Materials Science, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Production, Built Environment and Transport.

Each position comes with a generous support package affording a PhD student, relocation, a leadership programme, mentoring and more.

The aim is for the researchers, together with various bodies and organisations, to develop sustainable solutions for the society of the future.

“We are looking for, and hoping to find the leading researchers of the future - researchers who also have a strong interest in bringing their research out to the community,” says Stefan Bengtsson, First Vice President at Chalmers who is responsible for the advance programme.

It is not only the reach of the recruitment process that represents a new approach. Once in place the new researchers will not have a set place at any department or division.

“They will be free to choose where in the organisation they wish to work. The aim is that they will build bridges within and between [each of] the areas of [in the] advance [programme],” Bengtsson said.

The idea is that from the start, research in each of the areas is characterised by collaboration and openness to new ideas. “They should respond to concrete and complex issues. In the long-term, this will ensure that Chalmers contributes with know-how and expertise that will have an impact on the community,” Bengtsson added.

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