Postdoc position in Digital twins and model-based engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aarhus University

Are you trailblazer in digitalization and digital twins? Are you thrilled to know how digitalization can help in improving sustainability and circularity? This is your opportunity to join us and lead an innovation action with the EU Horizon project ACCURATE. 

We're looking for highly motivated candidates for a full-time postdoc position. The position is for 18 months with potential extension. The position is available from August 1st 2024, or as soon as possible thereafter.

Project description

The ACCURATE project aims to boost the competitiveness of European manufacturing companies and value chains by improving their sustainability, performance stability, resilience, and ability to manage unforeseen events. It will develop innovative approaches and deliver an integrated Decision Support System, as a multi-scale and multi-level Digital Twins platform, offering a better understanding of the impact of unforeseen events on manufacturing, providing timely, optimal and robust manufacturing supply and value chains design, planning, reconfiguration and recovery, and improving their circularity and sustainability performances.

Job description

The primary task of the Postdoc researcher is to develop and co-create a novel co-simulation framework to integrate production models (e.g., DES-based production models, LCA models, data-driven product quality models) and services (e.g., optimization algorithms, control, uncertainty quantification, etc). This framework will be a digital twin platform proof of concept to demonstrate on different use cases.

The mission includes:

• Develop a backbone architecture for the DT platform using the DTaaS setup.
• Integration and instantiation of different models and services (models and service algorithms are provided by the project stakeholders),
• Design of automated instantiation mechanisms to the platform services (co-simulation, monitoring, analysis, optimization, assessment under statistical uncertainties, …).
• Configuration and assistance to the platform utilization and demos for end-users.

Your profile

Applicants should hold a PhD in Computer Science/Engineering or a related subject. Furthermore, the applicants must have experience/background with the following topics:

• Modeling and model-based engineering
• Simulation, co-simulation and models integration
• Software development
• Knowledge of digital twins is an asset

About us

The postdoctoral researcher will be part of a larger interdsiciplinary research team between ECE (Computer Engineering) and MPE (Mechanical Engineering) Departments working on the ACCURATE project, and will have the chance to supervise PhDs.

Place of work

The postdoctoral researcher will be sitting within the Software Engineering and Computing Systems SECS group,  Helsingforsgade 10, 8200 Aarhus N. 

Contact information

For further information please contact Dr. Jalil Boudjadar (jalilece.au.dk).

Application procedure

Shortlisting is used. This means that after the deadline for applications – and with the assistance from the assessment committee chairman, and the appointment committee if necessary, – the head of department selects the candidates to be evaluated. All applicants will be notified whether or not their applications have been sent to an expert assessment committee for evaluation. The selected applicants will be informed about the composition of the committee, and each applicant is given the opportunity to comment on the part of the assessment that concerns him/her self. Once the recruitment process is completed a final letter of rejection is sent to the deselected applicants.

Letter of reference

If you want a referee to upload a letter of reference on your behalf, please state the referee’s contact information when you submit your application. We strongly recommend that you make an agreement with the person in question before you enter the referee’s contact information, and that you ensure that the referee has enough time to write the letter of reference before the application deadline.

Unfortunately, it is not possible to ensure that letters of reference received after the application deadline will be taken into consideration.

Formalities and salary range

Technical Sciences refers to the Ministerial Order on the Appointment of Academic Staff at Danish Universities under the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation.

The application must be in English and include a curriculum vitae, degree certificate, a complete list of publications, a statement of future research plans and information about research activities, teaching portfolio and verified information on previous teaching experience (if any). Guidelines for applicants can be found here.

Appointment shall be in accordance with the collective labour agreement between the Danish Ministry of Taxation and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations. Further information on qualification requirements and job content may be found in the Memorandum on Job Structure for Academic Staff at Danish Universities.

Salary depends on seniority as agreed between the Danish Ministry of Taxation and the Confederation of Professional Associations.

Aarhus University’s ambition is to be an attractive and inspiring workplace for all and to foster a culture in which each individual has opportunities to thrive, achieve and develop. We view equality and diversity as assets, and we welcome all applicants.

Research activities will be evaluated in relation to actual research time. Thus, we encourage applicants to specify periods of leave without research activities, in order to be able to subtract these periods from the span of the scientific career during the evaluation of scientific productivity.

Aarhus University offers a broad variety of services for international researchers and accompanying families, including relocation service and career counselling to expat partners. Read more here. Please find more information about entering and working in Denmark here.

Aarhus University also offers a Junior Researcher Development Programme targeted at career development for postdocs at AU. You can read more about it here.

The application must be submitted via Aarhus University’s recruitment system, which can be accessed under the job advertisement on Aarhus University's website.

Aarhus University

Aarhus University is an academically diverse and research-intensive university with a strong commitment to high-quality research and education and the development of society nationally and globally. The university offers an inspiring research and teaching environment to its 38,000 students (FTEs) and 8,300 employees, and has an annual revenues of EUR 935 million. Learn more at www.international.au.dk/