Post-doctoral position in Aeronautical Sciences - Hiring in process/Finished, not possible to apply

Subject description
At Lund University School of Aviation (LUSA) we conduct research within the broad Aeronautical Sciences, but with a specific focus on contemporary Human Factors, Safety Science and systems theory. We are curiously asking questions related to the sources of safety and resilience in everyday operations, to the language used to define the discourse of aviation safety and to better understand and influence the adaptive capacities of high-risk systems in the digitalized transport industries.

We are now seeking to expand our team of researchers by adding a postdoctoral researcher within the Horizion 2020 collaboration under the SESAR-JU project ‘SaFety and Resilience Guidelines for Aviation’ (FARO). FARO addresses the sub work area Performance, Economics, Legal and Regulation, and more specifically, in the topic SESAR-ER4-06-2019, Safety and Resilience. The topic, as described, identified a Specific Challenge:

A better understanding of the influence/impact of the change on the way organisations deliver services upon safety / resilience is necessary to support the design of a safe and resilient future ATM system.

FARO will develop an adaptive methodology able to track how a change due to an automation process impacts upon safety and resilience by combining knowledge-based and data-driven approaches. FARO proposes to track automation-related factors in the data-driven process corresponding to different layers of a complex sociotechnical multi-agent system, such as organisational, systems and human dynamics levels.

Work duties
The post-doctoral position is to conduct research. It will involve working with a multidisciplinary and multi-national academic industry research collaboration in the FARO project. 

The postholder will be involved with all work packages and working principally on the one work package that is led by LU on the development of a safety and resilience conceptual framework and a system of indicators. The position will involve particpating in working meetings overseas as well as conferences, seminars and workshops.

The post-doctoral researcher will be involved in all of the work packages but working principally on the one work package that is led by LU on the development of safety and resilience conceptual framework and a system of indicators. The position will involve particpating in working meetings overseas as well as conferences, seminars and workshops.

The research activities will to a large extent be built upon the development of a theoretical framework with which a knowledge driven approach to the development of indicators of macro and meso resilient performance can be assessed for future concepts of operation.  This will involve the analysis of safety related data and derivation of alternative perspectives of safety and resilient performance that may be derived from non-safety related system dynamics and characteristics of the socio-technical system e.g. emergent properties, macro, micro and meso levels of abstraction.  Other duties will include the writing of papers and technical reports for publication that share and illustrate FARO projects research activities. Participating in working meetings and workshops overseas as well as conferences and seminars. Cooperation with researchers and Ph.d students within Lund University internally and Collaboration with industry and wider society.  Additionally, there are tasks associated with administration related to the work duties described above.The position shall include the opportunity for three weeks of training in higher education teaching and learning.

Qualification requirements: The succesful candidate
This is a career development position primarily focused on research. The position is intended as an initial step in a career, and the assessment of the applicants will primarily be based on their research qualifications and potential as researchers.

Particular emphasis will be placed on research skills within the specialisations human factors, cognitive science, organisational psychology, safety science or equivalent.  Eligibility for this position requires experience in both qualitative and quantitative research approaches.

Appointment to a post-doctoral position requires that the applicant has a PhD, or an international degree deemed equivalent to a PhD.   The doctorate shall have been obtained no longer than three years before the expiration date of the application.

Additional requirements:

• Experience from research in fields such as cognitive science, human factors, organisational or system safety, safety science, resilience engineering
• Very good oral and written proficiency in English.
• Very good communication skills
• A willingness to collaborate with researchers and experience from such collaborations

Consideration will also be given to good collaborative skills, drive and independence, and how the applicant’s experience and skills complement and strengthen ongoing research within the department, and how they stand to contribute to its future development.

Assessment criteria and other qualifications
This is a career development position primarily focused on research. The position is intended as an initial step in a career, and the assessment of the applicants will primarily be based on their research qualifications and potential as researchers.
Particular emphasis will be placed on research skills within the subject.

For appointments to a post-doctoral position, the following shall form the assessment criteria:

• A good ability to develop and conduct high quality research.
• Teaching skills.

Consideration will also be given to good collaborative skills, drive and independence, and how the applicant’s experience and skills complement and strengthen ongoing research within the department, and how they stand to contribute to its future development.

Terms of employment
This is a full-time, fixed-term employment of a maximum of 2 years. The period of employment is determined in accordance with the agreement “Avtal om tidsbegränsad anställning som postdoktor” (“Agreement on fixed-term employment as a post-doctoral fellow”) between Lund University, SACO-S, OFR/S and SEKO, dated 4 September 2008.

Instructions on how to apply
Applications shall be written in English. Please draw up the application in accordance with LTH’s Academic qualifications portfolio – see link below. Upload the application as PDF-files in the recruitment system. Read more:

http://www.lth.se/english/working-at-lth/to-apply-for-academic-positions-at-lth/