Senior Lecturer in Experimental Medical Science - Hiring in process/Finished, not possible to apply

The post
Appointment for an indefinite term as Senior Lecturer in Experimental Medical Science, based until further notice at the Department of Experimental Medical Science.

Work duties
The work duties include teaching and research in experimental medical science. One important element is to develop research in experimental medicine within one of the research areas pursued by the department. The successful candidate is expected to lead research within this area at an international level while stimulating colleagues and doctoral students to engage in local collaborations that further develop the department’s broad activities. The research will also be expected to contribute to the clinical development of new therapies, diagnostics, treatment or prevention. This is to be done in close collaboration with other research teams at Lund University or Skåne University Hospital, as well as international research environments. The successful candidate is expected to run broad research preferably in collaboration with international groups. The position also includes internal and/or external elected office duties. Teaching within the faculty’s various study programmes in the first, second and third cycles and other teaching duties are included.
If the successful candidate lacks five weeks’ training in teaching and learning in higher education at the time of appointment, their work duties will include completing this training within the first two years of employment. Other duties may also arise as part of the position.

Qualifications
According to chapter 4, section 4 of the Higher Education Ordinance a person qualified for appointment as a senior lecturer is to have demonstrated teaching expertise and been awarded a PhD or acquired the corresponding research competence or some other professional expertise that is of value in view of the subject matter of the post and the duties that it will involve.

According to Lund University’s Appointment Rules, the applicant must have completed at least five weeks of training in teaching and learning in higher education or acquired the corresponding knowledge in some other way in order to be qualified.

Assessment criteria
The applicant is to have demonstrated research and teaching expertise of significance for the subject. The applicant is to demonstrate leadership ability, an ability to interact with wider society and a good capacity for collaboration. The assessment will particularly emphasise research expertise. Especially significant qualifications are:
- having supervised a number of doctoral students as principal supervisor all the way through to the public defence of their thesis;
- having obtained international grants as a project manager and having collaborated in international consortia (e.g. EU networks);
- running specialised translational medical research including clear collaboration with other research disciplines, such as other faculties or specialised pharmaceutical research.

In addition to the requirements stated in the Higher Education Ordinance, the regulations that apply to the appointment of teaching staff are the Lund University Appointment Rules and the Faculty of Medicine’s general requirements profile and assessment criteria for appointments as senior lecturer: https://www.medicine.lu.se

More information
For more information, please contact dean Kristina Åkesson, tel: +46 46 222 80 84, email: kristina. akesson@med.lu.se or head of department Tomas Deierborg tel. +46 70 970 82 12, email: tomas.deierborg@med.lu.se.
Information on the application procedure will be provided by the recruitment administrator Helene Berggren, tel. +46 46 222 71 11, helene.berggren@med.lu.se. The position will be filled following a proposal from the Faculty of Medicine’s Academic Appointments Board.  

Application procedure
Applications are to be submitted electronically via the Lund University application portal no later than 15 June 2021. The application is to be made according to the Faculty of Medicine’s instructions for applicants for teaching staff appointments (see https://www. medicin.lu.se/lfn under the heading List of qualifications and CV).

The University applies individual salary setting.

You are welcome to submit a salary proposal in your application.