Engineering Jobs in Ballerup, Denmark (Now Hiring) — 20 open

If you are a lighthouse, wanting to impact your field, the academic practice, and looking for a new foundation for driving your academic agenda and contributing to a new generation of academics DTU Engineering Technology offers you a professorship at the forefront of the implementation and impact agenda.

DTU Engineering Technology invites applications for a Full Professor in Digital Technologies in Health with focus on designing new trusted technologies and systems with respect to multisensory experiences.  The position is anchored in the Energy Technology and Computer Science section pursuing the ambition of addressing the three key societal challenges: trusted tech, strengthening the robustness of critical infrastructures, and promoting social inclusion and reintegration through technology. This is pursued through a distinctly interdisciplinary approach, where collaboration is the foundation. 

We prioritize working together, engaging each other in our work, and we all benefit from our joint strong collaboration with industry. We work in the intersection of energy technology, computer science, and health technology, with a focus on developing secure, intelligent, and societally relevant solutions that create value for both industry and society. This position will strengthen our profile with focus on interaction and multisensory experiences through digital technologies.

Responsibilities and qualifications
Your overall focus will be to establish and lead our research in implementing digital technologies in health. You are expected to strengthen our competencies in spatial audio and multisensory systems for health technology, contributing to digital engineering and human-centered system design. You will develop advanced immersive technologies with societal impact for better and more inclusive lives. To do so, you will work closely with interdisciplinary colleagues internally at the department and at DTU, as well as you will embody our departmental focus and trademark of a close practice collaboration. We expect you to bring new clinical and industrial partners as well as international to our ecosystem. 

The position emphasizes translation of research into practical applications, and we expect you to be able to develop research infrastructures for immersive and ecologically valid evaluation environments along with academic and technical administrative colleagues. You will provide leadership and shape long-term research directions within immersive health technologies.

Your primary tasks will be to:

• Lead research in the implementation of digital technologies in health, with perspectives on the construction sector, the production sector, and the life science and health sector.
• Lead research in spatial audio and multisensory experiences for health applications
• Lead the development of teaching and also teach within the BEng Health Tech study program
• Engage students in lab activities through teaching, research collaboration, and extracurricular activities
• Lead interdisciplinary projects with academic, clinical, and industry partners – and students
• Be a thought leader and exemplify how to take academic citizenship with colleagues as well as students
• Contribute to departmental and institutional strategic development

You are expected to take a lead role in teaching at the BEng, BSc, MSc, and PhD levels.

DTU employs two working languages: Danish and English. You are expected to be fluent in at least one of these languages, and in time are expected to master both.

You will be assessed against the responsibilities and qualifications stated above and the following general criteria:

• Documented experience and quality of teaching and curriculum development
• Research impact and experience, funding track record and research vision
• International impact and experience 
• Societal impact
• Innovativeness, including commercialization and collaboration with industry
• Leadership, collaboration, and interdisciplinary skills
• Communication skills

Salary and terms of employment
The appointment will be based on the collective agreement with the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations. The allowance will be agreed upon with the relevant union. 

Further information 
Further information may be obtained from the Head of Department, Malene Kirstine Holst, tel.: +45 93 5115 71.

You can read more about DTU Engineering Technology at www.engtech.dtu.dk

If you are applying from abroad, you may find useful information on working in Denmark and at DTU at DTU – Moving to Denmark. 

Application procedure
Your complete online application must be submitted no later than 29 July 2026 (23:59 Danish time). 

Applications must be submitted as one PDF file containing all materials to be given consideration. To apply, please open the link "Apply now", fill out the online application form, and attach all your materials in English in one PDF file. The file must include:

• Application (cover letter) addressed to the President
• Vision for teaching and research 
• CV including employment history, list of publications indicating scientific highlights, H-index and ORCID (see http://orcid.org/)
• Teaching portfolio including documentation of teaching experience
• Academic Diplomas (MSc/PhD)

You can learn more about the recruitment process here.

Applications received after the deadline will not be considered.

All interested candidates irrespective of age, gender, disability, race, religion or ethnic background are encouraged to apply. As DTU works with research in critical technology, which is subject to special rules for security and export control, open-source background checks may be conducted on qualified candidates for the position.

DTU – For the benefit of society since 1829
DTU is one of Europe's leading elite technical universities. Through research and education at an international top level, we create solutions to the major societal challenges of our time and help secure Europe's global leadership in sustainable technological development. Since Hans Christian Ørsted founded DTU almost 200 years ago, our mission has remained the same: We develop and create value through the natural and technical sciences for the benefit of society. DTU has 13,800 students, 1,600 PhD students, and 6,500 employees. We work in an international environment and have an inclusive, stimulating, and informal work culture. DTU has campuses in all parts of Denmark and in Greenland and collaborates with the best universities around the world.