Sustainability Professorship in Quantitative Environmental Assessment

2 weeks ago


Kongens Lyngby, Lyngby-Tårbæk Kommune, Denmark DTU - Technical University of Denmark Full time
About the Job

The Department of Environmental and Resource Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) is seeking a highly qualified candidate to fill a full-time professorship position in quantitative environmental assessment. The successful candidate will join a team of international front-runners in research pertaining to quantitative, life cycle based, and absolute sustainability assessment.

The position involves advancing research in life-cycle-based method development for assessing quantitatively the environmental sustainability of products, technologies, and systems. The candidate will also have a strong teaching component, where they will co-lead a course designed to introduce quantitative sustainability to all master students at DTU.

Research Areas of Focus
  • Life cycle impact assessment methods, including development of characterization models for one or more environmental impact categories
  • Prospective life cycle assessment, including building life cycle inventory datasets and implementation of temporal differentiation into LCI and LCIA
  • Macroscale sustainability assessment, with methodologies, methods, models, and data for assessing large-scale systems
  • Integration of multi-region environmentally enhanced input-output statistics into methods for sustainability assessment
  • Integration of absolute sustainability or science-based target perspective into sustainability assessments
About the Team

The QSA Section at DTU has over 16 years of experience as the most publishing and cited university worldwide in the research field of life cycle assessment. We host/co-host two research Centres directed to support sustainability assessment, providing opportunities for collaboration with researchers and stakeholders across sectors.



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