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Do you want to develop your research and teaching in an environment where collaboration with industry and society is second nature? With us, you will work with engaged colleagues, have access to modern research infrastructure, and good opportunities to attract external funding. You will be given the space to make a real difference for your students, your research, and society at large.

Here you have the opportunity to join an innovative research environment that develops new knowledge about one of today's major societal challenges – supporting and understanding the digital transformation in businesses and society. At the Research Group in Information Systems at Luleå University of Technology, we have a need to hire an Assistant Professor in Information Systems with a focus on information security and information classification. The Research Group in Information Systems is part of the Division for Digital Services and Systems, which also includes the Centre for Distance-spanning Technology and the Centre for Security in Society and Critical Infrastructures. The division consists of approximately 35 employees, including researchers, teachers, and project managers.

The appointment as Assistant Professor is at the Department of Systems and Space Technology, where we have gathered research in areas such as computer science, information systems, signals and systems, and automation. The department has a turnover of approximately 220 million SEK, with education accounting for half and external research funding for the other half. The department has well-developed collaborations with research institutes, industry partners, universities, and other authorities in both research projects and student projects. The environment at the department is open, dynamic, and brings together researchers from about twenty different nationalities, as well as doctoral students and students from all over the world.

Subject Description

Information Systems focuses on the design and use of information technology in relation to people, organizations, and societies.

Job Responsibilities

The responsibilities involve research and teaching within information security and information classification. The research in this position is linked to total defense in the northern domain and building resilient societies under hybrid threats. Our research in this area is directed towards critical (information) infrastructure for societal vital functions – from the seabed to space systems – and their relationship to the strategic prerequisites for governance, vulnerability, and resilience in the northern domain.

Based on the unique geographical, infrastructural, economic, and demographic conditions in the far northern part of the world, the work is expected to contribute to knowledge development on how critical infrastructure and governance systems can be designed and coordinated to withstand hybrid threats and armed conflicts, thereby enabling a future-oriented total defense in a geographically exposed region. In addition to research, the role includes participation in a research academy for young researchers, in national and international networks for total defense in the north, and in a collaboration platform for societal resilience that connects academics with public and private stakeholders.

The teaching within the scope of the position relates to our master's program in information security, and specifically to the subjects of information classification, risk analysis and management, and governance and management of information security in organizations.

As an Assistant Professor, you will, together with professors and others in the subject, be responsible for the development of the subject at the undergraduate, advanced, and doctoral education levels. You are expected to strengthen our research and education profile and contribute to establishing the area internally, both in the form of existing and future courses and as a research area on our campus in Luleå. Specifically important for this professorship is a close relationship and collaboration with actors in the region and the surrounding society.

The position entails that you will:

• Be responsible for developing, teaching, and examining courses in information security
• Supervise students and follow the international development of the subject
• Work on research tasks (e.g., applying for external research funding, leading and collaborating in research projects, communicating and disseminating research results via academic publications and presentations of results to various stakeholder groups and other research communication)
• Network and collaborate with actors in the region and in national and international contexts
• Be active in the research community within your own subject

Qualifications

Eligible for appointment as an Assistant Professor is someone who has completed a doctoral degree or has a foreign doctoral degree considered equivalent to a doctoral degree.

In the first instance, the candidate should have completed their doctoral degree no more than five years before the application deadline. If there are special reasons, the doctoral degree may have been completed earlier. Special reasons refer to leave due to illness, parental leave, clinical service, trust-based positions, or similar circumstances.

Evaluation Criteria

The following evaluation criteria apply for the position:

• Scientific skill
• Other evaluation criteria

Other evaluation criteria (weighted equally):

• Ability to lead and develop research initiatives
• Experience from practice-oriented research projects related to information security
• Knowledge of risk analysis and management, information security, and classification
• Experience in research data management
• Experience from national/international research collaboration
• Experience in teaching in the security area at the undergraduate and/or advanced level, as well as educational efforts for other users
• Ability to collaborate with the surrounding society
• Ability to collaborate within the university
• Knowledge of the conditions in the northern domain and continuity planning in the public sector
• Ability to obtain external funding for research and development
• Good communication skills in Swedish and English, both orally and in writing.

Employment Period

This employment is for a period of four years.

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Reference number: 3369–2026