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Lund University was founded in 1666 and is consistently ranked among the world's leading universities. We have approximately 46,000 students and 8,500 employees in Lund, Helsingborg, and Malmö. We are united in our strive to understand, explain, and improve our world and the conditions of human life.

The Department of Automatic Control at LTH, Lund University, is recruiting an Assistant Professor.

We are seeking candidates for a position as Assistant Professor in Automatic Control with a focus on Cyber-Physical Systems. Control engineering, cyber-physical systems, and embedded real-time systems are central to the analysis, design, and operation of modern technical systems. These fields combine fundamental theory with methods for the implementation, integration, and validation of control and decision algorithms in real-world environments. They play a key role in technological areas where computational and physical processes interact closely, including autonomous vehicles, robotics, industrial automation, smart infrastructure, and interconnected sensor and actuator systems. As society and technology evolve towards increasingly autonomous, distributed, and software-intensive systems, the need for reliable, resource-efficient, secure, and scalable solutions becomes ever more critical, both in research and education.

At the Department of Automatic Control at LTH, research and teaching are conducted in an international environment with approximately 60 staff members, including PhD students, postdocs, and faculty members with broad subject expertise. The department has a strong tradition in system and control theory, including cyber-physical systems, embedded and networked control systems, robotics, and intelligent autonomous systems. The work environment is characterized by an open and ambitious atmosphere, with collaborations both within academia and with industrial partners, nationally and internationally.

Lund University and the Department of Automatic Control welcome applicants with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We view equality and diversity as strengths and assets. The department currently has three female professors, including a Lise Meitner Professor, and one female Assistant Professor. Five of our 15 faculty members have an international background. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are important to us.

We are now looking for an outstanding early-career researcher for a position as Assistant Professor in Automatic Control with a focus on cyber-physical systems. We particularly welcome candidates whose research combines control engineering with areas such as embedded and real-time critical systems, distributed and networked systems, robotics and mechatronics, the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud and edge-based computing infrastructures, or the implementation of control systems in industrially relevant applications. The research may, for example, involve the implementation of control systems in resource-constrained environments, real-time and embedded control architectures, networked and distributed control, sensor and actuator systems, or software and hardware integration for autonomous and cyber-physical systems.

The position involves conducting high-quality international research, developing an independent research profile, contributing to the acquisition of external research funding, as well as teaching and supervising students at undergraduate, advanced, and doctoral levels in control engineering and computer science, including cyber-physical systems, embedded and real-time critical systems, and related areas. A central part of the role is to contribute to teaching that bridges theory and practice through the development of an experimentally oriented learning environment.

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