Associate Senior Lecturer in Terrestrial Microbial Ecology
Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet / Högskolejobb / Uppsala
2025-09-29
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Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology
SLU is a world-class university in the life and environmental sciences, with a vision to play a key role in the development of a sustainable life, based on science and education. Here, the Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, located in Uppsala, contributes with research and teaching focused on fundamental and applied aspects of interactions between microorganisms and plants, as well as mycology, microbial ecology and evolution. Plant pathology, biodiversity and nutrient turnover in agricultural and forest ecosystems are central areas. The department offers courses at undergraduate, advanced and postgraduate levels in biology as well as soil, environmental, forestry and agricultural sciences within several programs, for example Agronomy, Soil, Water and Environment, Plant Biology for Sustainable Production and Forest Ecology and Sustainable Management, but also provides individual courses in mycology, nature conservation and microbiology.
The Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology offers a stimulating, international research environment. For Soil Microbiology research group, we are now looking for an assistant senior lecturer who combines computational research with experimental validation for understanding and predicting the ecology and importance of microorganism in soil. The group constitutes a strong research environment and conducts basic research on the ecology of microorganisms in terrestrial ecosystems with applications in sustainable agriculture. The research is carried out in collaboration with other departments at SLU, primarily Soil and Environment, Ecology, and Plant Production Ecology. There are also collaborations with national and international research colleagues as well as with various stakeholders and society at large.
The department is part of the SLU Biocentre, a research environment with modern infrastructure, including a plant cultivation facility. At SLU there are agricultural field research stations and a large number of long-term agricultural experiments with data series, and SLU also coordinates the national infrastructure SITES for terrestrial and limnological field research. Uppsala is one of the major hubs for the national infrastructure SciLifeLab, which offers expertise and advanced technology platforms in the life sciences and bioinformatics. The department has its own computing cluster and also has access to national computing resources through NAISS.
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Subject area
The subject encompasses terrestrial microbial ecology with a focus where computational and experimental research is combined to increase the knowledge about the ecology of microorganisms and their importance for the functioning of soil ecosystems.
Duties
The associate senior lecturer is expected to develop their own research within the subject area. Research should be carried out in close collaboration with colleagues at the department and SLU, as well as through national and international collaborations.
In addition, the candidate should within the subject area
• apply for external research funding in competition and publish scientific articles
• contribute to the development of a research group within the subject area
• participate in and initiate interdisciplinary collaborations where relevant
• serve as co-supervisor of PhD students
• teach at basic and advanced levels, including doctoral level
• undertake pedagogical training
• collaborate with relevant stakeholders and society at large
Swedish and English are used in parallel at the department. The holder of the position should be able to perform the majority of their tasks in English. However, as a public authority, the university has Swedish as its main language according to the requirements of the Language Act and the holder of the position must be able to communicate in Swedish within four years of beginning the position. The department will provide support with language learning.
Eligibility
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Assessment criteria
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Application deadline
2026-01-12
Place of work
Uppsala
Extent:
100%
Form of Employment
The employment is limited in accordance with the Higher Education Act. A position as associate senior lecturer is a qualifying employment that constitutes the first step in an academic career at SLU. An associate senior lecturer has the right during their employment to apply for promotion to senior lecturer (UK) or associate professor (US) on the basis of criteria established when the position as associate senior lecturer was announced.
Swedish "biträdande universitetslektor", a tenured position approximately equivalent to Associate senior lecturer (UK) or Assistant professor (US). The applicant who is offered this employment at SLU will be employed as Associate senior lecturer.
This position offers the vibrant research climate at SLU. The benefits of the position include Swedish family health care provisions, parenting support including generous paid leave of absence policies that allow both parents to care for newborns and toddlers. Sweden has a well-established pre-school structure as well as an educational system that provides no-cost education through university studies. Uppsala has a rich history and culture and is located in the greater Stockholm region, which is an academic and cultural hub. Find out more facts and stories about Sweden at
www.sweden.seStarting date
By agreement.
Application
It is desirable that the application is written in English, because the applications will be evaluated by expert advisers both in Sweden and abroad.
For the guidance of your application, there is SLU's appointment procedure for teachers at SLU and General assessment criteria for the appointment of teachers, which you can read here.
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Arbetsgivare Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet (org.nr 202100-2817),
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Kontakt Head of Department
Nils Högberg
nils.hogberg@slu.se +46 (0)18-67 18 75 Jobbnummer 9531393