Job description

The Division of Decision and Control Systems is currently looking for up to 3 postdocs with a very strong background and interest in networked control systems, mathematics, and modeling. The successful candidates will join a project on developing novel mathematical and computational tools for the fundamental understanding and engineering design of emerging networked control systems, focusing on resilient and secure cyber-physical systems. Professor Henrik Sandberg and Professor Karl Henrik Johansson supervise the work.

The Division of Decision and Control Systems conducts fundamental research in networked control systems, cyber-physical systems, system identification, and transport systems. Industrial projects involve partners such as ABB, Ericsson, and Scania. A large part of the research is conducted in EU-projects in collaboration with European industry and universities. We have an extensive academic network and collaborate with researchers at Caltech, MIT, UC Berkeley, Stanford, among others.

For more information, see www.kth.se/dcs

What we offer

• A position at a leading technical university that generates knowledge and skills for a sustainable future
• Engaged and ambitious colleagues along with a creative, international and dynamic working environment
• Help to relocate and be settled in Sweden and at KTH

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Qualifications

Requirements

• A doctoral degree or an equivalent foreign degree. This eligibility requirement must be met no later than the time the employment decision is made.
• Significant, documented research expertise in networked control systems, cyber-physical security, and/or game theory.
• Strongly motivated, able to work independently, and with very good collaborative abilities.

Preferred qualifications

• A doctoral degree or an equivalent foreign degree, obtained within the last three years prior to the application deadline
• Teaching abilities and documented supervision of student work is commendable.
• Awareness of diversity and equal opportunity issues, with specific focus on gender equality is commendable.

Great emphasis will be placed on personal competency

Trade union representatives

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To apply for the position

Log into KTH’s recruitment system in order to apply for this position. You are the main responsible to ensure that your application is complete according to the ad.

The application must include:

• CV including relevant professional experience and knowledge.
• Copy of diplomas and grades from your previous university studies. Translations into English or Swedish if the original documents have not been issued in any of these languages.
• Brief account of why you want to conduct research, your academic interests and how they relate to your previous studies and future goals. Max two pages long.
• Three scientific publications relevant to the position.
• Contact information for at least three reference persons.

Your complete application must be received at KTH no later than the last day of application, midnight CET/CEST (Central European Time/Central European Summer Time).

About the employment

The position offered is for, at the most, two years.

A position as a postdoctoral fellow is a time-limited qualified appointment focusing mainly on research, intended as a first career step after a dissertation.

Others

The position may include security-sensitive activities. To become authorized, you therefore need to pass a possible security check.

Striving towards gender equality, diversity and equal conditions is both a question of quality for KTH and a given part of our values.

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Disclaimer: In case of discrepancy between the Swedish original and the English translation of the job announcement, the Swedish version takes precedence.