Do you want to develop your research and teaching in an environment where collaboration with industry and society is a matter of course? With us, you will work with dedicated colleagues, access to modern research infrastructure and good opportunities to attract external funding. You are given the opportunity to make a real difference for your students, your research and society at large.

Here you have the opportunity to belong to an innovative research environment that develops new knowledge about one of the great societal challenges of our time - to support and understand the digital transformation in companies and in society. At the Information Systems research group at Luleå University of Technology, we have a need to hire a Senior Lecturer in Information Systems with a focus on information security and information classification. The Information Systems research group is part of the Division of Digital Services and Systems, which also includes the Center for Distance-Spanning Technologies and the Center for Security in Society and Critical Infrastructures. The division consists of about 35 employees including researchers, teachers and project managers.

The position as associate senior lecturer is at the Department of Systems and Space Engineering, where we have gathered research in, among other things, computer science, information systems, signals and systems and automation. The department's turnover is approximately SEK 220 million, of which education accounts for half and external funds for research for the other half. The department has well-developed collaborations with research institutes, industrial 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 PhD students and students from all over the world.

Description

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

Duties

The duties relate to research and teaching in information security and information classification. The research within the position is linked to total defense in the northern space and building resilient societies under hybrid threats. Our research in this area is focused on critical (information) infrastructures for socially important activities - from the seabed to space systems - and their relation to the strategic conditions for governance, vulnerability and resilience in the High North.

Based on the unique geographic, infrastructural, economic and demographic conditions in the far north, 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 to enable a future-oriented total defense in a geographically vulnerable region. In addition to research, the project includes participation in a research academy for young researchers, in national and international networks for total defense in the north, and in a collaborative platform for societal resilience that connects academics with public and private stakeholders.

The teaching within the position is linked to our Master's programme in Information Security, and specifically to the topics of information classification, risk analysis and management, and governance and management of information security in organizations.

As an Associate Senior Lecturer, you will be responsible, together with professors and others in the subject, for the development of the subject at undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate level. You will be expected to strengthen our research and education profile and contribute to establishing the field internally both in terms of existing and future programs and as a research area on our campus in Luleå. Specifically important for this lecturer position is a close relationship and collaboration with actors in the region and the surrounding society.

The position means that you will:

• Responsible for developing, teaching and examining courses in information security
• Tutoring students and following the international development of the subject
• Working on research tasks (e.g. applying for external research funding, leading and collaborating in research projects, communicating and disseminating research results through academic publications and presentations of results to different stakeholder groups and other research communication)
• Networking and collaborating with actors in the region and in national and international contexts
• Being active in the research community within your own subject

Accountability

Anyone who has a doctoral degree or a foreign doctoral degree that is considered equivalent to a doctoral degree is eligible for employment as an associate senior lecturer.

Primarily, those who have completed a doctoral degree no more than five years before the application deadline should be considered for employment. If there are special reasons, the doctorate may have been obtained earlier. Special reasons are defined as leave of absence due to illness, parental leave, clinical duties, positions of trust, or similar circumstances.

Evaluation criteria

The following evaluation criteria are applied to the position:

• Scientific competence
• Other evaluation criteria

Other evaluation criteria (weighted equally):

• Ability to lead and develop research initiatives
• Experience in practical research projects related to information security
• Knowledge of risk analysis and management, information security and classification
• Experience in research data management
• Experience in national/international research collaboration
• Experience in teaching in the field of security at undergraduate and/or and/or advanced level as well as educational efforts for other clients
• Ability to collaborate with the surrounding community
• Ability to collaborate within the university
• Knowledge of the conditions in the northern space 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.

Term of employment

This position is for a period of four years.

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Reference number: 3369-2026