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.

The position as Associate Senior Lecturer is at the Department of Systems and Space Engineering, where we have gathered research in areas such as computer science, information systems, signals and systems, and automation.

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 focuses 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

For this position, the term of employment is four years.

Promotion to Senior Lecturer

An Associate Senior Lecturer shall, upon application, be promoted to Senior Lecturer and a position until further notice. If he/she is qualified for an appointment as a senior lecturer and is assessed as suitable for such an appointment according to the assessment criteria below.

In the assessment, the associate senior lecturer is required to have completed a higher education pedagogy course equivalent to 7.5 credits or otherwise acquired equivalent knowledge.

During the period of employment, the assistant professor must also independently, to a considerable extent and with high quality, contribute to the university's research and demonstrate good teaching skills.

Information

For a complete job advertisement, please see ltu.se/ledigajobb. The position is located in Luleå. Access according to agreement.

This position may be placed in a security class in accordance with the Security Protection Act (2018:585)

For further information, please contact: Acting Head of Subject Diana Chronéer (+46) 920-492037 mailto:diana.chroneer@ltu.seavdelningschef Johan Wenngren (+46) 920-492059 mailto:johan.wenngren@ltu.se

Faculty representative:

SACO-S Diana Chroneer, 0920-49 2037 mailto:diana.chroneer@ltu.se

OFR-S Marika Vesterberg, 0920-49 1721 mailto:marika.vesterberg@ltu.se

Application

For application see complete job advertisement at ltu.se/ledigajobb.Last day to apply: June 18, 2026Reference number: 3369-2026