Associate Professor, AI Technologies and Industrial Applications

id="offer-description" class="ecl-u-type-heading-2 ecl-u-mt-none ecl-u-mb-l">Offer Description The University of Eastern Finland is inviting applications for the post of Associate Professor (Tenure Track) of AI technologies and industrial applications at the Department of Technical Physics of the Faculty of Science, Forestry and Technology on the Kuopio campus. The position will be filled from 1 February 2027 (or as agreed). Please find more information below and submit your application no later than 11 November 2026. Role and salary . At the Department of Technical Physics (website) , research and education are organized around four main focus areas: medical physics and engineering, aerosol physics, computational science and engineering, and materials engineering). The department hosts several research groups and is involved in research conducted in two Research Council of Finland’s Centre of Excellence Programmes and three Research Council of Finland’s Flagship Programmes. The degree programme in Technical Physics was launched in autumn 2023, and the department will launch a new Degree Programme in Pharmaceutical Engineering together with the School of Pharmacy in 2027. The Department of Technical Physics is ambitious and growing unit. The research and teaching field of the Associate Professor is AI technologies and industrial applications. The person to be appointed to the post is required to have expertise and demonstrated achievements in, e.g., AI solutions related to th