Adjunct professor
KTH strives for the highest international quality in both research and education. One essential factor in maintaining and developing this high quality is understanding society’s scientific knowledge needs and knowing how research results can be applied in practice.
Adjunct professors at KTH act as bridge builders between the university and the surrounding society and provide interfaces in addition to existing cooperation on partnership projects, commissioned research or research centre creation.
Adjunct professors also help to supplement KTH’s resources. Many adjunct professors are actively involved in seeking external research funding, and provide KTH researchers with access to their home organisation’s labs, equipment and data.
Adjunct professors are assigned to work at one of KTH’s schools where they have direct contact with cutting edge scientific development as well as educators and students.
Who can become an adjunct professor?
Adjunct professors are well-qualified individuals who bring specialist knowledge, experience and networks to support research/third-cycle education and undergraduate education at KTH.
They work part time at KTH, usually one day a week. Normally an adjunct professor’s full salary is paid by the principal employer. The position is a temporary one but can be renewed following an evaluation. The total employment term may not exceed 12 years. An adjunct professor may work within research or education. In many cases they do both. Many of the adjunct professors also supervise doctoral students.
Most of the adjunct professors have a PhD and many have a docent qualification. They are either specialists – normally active at an operational level in R&D in their home organisation, or are generalists and senior managers coming to KTH from an operational management position. Their position as an adjunct professor is, in many cases, a natural next step in an already well-established partnership with a research team or department at KTH. In other cases the invitation may come from KTH’s administration or an external funding source.
Contact
Rebecca Hollertz, rhollert@kth.se , 08-7907844