Associate professor in Markets & Flexibility for the Energy Transition

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The Department of Electric Energy (IEL) at NTNU invites applications for a 100% permanent Associate Professor position within the Electricity Markets and Energy System Planning (EMESP) research group. The position has a strong thematic focus on electricity market design, flexibility utilisation, and market–grid simulation and optimisation, supporting the transition to sustainable and highly electrified energy systems.

The ongoing energy transition is fundamentally reshaping electricity systems through high shares of variable renewable energy, electrification of transport and industry, distributed energy resources, and increasing system uncertainty. These developments require new market designs and analytical frameworks that can efficiently mobilise flexibility across time horizons and coordinate market outcomes with grid constraints. Novel computational and modelling frameworks are therefore required to analyse and support this evolution.

The position is particularly suited for candidates with a research profile aligned with quantitative market analysis, flexibility valuation, and optimisation-based market and grid simulations, including long-term and short-term decision-making in electricity markets. The successful candidate is expected to strengthen NTNU’s leading role in market-based approaches to system flexibility, in close collaboration with industry, system operators, and international research partners. 

Your immediate line manager will be the Head of the research group. 

Duties of the position

Research
• Conduct internationally recognised research in electricity market operations and flexibility utilisation, with a strong emphasis on quantitative optimisation and programming-based analysis of future energy systems.
• Develop and apply optimisation and simulation models for analysing electricity markets, including long-term planning models, short-term market clearing, and valuation of flexible resources.
• Initiate and lead externally funded research projects in collaboration with industry, TSOs/DSOs, regulatory authorities, and national and international research partners.

Teaching
• Teach and further develop courses at bachelor’s, master’s, and PhD level in areas such as:
• Electricity market analysis
• Flexibility markets and congestion management
• Optimisation methods for energy markets
• Contribute to pedagogical development and innovative teaching methods, including modelling- and coding-based learning.

Supervision and academic service
• Supervise and co-supervise bachelor’s, master’s, and PhD students.
• Participate in PhD committees, scientific committees, and other academic service tasks at the Department and Faculty.
• Contribute to dissemination of research results to industry, policymakers, and the broader public.

Study programme Leadership
Contribute to the development and leadership of the Norwegian Study Programme Master’s in Energy and the Environment, ensuring high-quality academic delivery, curriculum development, coordination of educational activities, and continuous improvement aligned with departmental and faculty strategies.

Interdisciplinary collaboration within IEL and across NTNU is strongly encouraged.

Required qualifications 

You must have thefollowing qualifications required for the position of associate professor:

• Your PhD must be equivalent to a Norwegian doctoral degree in the field of planning and analysis of power and energy systems with a focus on energy system flexibility. Applicants with a different background (e.g. economics) but with solid experience in required fields of expertise will also be considered.
• Documented competence in relevant educational theory and practice based on training or on teaching and supervision. If this cannot be documented, you are required to complete an approved course in university teaching within two years of commencement. NTNU offers qualifying courses.
• Have strong communication and collaboration skills in Scandinavian language-minimum Norwegian B2 level.

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You must document relevant basic competence in teaching and supervision at a university/higher education-level, as referenced in the NTNUs guidelines for academic positions. If this cannot be documented, you will be required to complete an approved course in university pedagogy within two years of commencement. NTNU offers qualifying courses.

New employees who do not speak a Scandinavian language by appointment is required, within three years, to demonstrate skills in Norwegian or another Scandinavian language equivalent to level B2of the course for Norwegian for speakers of other languages at the Department of Language and Literature at NTNU. 

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with problem-based learning and the use of programming and modelling based teaching methods
• Competence in programming and model development, demonstrated through the development and application of computational, optimisation, and simulation models for energy system and market analysis in both research and teaching.
• Publication track record showing internationally competitive research in the relevant field
• Ability to supervise bachelor's, master's and Doctoral candidates in the relevant field
• An academic profile that demonstrates relevant research activity at national and international level, and the potential to make a future impact.
• Motivation and potential for academic leadership

Personal qualities

• Have strong communication and collaboration skills
• Challenges the status quo and promotes new initiatives
• Develops effective, sensible and practical solutions to problems
• Is positive and enthusiastic, even in difficult situations

Emphasis will be placed on personal and interpersonal qualities.

We offer 

• exciting and challenging tasks in a strong international academic environment 
• an open and inclusive work environment with dedicated colleagues 
• favourable terms in the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund 
• employee benefits 

Application Process

You can find more information about working at NTNU and the application process here.

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Salary and conditions

As a Associate Professor / Professor (code 1011 /1013) you are normally paid from gross NOK 690 000 – NOK 870 000 per annum before tax, depending on qualifications and seniority. As required by law, 2% of this salary will be deducted and paid into the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund.

The engagement is to be made in accordance withthe regulations in force concerning State Employees and Civil Servants, and the acts relating to Control of the Export of Strategic Goods, Services and Technology. Candidates who by assessment of the application and attachment are seen to conflict with the criteria in the latter law will be prohibited from recruitment to NTNU.  

After the appointment you must assume that there may be changes in the area of work.

For the necessary professional and social interaction, it is a prerequisite that you are physically present and available to the institution on a daily basis.

About the application

Your application and supporting documentation must be in English. 

The attachments (including a description of your scientific work) must accompany the application as these documents form the basis of the application assessment. 

Please note: the application will only be assessed on the basis of the information we have received by the application deadline.Therefore, make sure that your application clearly shows how your skills and experience meet the criteria described above. The application and all attachments must be sent electronically via Jobbnorge.no.If you are invited to an interview, you must bring certified copies of certificates and diplomas upon request.

If, for any reason, you have taken a career break or have had an atypical career and wish to disclose this in your application, the selection committee will take this into account, recognizing that the quantity of your research may be reduced as a result.

Your application must include:

• CV, certificates and diplomas, including a list of publications, invited talks and popular science articles
• Documentation of Norwegian language proficiency
• Academic works - published or unpublished - that you would like to be considered in the assessment (up to 10 works). Please include a description of the academic works that you regard as most relevant and that you particularly want to be taken into account in the assessment
• Research plan in the field of the advertised position (max 3 pages)
• A teaching portfolio, in which your teaching competence is compiled and presented systematically, (See guidelines for applicants: Documentation of educational competence)
• Experience, plans and details of your project management skills
• Names and contact information for three relevant referees

It is important that you both document and reflect on your competence. You are encouraged to use the NTNUs competence matrix as a guide for  documentation of your competence.

Joint work will also be considered. If it is difficult to identify your specific input to a joint project, you must include evidence of your contributions.

In the evaluation of which candidate is best qualified, emphasis will be placed on education, experience and personal and interpersonal qualities. Motivation, ambitions, and potential will also count in the assessment of the candidates. Our assessment of the pedagogical skills will be based on documented pedagogical material, forms of presentation in your academic works, teaching experience, PhD, and Masters supervision, and any other relevant pedagogical background. Both quality and scope will be taken into consideration, and an open scientific practice will be recognized.

NTNU is obliged by the evaluation criteria for research quality in accordance with The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment – DORA and the obligations in the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment ( CoARA) on responsible assessment of research and recognition of a wider range of academic contributions to science and society. This means that we will pay particular attention to the quality and academic range demonstrated by your scientific work to date. We will also pay attention to research leadership and participation in research projects. Your scientific work from the last five years will be given the most weight.

Your application will be considered by an expert committee. Candidates of interest will be invited to an interview, and to deliver a trial teaching session.

General information

Diversity is a strength, and at NTNU we aim to be an employer that reflects the diversity in society and that makes use of the potential of the population's collective skills. Our vision is Knowledge for a better world and our values ​​are creative, critical, constructive and respectful. We believe that an organization that is equal, diverse, and gender-balanced is essential for us to achieve our goals.

We strive to attract employees with different skills, life experiences and perspectives to contribute to even better problem solving of our societal mission in research and education.  

If you think this position is relevant and interesting, we encourage you to apply, regardless of gender, functional ability, and cultural background, or whether you have been out of work for a period of time.

At NTNU we want to increase the proportion of women in scientific positions. We have a number of measures to promote equality. (delete if not applicable)

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As an employee at NTNU, you must continually maintainand improve your professional development and be flexible regardingany organizational changes.

A public list of applicants with name, age, job title and municipality of residence is prepared after the application deadline. If you want to reserve yourself from entry on the public applicant list, this must be justified. Assessment will be made in accordance with current legislation. You will be notified if the reservation is not accepted.

For the sake of transparency, candidates will be given expert evaluationsof their own and other candidates. As an applicant you are considered part of the process and are stipulated by rules of confidentiality. 

If you have any questions regarding the position, please contact Head of Department Anngjerd Pleym, e- mail anngjed.pleym@ntnu.no  

If you have questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact HR Consultant Terese Olausson, e- mail terese.olausson@ntnu.no

Application deadline:13.03.2026