Senior Researcher in interactions between fisheries, anthropogenic pressures, and endangered, threatened and protected species (ETPS)

As Senior Researcher, you will join our Section for Ecosystem Based Marine Management in Lyngby, where 35 employees work to advance interdisciplinary research and improve our knowledge of marine ecosystems and their management. The section offers colleagues with a variety of backgrounds and personalities working together in an internationally recognized and highly dynamic scientific environment.

Responsibilities and qualifications
Your employment will strengthen the department’s competences within interactions between fisheries and marine mammals including bycatch, competition for forage fish stocks, disturbances from vessels, gear entanglement, and noise. You will work with our excellent team consisting of academic colleagues and public and industrial partners in Denmark and internationally. Your primary tasks will be to:

• Advance research on interactions between fisheries, marine mammals, and other anthropogenic pressures and present the achievements in peer-reviewed publications, strategic assessments and international conferences and expert meetings.
• Lead and contribute to the preparation of national and international grant proposals.
• Contribute to teaching and supervision of PhD, Bachelor and Master students
• Establish and strengthen collaborations with universities, national and international government agencies, fisheries sectors, NGOs, and international research and advice networks.

Innovate monitoring approaches, analytical methods, and modelling frameworks related to marine mammal ecology and human impacts.

You must contribute to teaching at the Department. DTU employs two working languages: Danish and English. You are expected to be fluent in at least one of these languages, and in time are expected to master both.

As a formal qualification you must hold a PhD degree (or equivalent) as well as academic qualifications equivalent to those obtained by holding a position as a researcher or postdoc. To be appointed as a senior researcher, you must have completed a didactic/pedagogic education. If you do not have the necessary education, then it is possible to complete this requirement within a period of two years of appointment.

Specific qualifications include:

• Strong skills in acoustic data acoustic data analysis and other types of quantitative and statistical data analyses and programming
• In depth knowledge of marine mammal behavioral ecology in the North Atlantic and Arctic, experience with marine field work and estimation of fisheries interactions and bycatch
• Experience with stakeholder contact and involvement
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills

You will be assessed against the responsibilities and qualifications stated above and the following general criteria:

• Research experience
• Experience and quality of teaching
• Research vision and potential
• International impact and experience
• Societal impact
• Innovativeness, including commercialization and collaboration with industry
• Leadership, collaboration, and interdisciplinary skills
• Communication skills

Salary and terms of employment
The appointment will be based on the collective agreement with the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations. The allowance will be agreed upon with the relevant union.

You can read more about career paths at DTU here.

Starting date is 1st of August 2026. The position is a full-time position.

Further information
Further information may be obtained from Lotte Kindt-Larsen at loki@aqua.dtu.dk, or tel.: +45 35 88 33 94.

You can read more about “the Department” at aqua.dtu.dk/english/about/organization/scientific-sections/section-for-ecosystem-based-marine-management

If you are applying from abroad, you may find useful information on working in Denmark and at DTU at DTU – Moving to Denmark. 

Application procedure
Please submit your online application no later than 7 April 2026 (23:59 Danish time).

Applications must be submitted as one PDF file containing all materials to be given consideration. To apply, please open the link “Apply now”, fill out the online application form, and attach all your materials in English in one PDF file. The file must include:

• Application (cover letter)
• Vision for teaching and research
• CV including employment history, list of publications indicating scientific highlights, H-index and ORCID (see http://orcid.org/)
• Teaching portfolio including documentation of teaching experience
• Academic Diplomas (MSc/PhD)

You can learn more about the recruitment process here.

Applications received after the deadline will not be considered.

All interested candidates irrespective of age, gender, disability, race, religion or ethnic background are encouraged to apply. As DTU works with research in critical technology, which is subject to special rules for security and export control, open-source background checks may be conducted on qualified candidates for the position.