Senior Lecturer of Toxicology

• with focus on education and research

Join us in developing education of the highest quality

The Institute of Environmental Medicine (IMM) conducts research in toxicology, occupational and environmental medicine, epidemiology, and physiology, with the aim to clarify how environmental and lifestyle factors affect human health. IMM educates students, doctoral students and professionals in areas including toxicology, work and health, epidemiology, and biostatistics, and is responsible for the Master’s Programme in Toxicology and the Master’s Programme in Work and Health at Karolinska Institutet.

IMM is a national expert body in environmental medicine. Researchers at IMM serve as scientific advisors to authorities and other decision makers and participate in national and international expert groups.

Description of the subject area

Toxicology is a field that investigates the mechanisms and toxic effects of chemical substances with the aim of identifying risks to humans and contributing to sustainable development. Toxicological health risk assessment deals with the scientific methodology used to evaluate the risks to humans from exposure to chemical substances, such as those found in pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, pesticides, and environmental contaminants in food, water, and air.

Toxicological health risk assessment involves the use and evaluation of various types of data from toxicological studies in animals, animal-free cell-based and computational models, as well as human studies. These data are analyzed with regard to factors such as relevance, reliability, dose-response relationships, and other considerations, and are then integrated to establish health-based guidance values and assess health risks.

Today, there is a growing shift away from toxicological studies in animals, with novel methodologies for toxicological health risk assessment being developed instead that use mechanistic data from cell-based and computational models. These are integrated through so-called Adverse Outcome Pathways (AOPs) that describe the relationship between mechanistic data and toxic effects. These new methods, known as New Approach Methodologies (NAMs), form a fundamental component of next-generation toxicology.

Your mission

You will be the course responsible teacher and examiner for the course Next-generation Toxicology within the Master's Programme in Toxicology, teach in the course and in other courses within the programme, and carry out pedagogical development work in courses within the programme. You will also be the course responsible teacher and examiner for doctoral courses and executive and professional education in toxicological health risk assessment.

You will independently conduct and lead research in toxicology, primarily within novel methodologies for toxicological health risk assessment that utilise, for example, New Approach Methodologies (NAMs), which form a fundamental component of next-generation toxicology.

You will participate to IMM’s mission as national expert body in environmental medicine accoding to Ordinance (1994:1244) on the Institute of Environmental Medicine, specifically within toxicological health risk assessment, by among other things providing authorities with scientifically substantiated evidence.

Eligibility requirements

To be eligible for an employment as Senior Lecturer with focus on education and research, in addition to holding a Degree of Doctor, PhD, or having equivalent scientific expertise, the applicant must have demonstrated excellent pedagogical skills and very good scientific skills

For employment as Senior Lecturer at Karolinska Institutet, the eligibility requirements are stated in the Instructions regarding the Appointment Procedure and these are applied in relation to the subject area of the established recruitment profile:

See the instructions regarding the Appointment Procedure for Teachers at Karolinska Institutet.

Further eligibility requirements

It is a requirement that you have completed 10 weeks of courses on teaching in higher education, as indicated in the recommendations of the Association of Swedish Higher Education Institution.

Assessment

Assessment criteria

The Senior Lectureship has a focus on education and research. The assessment will weight qualifications as follows: scientific skills (2), pedagogical skills (3), leadership and collaboration skills (2).

For employment as Senior Lecturer at Karolinska Institutet, the eligibility requirements and assessment criteria stated in the Instructions regarding the Appointment Procedure are applied in relation to established profile of employment.

See the instructions regarding the Appointment Procedure for Teachers at Karolinska Institutet.

It is furthermore meritorious that you have demonstrated

• Experience as a course responsible teacher and examiner on a course at advanced level as well as at the doctoral education level
• Experience of teaching within the field of toxicological health risk assessment
• Experience of research on novel methodologies for toxicological health risk assessment
• Experience of assisting authorities by providing scientifically substantiated evidence within toxicological health risk assessment

After an overall assessment of the expertise and merits of the applicants in relation to the subject area, Karolinska Institutet will determine which of them has the best potential to contribute to a positive development of the activities at KI.

What do we offer?

A creative and inspiring environment with wide-ranging expertise and interests. Karolinska Institutet is one of the world's leading medical universities. Here, we conduct successful medical research and hold the largest range of medical education in Sweden. At KI, you get to meet researchers working with a wide range of specialisms and methods, giving you ample opportunity to exchange knowledge and experience with the various scientific fields within medicine and health. It is the crossover collaborations, which have pushed KI to where it is today, at the forefront of global research. Several of the people you meet in healthcare are educated at KI. A close relationship with the health care providers is important for creating groundbreaking top quality education and research. Karolinska Institutet is also a state university, which entitles you to several benefits through our collective agreement.

Location: Solna

Institute of Environmental Medicine (IMM) | Karolinska Institutet

Application

Your application must contain the following documents: a cover letter as well as a resumé and a qualifications portfolio including a description of your research plan, both presented in accordance with Karolinska Institutet’s template (http://ki.se/qualificationsportfolio) . You may change or add to your application at any time up to and including the application deadline date. After the deadline, the process closes, and no amendment or addition can be made to your application.

The applications will be reviewed by external reviewers, most often both national and international. For that reason, we prefer that the documents are in English.

The application is to be submitted through the Varbi recruitment system.

KI applies individual and differentiated salary setting in accordance with our collective agreements RALS and RALS-T

We look forward to receiving your application!

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