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Associate Professor (non-tenured) in Achaeometry at SDU in Odense
Summary
The non-tenured Associate Professor will contribute to CHART’s cultural heritage research, including the CIPP Center’s work on parchment, paper and the Dead Sea Scrolls. The role also includes teaching, mentoring, collaboration and developing independent research.
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Opportunity summary
Employment type: Full time. Requisition: 4336. A position as non-tenured Associate Professor in archaeometry is available from 1 May 2027 until 31 March 2030 at the Department of Physics Chemistry and Pharmacy, Faculty of Science, SDU in Odense. About the research group and the project The research group at which this position is posted is called CHART (Cultural Heritage and Archaeometric Research Team).
Cultural Heritage and archaeometric research deal with investigations of samples originating from all sorts of culturally important artefacts: those procured by archaeologists in excavations, medieval buildings, handmade artefacts of all kinds, pieces of art, written materials. Only, the objects must have survived and be preserved today to some tangible degree.
The study of cultural heritage is not exclusively for the humanities. In the last four or five decades, natural sciences have been increasingly involved in untangling the events of the past by studying cultural heritage objects to an ever-increasing degree of complexity. In CHART we take up the challenge of investigating cultural heritage objects on an international level using chemistry and physics. We a1 …
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