Professor in Cyber Security at the University of Oulu

Job description

This position is in the field of Cyber Security, and in particular, it focuses on enabling technologies of trust and on trust as a technological enabler. Specifically, the position is directed towards:

• Exploring the relationship between technological choices and trust.
• Tracking trust and privacy regulation and mapping its impact to use of technology in general and especially in cloud services, financial and health care sectors.
• Advancing trust enabling and privacy preserving techniques such as focused data collection, limited data retention, optimized sharing and hyper local processing.
• Exploiting advances in software security measures, cryptography, anonymization and computer science in general in order to turn trust into an enabler.
• Implementing trust all the way from nano-sized applications to large and complex systems with long supply chains.
• Applying these techniques to productization and system development to achieve savings and to speed up adaptation of new products and technologies.

The successful applicant will be involved in teaching and supervision activities in this field and is expected to create and provide related courses to enrich the faculty curriculum. The candidate will also be active in attracting both national and international funding.

Benefits

The salary will be based on levels 8-10 of the demand level chart for teaching and research staff of Finnish universities. In addition, a salary component based on personal work performance will be paid (maximum of 50% of the job-specific component). In practice, the salary will be roughly €5700 to €7000 per month, depending on the appointee’s qualification and performance.

The position is scheduled to be filled as of 1 September, 2020 or as agreed, and it is subject to a six-month trial period.