The posting
Secure Collaboration on top of the Digital Twin as a Service Platform This PostDoc project focusses on extending an existing digital twin platform called DTaaS with better support for collaboration between different legal entities in a secure manner. Digital twins are software representations of physical assets, processes, or systems. They leverage real-time data to mirror the behaviour and characteristics of their physical counterparts, enabling predictive maintenance, optimization, and improved decision-making in various industries like manufacturing, construction, and urban planning. Secure collaboration facilities in the DTaaS platform allows co-creation of products and services across multiple companies and authorities, thus supporting large virtual enterprises necessary for the development and operation of large-scale enterprises, such as critical infrastructures, logistics chains, etc. The research involves extensions to the DTaaS platform with different security principles and defining security policies that supports co-simulations by multiple autonomous actors. A proof-of-concept of the value of such dynamic collaboration in a System of Systems setting is included with a case centred around Aarhus Festuge. Industrially this new technology is very valuable in order to protect Intellectual Property for the different legal entities and principles for sharing data as the situation changes (using the security policies).
Expected start date and duration of employment This is a fulltime 19 month position starting from 1 February 2027 or as soon possible.
The primary duties of the postdoc will be to:
- Develop a dynamic access control model that supports multi-tenant collaboration on the DTaaS platform
- Integrate the developed model into the existing DTaaS platform developed at AU
- Evaluate the developed model with respect to the goals defined in the project
- Help disseminate the results of the research conducted in the project, both internally at AU through collaboration with other departments and supervising student projects and externally through academic publications and different industrial outreach activities
The candidate has at least the following qualifications
- Applicants should hold a PhD in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or similar
- Cyber-physical modelling and simulation
- Digital Twins
- Security Policies and their architectures
- Advanced programming skills
What we offer
- a well-developed research infrastructure, laboratories and access to shared equipment
- an exciting interdisciplinary environment with many national, international and industrial collaborators
- a research climate encouraging lively, open and critical discussion within and across different fields of research
- a work environment with close working relationships, networking and social activities
- a workplace characterised by professionalism, equality and a healthy work-life balance.
Place of work and area of employment The place of work is Helsingforsgade 10, 8200 Aarhus N, and the area of employment is Aarhus University with the ECE department.
Contact information For further information, please contact: Professor Peter Gorm Larsen, [email protected], phone number +4541893260.
Deadline Applications must be received no later than 22 October 2026
Application procedure Shortlisting is used. This means that after the deadline for applications – and with the assistance from the assessment committee chairman, and the appointment committee if necessary, – the head of department selects the candidates to be evaluated. All applicants will be notified whether or not their applications have been sent to an expert assessment committee for evaluation. The selected applicants will be informed about the composition of the committee, and each applicant is given the opportunity to comment on the part of the assessment that concerns him/her self.
Formalities and salary range Technical Sciences refers to the Ministerial Order on the Appointment of Academic Staff at Danish Universities under the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation.
The application must be in English and include a curriculum vitae, degree certificate, a complete list of publications, a statement of future research plans and information about research activities, teaching portfolio and verified information on previous teaching experience (if any). Guidelines for applicants can be found here.
Appointment shall be in accordance with the collective labour agreement between the Danish Ministry of Taxation and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations. Further information on qualification requirements and job content may be found in the Memorandum on Job Structure for Academic Staff at Danish Universities.
Salary and terms as agreed between the Danish Ministry of Taxation and the Confederation of Professional Unions at basic salary steps 4-8.
Aarhus University’s ambition is to be an attractive and inspiring workplace for all and to foster a culture in which each individual has opportunities to thrive, achieve and develop. We view equality and diversity as assets, and we welcome all applicants.
Research activities will be evaluated in relation to actual research time. Thus, we encourage applicants to specify periods of leave without research activities, in order to be able to subtract these periods from the span of the scientific career during the evaluation of scientific productivity.
Aarhus University offers a broad variety of services for international researchers and accompanying families, including relocation service and career counselling to expat partners. Read more here. Please find more information about entering and working in Denmark here.
Aarhus University also offers a Junior Researcher Development Programme targeted at career development for postdocs at AU. You can read more about it here.
The application must be submitted via Aarhus University’s recruitment system, which can be accessed under the job advertisement on Aarhus University's website.
