Anhui University of Finance and Economics

At the heart of SIT’s mission is to nurture industry-ready graduates equipped with deep technical expertise and transferable skills to tackle tomorrow’s challenges. SIT collaborates with industry in our education, while benefitting them with our talent supply and collaborative research achievements. The University’s unique applied learning pedagogy integrates work and study, embedding authentic learning experiences within real-world environments. Through strategic partnerships forged by our faculty with industry, learners bridge theoretical knowledge with practical application in and out of the classroom. Such active & authentic learning opportunities ensures graduates step into their careers with applicable skills and competence. In research, SIT faculty aims to bridge knowledge creation and utilisation. Our faculty collaborates closely with industry on translational research and innovation with focus on addressing pertinent industry challenges to impact businesses. The Singapore Teaching and Academic Research Talent (START) Scheme is co-funded by the Ministry of Education (MOE) and SIT to encourage and support outstanding young Singaporeans interested in pursuing an academic career at SIT. The Applied Research Fellowship aims to provide doctoral candidates who are about to complete or have recently completed their studies an opportunity to engage in advanced training and/or research at an overseas university for one year. Besides financial support, awardees will also receive academic mentorship. Upon completion of the Fellowship, awardees will be considered for Assistant Professorship. Eligibility and Selection Criteria Singapore citizen  Doctoral candidates who have recently completed or are about to complete their studies in a discipline under the supported areas for START below Excellent academic record plus a high degree of proficiency and motivation for selected research area Have been accepted or have applied for a postdoctoral training at a leading overseas university in a research area that is aligned with SIT’s supported areas A keen interest in an academic career Value of Fellowship The Fellowship provides: Monthly stipend Overseas maintenance allowance Return economy airfare Conference and fieldwork grants Overseas medical insurance Fellows will also each be assigned a SIT faculty mentor throughout their post-doctoral training and have opportunities to participate in faculty development programmes. The fellowship is tenable for one year. On an exception basis, a two-year programme may be supported. Service Commitment One year for every year of sponsorship. Application Process Applications are open throughout the year via the various links below. Applications received before 15 January 2026 will be considered for the 2026 intake.  Interview by the respective clusters for shortlisted applicants will be conducted throughout the year. Final Interview by the Panel for shortlisted applicants for the 2026 intake will commence in Mid-March to End April 2026. Awards will be finalised by July 2026. Supported Areas for START - Food, Chemical and Biotechnology Sustainable and Functional food: Sustainable food systems and circular food economy - alternative proteins, upcycled ingredients); AI and automation in food manufacturing - smart sensors, digital twins, and AI-driven food quality control and processing; Food safety - supply chain tracking/monitoring, blockchain Biotechnology: Host strain screening and engineering for microbial bioprocess development; microbial physiology and adaptation for industrial applications; high-throughput screening and automation for strain optimization; bioprospecting for novel microbial hosts, enzymes, and metabolites to support sustainable biomanufacturing. (Bio)pharmaceuticals: Processing science and technology for bio- and chemical transformations, separations, purifications and formulation applied to pharmaceuticals manufacture; modelling of processing steps and whole processes to support innovation, design, optimisation and control for manufacturing operations. Process control: process modelling, control, and optimization, with applications in chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturing; data-driven modelling and machine learning applications in process industries; advanced process control (APC); model predictive control (MPC); digital twins and real-time process monitoring and control; process analytical technology (PAT); process intensification and sustainability.

FACULTY OPENINGS AT THE SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY The Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) is Singapore’s first University of Applied Learning, offering industry-relevant degree programmes that prepare its graduates to be work- and future-ready professionals. Its mission is to maximise the potential of its learners and to innovate with industry, through an integrated applied learning and research approach, so as to contribute to the economy and society. The university’s unique pedagogy integrates work and study, embracing authentic learning in a real-world environment through collaborations with key strategic partners. Its focus on applied research with business impact is aimed at helping industry innovate and grow. Targeted to be ready in 2024, SIT’s centralised campus within the larger Punggol Digital District will feature a vibrant learning environment where academia and industry will be tightly integrated with the community. SIT espouses an applied learning approach and offers degrees with a strong focus on science and technology. Our faculty work closely with industry on translational research and innovation, as well as provide consultancy on solutions to industry challenges. This well-established nexus with industry endows our graduates with deep skills and work-ready training experience – attuning them to the needs and demands of the future economy. As a young university, we encourage innovation and seek the right candidates to join us in realising our vision. We offer competitive remuneration, generous employment benefits access to funding to undertake research of relevance to industry, and the opportunities to inspire and nurture the next generation of skilled and work-ready graduates. We currently have positions available at all levels from Lecturer to Full Professor in Chemical Engineering or related disciplines. Priority skill areas include: process monitoring and control, industry 4.0, modeling, AI and ML applications for the process industries with particular emphasis on delivering step change improvements in process performance; Informatics for process and product development with a background in big data applications in biotechnology, process development or food technology; Quantitative scientific skills in physical chemistry/biochemistry/formulation to enable deeper process and product understanding in high value chemical, pharmaceutical biotechnology and/or food applications. The successful candidate would be expected to teach core chemical of pharmaceutical engineering subjects and to develop applied research to support the continuing development of Singapore’s process industries. Requirements: A PhD in Chemical Engineering or related discipline Strong communication skills Aptitude for Applied Research leading to application of new knowledge to solve real-world problems A high level of digital literacy The following are desirable: Manufacturing, design or research experience in the process and related industries Knowledge and experience of Sustainability assessment as applied to the process industries Chartered or Professional Engineer status Successful candidates will join the Food, Chemical and Biotechnology (FCB) Cluster (one of five domain clusters in SIT), as members of a team of accomplished experts who are passionate about higher education and deeply involved with industry transformation through their applied research programmes. Faculty in the FCB Cluster undertake funded industry-relevant research, teach courses in Chemical Engineering, Pharmaceutical Engineering and Food Technology as well as supervise graduate industry masters and doctorate students in relevant topics. They are also provided with paid leave to undertake consultancy work with industry and/or spend time attached to work with industry. Applications will be accepted until the positions are filled. All applications must be submitted electronically via the "Apply Now" button below.

Schemes of Service: Faculty Division: Infocomm Technology Employment Type: Permanent, Fixed Term Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) invites applications for Academic Staff positions in Operational Technology (OT) Cybersecurity. We are building a distinctive capability at the intersection of cybersecurity, engineering systems, critical infrastructure, and applied learning. We welcome outstanding candidates who can help SIT strengthen its capability in OT cybersecurity, especially colleagues who can work with real engineering systems, brownfield environments, cyber-physical operations, and industry partners. Appointment may be made at a rank aligned with experience and profile. Academic Staff positions in SIT comprise both Faculty and Professional Officers. They play distinctive yet complementary roles in advancing SIT's mission in education and applied research. Faculty provide academic leadership in the design, delivery, and continual enhancement of programmes, ensuring academic rigour and industry relevance, while Professional Officers, as technical specialists, embed current and emerging industry practices and support practice-oriented delivery. Together, they strengthen SIT's applied learning environment through hands-on, real-world approaches that enhance students' industry readiness. In applied research, faculty lead translational research and innovation in collaboration with industry, bridging knowledge creation with practical application, while Professional Officers contribute deep technical expertise and industry experience to translate concepts into implementation, prototyping and deployment, thereby ensuring impactful and industry-relevant outcomes. Why join SIT SIT is Singapore's first University of Applied Learning and the University for Industry. Our students learn in authentic environments, work on real problems with external partners, and undertake substantial workplace learning through the Integrated Work Study Programme. Our approach to education is explicitly competency-based, with a focus on demonstrated capability, workplace relevance, and flexible pathways for learners. SIT's Punggol campus is a testbed for the systems around which this role is built. The campus runs on Singapore's first Multi-Energy Microgrid (MEMG), which is the largest microgrid in Singapore and the first MEMG on a university campus in Southeast Asia. The MEMG was built and operated with SP Group, integrating solar PV, thermal, and distributed energy resources into a live, sandbox-grade environment for energy transition research. The campus also houses the Energy Efficiency Technology Centre (EETC), established with the National Environment Agency, whose Energy Efficiency Training Facility is a first-of-its-kind integrated industrial systems plant in Singapore — giving staff and students a working industrial process environment for development, applied research, and hands-on training. Alongside these, the Centre for Intelligent Robotics at Punggol Digital District, together with the SIT–NVIDIA AI Centre, gives staff and students authentic cyber-physical environments in which to develop, integrate, and stress-test new technologies under realistic operating conditions. In parallel, SIT works closely with the maritime ecosystem on decarbonisation and digitalisation. Through its Future Ship and System Design Programme and partnerships with DNV's Maritime Decarbonisation & Autonomy Regional Centre of Excellence, Seatrium's Offshore & Marine Digital Learning Lab, RINA, and MPA-linked initiatives, SIT engages directly with shipowners, yards, classification societies, and regulators on zero-emission and autonomous vessels, shore charging and future-fuel bunkering, digital twins, and AI-enabled remote operations. Taken together, these platforms, the deep industry partnership network across the energy and maritime sectors and next-generation AI and robotics use cases, provide an exciting ecosystem of real assets, operators, and operational problems to which security, resilience, and safe-operation research can be applied, tested, and translated into practice. Areas of interest in OT cybersecurity This search prioritises practitioners. We are looking, first and foremost, for candidates with substantial, hands-on experience defending real-world industrial environments as asset owners, operators, integrators, consultants, or responders, who can bring that operational experience, engineering constraints and sector-relevant problems into the classroom and the lab. We welcome accomplished academics, but the strongest candidates will have spent significant time on plant floors, in control rooms, and inside live OT networks and environments. Candidates should be able to translate that field experience into rigorous, hands-on teaching, authentic learning experiences, and useful, industry-relevant outcomes. We are interested in the security, resilience, and safe operation of real-world industrial systems, particularly in the maritime and energy sectors, including secure applications of robotics and AI in these operational environments where critical systems must continue to operate safely under degraded or contested conditions, and cyber decisions have physical, operational, and safety consequences. Relevant areas include: secure deployment and brownfield hardening of OT systems already in live operation safe modernisation, segmentation, remote access, and control integration in industrial or infrastructure environments OT testing, experimentation, and validation environments that reflect real production constraints OT incident response, resilience, degraded operations, and safe recovery OT asset discovery, dependency mapping, criticality analysis, and operational risk visibility security of cyber-physical systems, controllers (e.g., PLCs, RTUs, HMIs, DCS, IEDs, power converters and charging systems), embedded devices, industrial protocols (e.g., Modbus, CAN, DNP3, OPC-UA, EtherNet/IP, PROFINET, BACnet), and industrial control networks consequence-aware security analysis for complex OT systems-of-systems Key responsibilities You will contribute to SIT's mission through a combination of teaching, curriculum development, applied scholarship, and external engagement in OT cybersecurity. Depending on rank and profile, responsibilities may include teaching undergraduate, postgraduate, and continuing education learners designing modules, labs, case-based learning, and authentic assessments developing hands-on OT cybersecurity learning environments, training assets, scenarios, and exercises supervising capstone projects, industry-linked projects, and graduate students where appropriate contributing to programme development across pre-employment and continuing education offerings developing relevant and durable institutional OT cybersecurity capabilities for Singapore's local ecosystem, including industry, infrastructure operators, and the broader workforce delivering impact through projects and partnerships with industry, government, infrastructure operators, engineering organisations, and professional communities contributing to interdisciplinary initiatives across engineering, cybersecurity, computing, AI, safety, and applied systems domains providing thought leadership towards shaping local practice, policy input and advisory roles Teaching and educational contributions At SIT, strong teaching means building learning experiences that are hands-on, rigorous, and close to practice. In OT cybersecurity, this may include secure architecture and deployment exercises, brownfield hardening projects, industrial protocol analysis, controller and embedded-system security labs, OT visibility and asset discovery activities, incident response simulations, resilience and recovery exercises, or projects shaped by real operational, safety, and engineering constraints. Our educational model values authenticity, workplace relevance, and the ability to assess whether learners can perform, not only whether they can recall. You should be able to contribute to curriculum design, develop modern teaching materials, mentor students well, and work with colleagues to improve programmes over time. Experience with applied learning, competency-based education, workplace learning, engineering education, or industry-based training will be valuable. Candidates will be able to leverage SIT's campus, laboratories, and industry partnerships to create realistic learning and experimentation platforms where secure engineering systems, production-informed validation, and operational resilience can be taught, tested, and translated. The strongest candidates will connect technical cybersecurity depth with operational and domain relevance, and work across engineering, cybersecurity, safety, operations, and management domains. Research / scholarly / translational contributions SIT values scholarship that moves beyond publication alone. We are interested in research and scholarly work that can be tested, translated, adopted, or used to solve real problems. In OT cybersecurity, this may take different forms: applied research with infrastructure operators or engineering partners; translational work that leads to methods, tools, datasets, validation approaches, or deployable capabilities; practice-based scholarship grounded in operational experience; sector-facing evaluations; or interdisciplinary work that brings cybersecurity into real systems and real environments. Relevant themes may include secure brownfield modernisation, OT systems-of-systems validation, resilience and recovery under cyber disruption, safe use of operational data, dependency and criticality mapping, engineering-informed risk assessment, and consequence-aware incident response. The strongest candidates will show a clear line of sight between their expertise and tangible external value. Candidate profile / qualifications We welcome applications from candidates with strong academic, applied, or practice-oriented profiles. You should have Doctorate or a Master's degree, with substantial and credible industry achievement, in engineering, cybersecurity, computer engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, control systems, systems engineering, industrial automation, information security, or a closely related field, or an equivalent combination of industry standing, recognised OT/ICS certification, and substantial, credible operational achievement expertise in one or more OT cybersecurity domains relevant to this search, backed by substantial hands-on experience in real industrial or infrastructure environments a strong interest in student learning and engagement, and keenness to adopt flipped classroom methods, team-based learning, and authentic assessments for learning strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset interest in working across disciplines and with external partners The following will strengthen an application experience in real-world engineering, industrial, infrastructure, government, or operational technology environments operational knowledge and experience with brownfield OT systems and processes, industrial control systems, building systems, utilities, manufacturing systems, transport systems, energy systems, or other cyber-physical environments practical understanding of OT architecture, industrial protocols, controllers, embedded systems, remote access, segmentation, monitoring, or lifecycle constraints, familiarity with frameworks such as IEC 62443, NIST SP 800-82, NERC CIP, IACS UR E26/27, and the SANS ICS Five Critical Controls. experience in OT incident response, resilience planning, recovery, safety-critical operations, or operational risk management professional certifications or recognised practice credentials relevant to cybersecurity, OT security, industrial systems, engineering safety, or infrastructure operations, such as GICSP, GRID, GCIP, GIAC, CISSP, or ISA/IEC 62443 credentials for candidates at the levels of Associate Professor / Professor, the ability to lead programmes, mentor colleagues, build external partnerships, and help shape institutional capability Application Submission Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. All applications must be submitted electronically through the SIT careers website using the Apply Now button. As part of your application, please submit the following materials cover letter curriculum vitae research, scholarship, or applied practice statement teaching statement Questions about this opportunity may be directed to the Cybersecurity Faculty Search Committee Chair at SIT_CYBERSECURITY_ACADEMIC@SINGAPORETECH.EDU.SG. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.