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Professorships

  • Requirements for appointment as a W1 professor: PhD, doctoral degree or equivalent, research with high-potential
  • Qualification period: Date of doctoral degree + maximum 4 years, for medicine: date of doctoral degree + maximum 7 years
  • Fixed-term appointment with interim evaluation
  • Possibility of career advancement (tenure track) to a W2 or W3 professorship
  • a completed W1 assistant professorship is generally considered to be a qualification that is equivalent to a habilitation
  • the title of ‘professor’ may only be used while employed as a W1 assistant professor

Requirements:

  • PhD, doctoral degree or equivalent awarded by a university
  • Habilitation or equivalent postdoctoral qualifications: the habilitation is intended to demonstrate a person’s suitability to teach and research at universities as a professor for a specific subject. Experience in independent academic teaching and the ability to conduct independent research demonstrated through a habilitation thesis or multiple high-level academic publications; can also be demonstrated in the form of a positive evaluation as a W1 assistant professor.
  • Peer reviewed publications
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W2 professorships can also be advertised with a tenure track to W3.

 




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