visiting professorships for talents from industry

TU Darmstadt is one of Germany’s leading and most dynamic technical universities and has a worldwide reputation. The research, teaching and technology transfer at TU Darmstadt are characterised by engineering and natural sciences, which cooperate closely with the focused humanities and social sciences. TU Darmstadt is an important engine of economic and technological development in the metropolitan region Frankfurt-Rhine-Main. With its gender equality-oriented appointment policy, TU Darmstadt is actively contributing to the increase of the proportion of women in top scientific positions.

As part of the Female Professor Programme of the Federal and State Governments,

Visiting Professorships for Talents from Industry

are to be filled at the engineering-technical departments of TU Darmstadt for a duration of 1-2 semesters. The aim of the visiting female professor programme at TU Darmstadt is to make female role models in engineering visible and to expand networking and career paths between industry and science.

You have a doctorate and management experience, and you are currently working in a research or development-related department at an industrial company. You are interested in teaching and researching at the university for one to two semesters, establishing new contacts and cooperations, promoting the exchange between companies and universities and sparking students’ enthusiasm for your subject area.

Within the framework of a (partial) sabbatical, visiting professorships are filled, either full-time or part-time. Employment is scheduled to commence on 01 October 2025. The remuneration is based on TU Darmstadt’s regulations for visiting professors (flat-rate remuneration based on W2 salary).

The professional profile of the visiting professorships is not fixed, but it should be compatible and complement the subject areas of the following departments of TU Darmstadt:

• Materials and Earth Sciences,
• Civil and Environmental Engineering Sciences,
• Mechanical Engineering,
• Electrical Engineering and Information Technology,
• Computer Science.

The requirements for employment pursuant to Section 68 HessHG (Hessisches Hochschulgesetz) apply: completed university degree, scientific achievements as proven by the quality of the doctorate, additional scientific achievements or special achievements in the application or development of scientific knowledge and methods in at least five years of professional practice, of which at least three years must have taken place outside the university.

Please direct your application to gastprofessorinnenprogramm@zv.tu-… stating the reference number with the usual documents and a brief description of the planned research and teaching project.

In case of equal qualifications, applicants with a degree of disability of at least 50 or equal will be given preference.

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