Professorship (W1) for Experimental Physics

The appointment as professor (salaried employee) is for six years (§ 64 of the Higher Education Act of the State of Hessen (HHG)) and subject to a midterm review. According to § 64, para. 3 HHG the doctorate should not date back to more than four years.

The professorship is competitively announced in two different subject areas of experimental physics. We are looking for an early career researcher whose research profile is either in the field of "Proton-induced reactions and their applications in experimental astrophysics" or in the area of experimental solid-state physics with a focus on "Materials development of electronically correlated or low-dimensional quantum materials".

The successful applicant should be able to exhibit international competitive research experience, demonstrated by an excellent publication record. It is expected that she / he will work closely with the existing groups in the respective research area. Furthermore, in the application ideas for the establishment of interdisciplinary projects with the Institute of Geosciences are requested, in particular with the group of the Wilhelm Heraeus Endowed Chair for Deep Earth Processes.

The salary for the position is based on “W1” on the German university scale. The Goethe University aims at increasing the number of women in research and teaching and therefore explicitly calls on qualified female scientists to apply. Details on the legal framework of the recruitment requirements can be found at www.vakante-professuren.uni-frankfurt.de

Scientists who are qualified in research and teaching are invited to submit their application in English or German with the usual documents (CV, certificates, teaching experience, publication list, list of third-party funding, short presentation of the research concept) by 15.10.2018 in electronic form to the Dean of the Department of Physics, Goethe-Universität, Max-von-Laue-Str. 1, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, E-Mail: dekanat@physik.uni-frankfurt.de