Appointment for Professorship: Learning from Experience – Engineering, Computer Science and Natural Science (February 24th, 2026)
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The event offers the opportunity to gain insights into appointment procedures for professorships in a discussion with experienced professors and other relevant stakeholders.
How do appointment procedures work? Who is involved? What considerations are decisive on the part of the decision-making bodies? Which behaviour is expected from applicants, which is tolerated and which tends to contribute to a negative assessment?
As a participant you:
- receive important (background) information about the entire appointment procedure
- can clarify your questions with experienced professors, newly appointed professors and other stakeholders involved in the process
- can adjust your behaviour in appointment procedures more specifically to the relevant requirements
Based on the appointment procedure, the three-hour event focuses on three main topics:
- Application: Identifying suitable positions, matching the position with your own profile, contact with the relevant university before and after the application, etc.
- Appointment presentation and discussion with the appointment committee: selection of the presentation topic, presentation design for a heterogeneous audience, stumbling blocks in the presentation and discussion, dealing with critical questions, do's and don'ts
- Appointment: procedure, clever negotiation and behaviour, expectations of the appointing university
Format:
- Moderated discussion
- Q&A
Target audience:
- Postdocs of the Rhine Main Universities (RMU – TU Darmstadt, Goethe University Frankfurt, Gutenberg University Mainz)
- Junior research group leaders with RMU employment
- Junior professors, qualifying professors and assistant professors with RMU employment
Guests:
- NN Professors from TU Darmstadt
- (opens in new tab) | Head of Unit IA University Strategy at Directorate I – Strategic Development Julian Reinfeldt
Language: English
Date/time: Tuesday, February 24th, 2026 | 10:00 am – 01:00 pm
Location: S3|12 Wissenschaftsschloss, De-La-Fosse-Bau, SCC Lounge (6th floor)
Registration: Please fill in the (opens in new tab). Ingenium registration form