Appointment for Professorship: Learning from Experience (February 18th, 2025)

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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:

  • N.N. | Natural Sciences
  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Hasse | Professor for Simulation of reactive Thermo-Fluid Systems at the Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Prof. Dr. Jan Gugenheimer | Assistant Professor for Human Computer Interaction (MCI) at the Institute of Computer Science
  • Julian Reinfeldt | Head of Unit IA University Strategy at Directorate I – Strategic Development

Language: English

Date/time: Tuesday, February 18th, 2025 | 10:00 am – 01:00 pm

Location: S3|12 Wissenschaftsschloss, De-La-Fosse-Bau, SCC Lounge (6th floor)

Registration: Please fill in the Ingenium registration form (opens in new tab)

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