Stellenticket Freie Universität Berlin

The junior pro­fess­or­ship includes research and teach­ing in the fields of integ­ra­tion of bio­lo­gical func­tions in poly­mer-based mater­i­als as well as the under­ly­ing bio­lo­gical and chem­ical meth­ods with the main focus on

• mater­i­als sci­ence of plastics and their pro­cessing
• Tech­no­lo­gies for the modi­fic­a­tion of poly­mer sur­faces
• Bio­chem­ical and molecu­lar basis of bio­act­ive molecules like pro­teins, pep­tides and sugar molecules
• Bio­tech­no­lo­gical basis of the pro­duc­tion of bio­act­ive molecules

Teach­ing respons­ib­il­it­ies include basic and advanced lec­tures as well as par­ti­cip­a­tion in labor­at­ory courses in the bach­elor and mas­ter pro­gram "Mater­i­als Chem­istry". Duties also include teach­ing in other BTU courses of study. Courses may also be held in Eng­lish.

The junior pro­fess­or­ship is asso­ci­ated with the man­age­ment of the Fraunhofer pro­ject group "Bio­func­tion­al­iz­a­tion/Bio­lo­giz­a­tion of Poly­mer Mater­i­als" at the Fraunhofer Insti­tute for Applied Poly­mer Research IAP at the BTU Cottbus-Sen­ften­berg. It com­prises the sci­entific and eco­nomic man­age­ment and devel­op­ment of the pro­ject group within the Fraunhofer model as well as the close cooper­a­tion with the par­ent insti­tute in Pots­dam-Golm.

In your new pos­i­tion, you will com­pet­ently rep­res­ent the main top­ics in research and teach­ing as well as in research and tech­no­logy man­age­ment vis-à-vis pub­lic research fund­ing and research par­ti­cipants from industry and sci­ence, and expand the stra­tegic rela­tion­ship between the Uni­versity and the Fraunhofer Insti­tute.

Fur­ther duties res­ult from § 42 Branden­burg Higher Edu­ca­tion Act (BbgHG) in con­junc­tion with § 3 BbgHG.

You can demon­strate a high sci­entific qual­ity of your research and devel­op­ment work as well as the abil­ity to acquire fund­ing research and devel­op­ment pro­jects from pub­lic and indus­trial cli­ents in the field of devel­op­ment, research and pro­duc­tion of bio­act­ive molecules and their integ­ra­tion into or onto poly­mer-based mater­i­als and con­tinue this in the con­text of future tasks.

In addi­tion, you have exper­i­ence in stra­tegic plan­ning, acquis­i­tion, coordin­a­tion and man­age­ment of national and prefer­ably also inter­na­tional research and devel­op­ment pro­jects in dif­fer­ent busi­ness areas and show com­pet­ences in increas­ing the effi­ciency of devel­op­ment pro­cesses and in exploit­a­tion of tech­no­logy.

For fur­ther inform­a­tion, please con­tact Prof. Dr. Alex­an­der Böker from Fraunhofer-Gesell­schaft:
Phone: 0049 / 331 568-1112, E-Mail: alexander.boeker@iap.fraunhofer.de and Prof. Dr. Peer Schmidt from BTU: Phone: 0049 / 3573 / 85 827, E-Mail: peer.schmidt@b-tu.de.

The require­ments and con­di­tions for employ­ment are in §§ 45 and 46 BbgHG. As a rule, the period of full-time sci­entific activ­ity between the last exam­in­a­tion of the doc­tor­ate and the applic­a­tion for the junior pro­fess­or­ship may not exceed six years.

Per­sons who ful­fill the require­ments for a uni­versity pro­fess­or­ship accord­ing to § 41 Abs. 1 Nr. 4a BbgHG can­not be con­sidered for this selec­tion pro­ced­ure.

Accord­ing to § 46 BbgHG junior pro­fess­ors are appoin­ted as tem­por­ary civil ser­vants for a period of up to four years. In the case of a pos­it­ive interim eval­u­ation, the appoint­ment may be exten­ded to a max­imum of six years. Upon suc­cess­ful per­form­ance dur­ing the six-year junior pro­fess­or­ship, the ten­ure track provides the option of trans­fer­ring a W3 grade pro­fess­or­ship to the holder of the pos­i­tion after an appoint­ment pro­ced­ure has been car­ried out. Ten­ure eval­u­ation is con­duc­ted in accord­ance with § 11 of the BTU Ten­ure-Track Reg­u­la­tions.

The Fac­ulty of Envir­on­ment and Nat­ural Sci­ences of Branden­burg Uni­versity of Tech­no­logy (BTU) Cottbus–Sen­ften­berg), in joint appoint­ment with the Fraunhofer Soci­ety, offers a: W1 – JUNIOR PRO­FESS­OR­SHIP Bio­func­tional Poly­mer Mater­i­als (with ten­ure track option to a W3 pro­fess­or­ship)

in asso­ci­ation with the man­age­ment of the Fraunhofer pro­ject group "Bio­func­tion­al­iz­a­tion/Bio­lo­giz­a­tion of Poly­mer Mater­i­als" at the Fraunhofer Insti­tute for Applied Poly­mer Research IAP at the BTU Cottbus-Sen­ften­berg.

The Branden­burg Uni­versity of Tech­no­logy Cottbus-Sen­ften­berg (BTU) is the second largest uni­versity and the only tech­nical uni­versity in the state of Branden­burg. In research and tech­no­logy trans­fer, great value is placed on cooper­a­tion with other uni­versit­ies and non-uni­versity research insti­tu­tions, with regional small and medium-sized com­pan­ies as well as with large and glob­ally act­ive cor­por­a­tions.

The BTU and the Fraunhofer Gesell­schaft are striv­ing to increase the pro­por­tion of women in research and teach­ing and there­fore encour­age rel­ev­ant applic­a­tions.

You can expect a wide range of pro­jects with a high degree of prac­tical rel­ev­ance and sig­ni­fic­ant free­dom in research. The BTU and the Fraunhofer-Gesell­schaft pur­sue a fam­ily-friendly per­son­nel policy and offer their employ­ees flex­ible work­ing hours and sup­port ser­vices to help them bal­ance work and fam­ily life. As a fam­ily-ori­ented uni­versity, the BTU offers sup­port for dual career couples (Dual Career Ser­vice).

Per­sons with a severe dis­ab­il­ity are given pref­er­en­tial con­sid­er­a­tion if they are equally suit­able.

The BTU and the Fraunhofer-Gesell­schaft value and pro­mote the diversity of their employ­ees' skills and there­fore wel­come all applic­a­tions - regard­less of age, gender, nation­al­ity, eth­nic and social back­ground, reli­gion, ideo­logy, dis­ab­il­ity, as well as sexual ori­ent­a­tion and iden­tity.

Please also refer to the data pri­vacy inform­a­tion on the BTU web­site.

Please send your applic­a­tion with proof of qual­i­fic­a­tions, a table show­ing your pro­fes­sional career, a list of pub­lic­a­tions and proof of teach­ing qual­i­fic­a­tion by e-mail in a sum­mar­ized pdf file of max. 7 MB 06.05.2021:

Dean of the Fac­ulty of Envir­on­ment and Nat­ural Sci­ences
BTU Cottbus - Sen­ften­berg, Post­fach 101344, 03013 Cottbus

Email: fakultaet2+bewerbungen@b-tu.de