Lectureship

Lectureships offer an attractive, alternative career goal to professorships. With the assistant lectureship with tenure track (TT), a career path with a probationary period has been created (similar to that of an assistant professorship with TT), with a view to permanent employment. This path gives early-career researchers the opportunity to specifically work towards assuming a permanent lectureship position.

Tasks

Lectures assume tasks in teaching as well as in research and services within their institute or in another organizational unit.

They conduct courses independently and lead research projects and groups. Furthermore, they supervise theses and students, serve as examiners, perform tasks in science administration and take on departmental or group leadership in the service domain.

Prerequisites for employment

  • Lecturer I — habilitation or equivalent qualification
  • Lecturer II and assistant lecturer TT — doctorate (or equivalent qualification for academic fields where a doctorate is not normally required)
  • Lecturers have full scientific independence, which is a prerequisite for the independent acquisition of external funding. Sufficient postdoctoral experience is thus important.
  • Transparent recruitment processes are used to fill these positions.

Assistant lectureship with tenure track (TT)

An assistant lectureship with tenure track provides a path of its own to permanent employment, the aim being to acquire the scientific qualification for potentially taking on an existing lectureship or a new lectureship. Assistant lecturers (TT) are initially employed for three years. After this initial phase, an evaluation board (3-5 members) will perform an evaluation based on predefined qualification criteria. If the evaluation is positive, employment may be extended for a further year. After four years at the latest, the position will be converted into a lectureship.

The recruitment procedure for assistant lectureships with tenure track is in accordance with the specifications and guidelines on recruiting lecturers.