MaxPlanck@TUM

Successful candidates will be employed as Max Planck Research Group Leaders for a period of six years at a Max Planck Institute of their choice. The MPG/the institute will provide the required facilities.

Research group leaders will be appointed as a TUM Tenure Track Assistant Professor when they start their employment with the MPG (at the same time, if possible). They will have the same rights and obligations as university professors (e.g. the right to award doctorates). They will enjoy full academic and organizational autonomy, i.e. they will have the same ranking as the other professors.

The initial appointment as professor at TUM will be for 6 years on leave. To ensure that the jointly appointed professors are treated equally to other assistant professors at TUM, the teaching workload during the tenure phase is 5 contact ours per week during the semester (SWS). This teaching can be carried out at TUM and at an International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS). Teaching at TUM

Assistant professors have the support of a mentoring team during the tenure phase at TUM. They receive advice on organizing their research environment and feedback on their performance. In addition, structured annual performance evaluations are carried out by the mentoring team and the head of department to identify off-track developments at an early stage.

This program offers assistant professors a dedicated training program. TUM Tenure Track Academy program

Evaluations during the employment phase are carried out at the MPG and TUM separately in line with each institution's regulations.

After positive evaluation in the final year, candidates are tenured to associate professor (W3 position). Evaluation is based on the university’s pre-defined, transparent assessment criteria. In exceptional cases, the tenure evaluation may be initiated after a minimum of three years, but at the earliest at the same time as the MPG evaluation.

Tenure evaluation will also take place at TUM if the evaluation at MPG was negative but the candidates nevertheless request tenure evaluation.

Following a positive tenure evaluation, the candidates will be promoted to the position of associate professor at TUM (W3 professorship). From this point on, both the professors' salary and work package will be paid by TUM. These will be defined individually during appointment negotiations with the TUM President.

• Evaluation & Promotion in the TUM Faculty Recruitment & Career System

All applications must be submitted to the MPG application portal following the rules described there. Applicants who are interested in the joint appointment as an assistant professor at TUM should indicate this in the online application form.

The two stages of the application process are as follows:

The MPG selects its candidates from among the applicants. Successful candidates are appointed as research group leaders at a Max Planck Institute.

TUM contacts the candidates who were successful in the MPG selection process. In this second stage, the applicants are asked to submit the documents required for an appointment process at TUM. This includes:

• Curriculum vitae / résumé
• Degree certificates (including transcript of records)
• Diplomas
• List of publications
• Three selected publications
• Presentation of research strategy
• List of courses taught
• Descriptive statement on teaching strategy and philosophy
• Third-party funding
• Names and addresses of three expert reviewers

Please have all of these documents ready to avoid a delay. However, it is neither necessary nor advisable to send application documents to TUM unless requested to do so.

Candidates must fulfill the recruitment requirements for Tenure Track Assistant Professors at TUM. After completing their degree and doctorate, candidates must have undertaken substantial research and obtained international experience, and their academic performance must be commensurate with the early stage of their career based on current international assessment criteria. Details: FAQ on TUM's Faculty Recruitment and Career System

The appointment process at TUM takes a maximum of three months.