Assistant Professorship

Technical University Darmstadt is an autonomous university with broad research excellence, an interdisciplinary profile, and a focus on engineering sciences. The Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology is among the largest departments and is regularly ranked within the top group of its peers in Germany and Europe.

**Assistant Professorship (W2 with Tenure Track)**
**Technical Systems for the Human-Machine Interface**:
initially for a period of 6 years.
- Human Assistance (e.g., exoskeletons, cobots, telepresence systems, continuum robotics, soft robotics, micro
- and nanorobotics, brain-computer interfaces, haptic systems, wearables, monitoring systems, neurosensors, neuroelectronics).
- Medicine and Rehabilitation (e.g., medical robotics, rehabilitation, protheses, orthoses, endoscopy, microsurgery, teleoperation systems, neuroprostheses, active implants, neurostimulation).
- Transport Systems (e.g., autonomous vehicles, driver assistance systems, teleoperation of vehicles).

The potential for close collaboration with representatives of the department is expected. Moreover, the position should be able to connect to related disciplines (mechanical engineering, computer science, biology and medicine) and within the Rhein-Main-University network.

The assistant professorship is designated as a qualification professorship according to -70 HessHG (Hessian Higher Education Act). Accordingly, the duration of the academic activity during and after the doctorate should generally not exceed nine years or the scientific activity after the doctorate four years. Furthermore, applicants should have completed their doctorate at a university other than TU Darmstadt or have worked scientifically outside TU Darmstadt for at least two years after completing their doctorate.

The assistant professorship is initially limited to six years and comes with the option of a tenured professorship after a successfully completed tenure process. The tenure process, which can be initiated one and a half year before the end of the assistant professorship, evaluates the corresponding achievements in research and teaching. After a successful probationary phase of six years, the immediate transition to a tenured professorship W2 is granted, for which a W3 professorship can be applied for after a further five years. For further information, please see the tenure guidelines of Technical University Darmstadt. Remuneration follows the German W-Besoldung at level W2 Hessisches Besoldungsgesetz. A comparable employment relationship is possible.