W 2 - Professorship (F/m/d) for Digital Methods in

**Paderborn University is a high-performance and internationally oriented university with approximately 20,000**
**students. Within interdisciplinary teams, we undertake forward-looking research, design innovative teaching concepts**
**and actively transfer knowledge into society. As an important research and cooperation partner, the university also**
**shapes regional development strategies. We offer our more than 2,600 employees in research, teaching, technology**
**and administration a lively, family-friendly, equal opportunity environment, a lean management structure and diverse**
**opportunities.**

**Join us to invent the future
**The KreativInstitut.OWL is a scientific and artistic institute in the network of the University of Paderborn, the OWL**
**University of Applied Sciences and Arts, and the University of Music Detmold. For this institute, a 1,044 square meter**
**building is being erected on the Kreativ Campus Detmold, which will provide media laboratories and creative**
**workplace concepts. In the KreativInstitut.OWL, 6.5 professorships and staff positions in the areas of digital**
**humanities, digital media production, and music and film informatics will be set up in order to sustainably strengthen**
**the future viability of the cultural and creative industries through research and transfer in the field of digital media.**

At the KreativInstitut.OWL, the following research professorships, limited until 31.12.2026, associated with the Faculty of Arts
and Humanities (ZenMEM), are to be filled at the earliest possible date:
**W 2 - Professorship (f/m/d)**
**for Digital Methods in Music and Media Edition
- Reference 5493**

We are looking for a personality who will effectively support new music and media practices through transfer-oriented digital
research in the field of music/media/edition. The research professorship opens up music-cultural and musicological objects in
innovative ways for the cultural/creative industries, for scientific and pedagogical contexts, and for uses in GLAM institutions.
production practice in music theater, orchestral, and chamber music. The focus is on the development of new business areas
music and media and to further develop innovative media integration in music-related production and edition processes. We
expect your own interpretation of the profile mentioned here.

The position requires competences in applied computer science (e.g. software engineering; web technologies; human-machine
interaction; music informatics), knowledge in the field of digital music and media editing, as well as experience in the
environment of creative industries and knowledge transfer. Creative approaches to initiating and developing sustainable
methods and tools for digital music and media editions, a high degree of willingness to cooperate, active engagement in
acquiring third-party funding and in supervising bachelor's/master's theses and doctoral dissertations are expected.

**W 2 - Professorship (f/m/d)**
**for Modeling Linked Virtual Data Spaces (in the field of music and media) - Reference 5494**

We are looking for a personality who combines the humanities and computer science and who will advance the transfer of
knowledge and methods with regard to models, coding standards and formats for archiving, processing and exchanging music
- and media-related data (such as MEI, TEI, CIDOC CRM). The focus is on the networking of data spaces (Linked Data models
as music/audio/sound, film, performance, virtual reality/augmented reality. In the sense of developing sustainable, innovative,
interoperable approaches, the central tasks of the professorship also include the exchange and collaboration between
academia, media practice/creative industries and memory institutions, as well as the integration into the NFDI structures. The
interconnection. We expect your own interpretation on the profile mentioned here.

Competencies in the field of digital humanities or information science, for example in relation to linked data, music
- and media
- related data modeling, ontologies and data structures, knowledge of international coding standards and format specifications,
as well as experience with working in the corresponding international communities are required. Creative approaches to
initiating and developing sustainable methods and tools, a high degree of willingness to cooperate, active engagement in
acquiring third-party funding and in supervising bachelor's/master's theses and doctoral dissertations are expected.

In particular, both professorships are to cooperate in an interdisciplinary manner with the other newly established professorships
in the KreativInstitut.OWL as well as to strengthen the profile areas of the universities and the cultural and creative industries.
They actively participate in the acquisition of third-party funding with regional and supra-regional partners as well as in the
preparation of research proposals. As part of the collegial management of the KreativIns