Hamburg Research Academy
3 Postdoc positions
The University of Hamburg invites applications for three positions as RESEARCH ASSOCIATE (Salary Level 13/14 TV-L).
The position in accordance with Section 28 subsection 3 of the Hamburg higher education act (Hamburgisches Hochschulgesetz, HmbHG) commences on 01 April 2020.
This is a fixed-term contract in accordance with Section 2 of the academic fixed-term labor contract act (Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz, WissZeitVG). The term is fixed for a period of 36 months. The position calls for 39 hours per week.
Responsibilities:
Duties primarily include teaching and research. Research associates may also pursue independent research and further academic qualifications.
Specific Duties:
These three positions allow
Emerging Research Fields and Contact Details
Neurosciences and Cognitive Systems:
The emerging field of Neurosciences and Cognitive Systems at the Hamburg Center for Neuroscience (HCNS) links neuroscience and cognitive research activities at the University Medical Center (UKE) and Universität Hamburg, uniting over 400 researchers. These research alliances (e.g., SFB 936, TRR 169, research groups, EU), have won many prizes (e.g., 2 Leibniz Prizes), with work ranging from molecular, neuronal and behavioral-cognitive elements to modeling in informatics systems and clinical research.
Contact: Prof. Dr. Frank Steinicke, Prof. Dr. Christian Gerloff
Health Economics:
The Hamburg Center for Health Economics (HCHE) is an interdisciplinary research center of the faculties of Business Administration, Economics and Social Sciences and Medicine. The center is now one of the largest and high-performing centers in Europe. Particular strengths of the center are its strong international network, the integration of economics and medicine and the successful transfer of research into policy and practice. Since 2011 the center has acquired €30 million in research funding.
Contact: Prof. Dr. Jonas Schreyögg, Prof. Dr. Mathias Kifmann
The Early Modern World:
Researchers with distinctive expertise in the early modern period at Universität Hamburg research and teach in all of the historical sub-disciplines. This expertise is bundled in the emerging field Early Modern World. Research in the emerging field takes an interdisciplinary approach to religious processes taking place from the 15th to the 18th centuries and their manifestations across all contemporary media.
Contact: Prof. Dr. Anselm Steiger, Prof. Dr. Markus Friedrich
Law in Global Contexts:
The faculty covers the full spectrum of legal disciplines, with emphasis on the dogma of the core subjects (private law, public law, and criminal law), including procedural law. There are also cross-disciplinary research areas: (1) fundamentals of law (Law in Context) and (2) international dimensions (International, European, Transnational Law). This fits with the emerging fields of Law in Global Contexts. Digitalization and its consequences for law is a cross-cutting issue.
Contact: Prof. Dr. Markus Kotzur, Prof. Dr. Georg Ringe
Grounds, Causes, Reasons:
Grounds, Causes, Reasons investigates different kinds of relations between grounds and consequences. We study causation, metaphysical explanation, and epistemic reasons as well as reasons for action, individual and collective decision-making processes, the outcome of these processes, and their normative assessment. In addition to basic research on central concepts, we also work on an important area of application: the descriptive and normative analysis of decision-making problems relevant to society.
Contact: Prof. Dr. Anke Gerber, Prof. Dr. Stephan Schmid, Prof. Dr. Vera Troeger(vera.eva.troeger"AT"uni-hamburg.de)
The position asks for teaching hours according to the LVVO (Lehrverpflichtungsverordnung für die Hamburger Hochschulen).
Requirements:
A university degree in a relevant subject plus doctorate. The doctorate must have been completed within the past 36 months (from the date of the doctoral degree certificate).
Applications must include the following documents :
- Project description (objectives, preparatory work, work plan, methods
and milestones) with a general plan of how the supporting project funds of up to € 20,000 per annum will be used. The project description must not exceed 12 pages. - A supporting document explaining (1) why the project is relevant to the individual career goals, (2) why
University of Hamburg’s research environment fits in with the proposed project, and (3) what career steps will be pursued after the position asresearch associate. This document may not exceed three pages. - Supporting letter from a professor from one of the five emerging fields of the University of Hamburg who commits to act as a mentor and outlines why the proposed project fits with existing research (group).
- Two academic reference letters, one of which should be from the current supervisor
- A tabular CV
- All degree certificates as well as the doctoral degree certificate or a confirmation of the successful defense of the doctorate (the doctoral degree certificate must be provided at the start of the employment)
All application documents can be submitted either in English or German.
The University aims to increase the number of women in research and teaching and explicitly encourages women to apply. Equally qualified female applicants will receive preference in accordance with the Hamburg act on gender equality (Hamburgisches Gleichstellungsgesetz, HmbGleiG).
Qualified disabled candidates or applicants with equivalent status receive preference in the application process.
For further information, please contact Dr. Linda Jauch(linda.jauch"AT"hra-hamburg.de) (Hamburg Research Academy). Interviews are planned for the second week in 2020.
Please send applications by 15. December 2019 to linda.jauch@hra-hamburg.de.
Please do not submit original documents as we are not able to return them. Any documents