Employment & Opportunities

Director - Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research - Warnemuende (IOW)

The IOW is searching for a Director, with the position available October 1st, 2021. The position of Director also encompasses a W3 professorship for Earth Systems Analysis at the University of Rostock.

The Director is responsible for the scientific management of the IOW and for representing the Institute externally and internally. In particular, impulses for research design and structures and the lead in the program budget of the IOW as well as constructive cooperation in the profile line Maritime Systems of the Interdisciplinary Faculty of the University of Rostock are expected. The teaching obligation is 2 credit hours.
 
Qualifications are as per § 58 of the Higher Education Act of the State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (LHG M-V): completed university studies, doctoral degree, post-doctoral thesis (“Habilitation”), teaching experience or equivalent qualifications, usually earned within the context of junior professorship.

Applications with the usual documents (full CV, a complete list of academic and professional background, publications, teaching experience, any additional qualifications, a summary of grants and sponsored research activities and a description of future research and management plans at the IOW) should be sent no later than 5 June 2020 to the University of Rostock, Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Wismarsche Straße 45, 18057 Rostock or by e-mail to .
 
The professorship is to be filled according to § 61 LHG M-V as a position with civil servant status for life, or, if applicable, for 5 years. It is also possible to fill the position as a regular state employee.
 
For further inquiries, please contact:
Prof. Dr. Detlef Schulz-Bull, chair of appointments committee
Telephone: +49 381 5197 310  
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