JProf TU
TU Dortmund University provides its assistant professors ("Juniorprofessuren") with target group-specific support and training.
ImFokus: Effective organization of your own research group / professorship
- Research Academy Ruhr
- InFokus
- For Junior Faculty
- Für Junior Faculty
- Workshop
Goals:
- Sharpening your own leadership profile
- Giving direction: Allocation and management of tasks, implementation of structures, appropiate use of resources, organization of meetings etc.
- Handeling responsibilities, expectations and interests within and outside the team
- Dealing with different roles and hierarchies
- Stategic positioning and lateral leadership
Content:
The strategic orientation of one's own research group or professorship is a key prerequisite for academic success. The range of requirements - from acquiring third-party funding to publications and excellent teaching - is extensive. In addition, it is important to master the transition phase, i.e. starting work as a group leader or professor, and to position yourself strategically in the research and university environment. In this workshop, you will learn how to deal with the various role expectations and receive tools to organize your management area efficiently and effectively. The workshop also includes strategies for lateral leadership, which are particularly important as a group leader and young professor.
Methods:
Theoretical impulses, best practice examples, practical exercises, peer group exchange and discussion
- Target group: Junior Faculty of the UA Ruhr universities (Habilitation Candidates, Junior Research Group Leaders, Junior Professors)
- Participants: max. 12
- Trainer: Prof. Dr. Uta Bronner
- Registration deadline: 27 June 2025
- Contact for organizational questions: Dr. Maria Verena Peters, TU Dortmund
Onboarding & Framework Program
Regular, exclusive workshops as well as information and networking events cover the topics and further training needs that correspond to the special challenges of this job profile. They also enable exchange and networking on a peer level.
Review Meeting & Mentoring
The program also provides individual advice and support for Dortmund assistant professors in the form of review meetings. Two review meetings take place during the qualification phase: Before the interim evaluation with the Dean of the respective department and after the interim evaluation with the Vice President Research.
The JProf TU mentoring complements the review meetings and offers the opportunity to reflect on goals, strategies, and career perspectives with a senior researcher with whom there is no dependent relationship. A mentor can be someone who (1) holds a W2/W3 professorship at the department or is related to the subject, and (2) has been at TU Dortmund University for at least 2 years. The mentorings are organized centrally. The arrangement is bilateral between assistant professor and mentor.
With an overview of assistant professors and their main research areas, TU Dortmund University gives these researchers visibility. All assistant professors at TU Dortmund University are regularly kept up to date on the target group-specific offers via a semester mailing.
Further information on JProf TU can also be found in the concept paper.
Contact person for JProf TU
The „Juniorprofessur“ (here translated as "assistant professorship") is an independent career track to a full professorship in the German academic system, introduced to replace the traditional track requiring a habilitation.
Assistant professors are expected to conduct independent research as well as to teach and supervise at (under-)graduate level. They have a limited term of six years, during which they are given the opportunity to establish their own research agendas and academic profiles.
“Juniorprofessuren” are not always tenured, but advertised as positions with or without tenure. In both cases, a formal evaluation procedure is defined, see https://berufung.tu-dortmund.de/en/appointment-procedure/interim-evaluation/ to learn more regarding the interim evaluation at TU Dortmund University.
Qualification in the framework program:
In addition to these qualification opportunities, the framework program ProfTU keeps you up to date on current developments in the fields:
- Good scientific practice
- Research data management
- Teaching methods
Upcoming events in the qualification program for assistant professors can be found on our events page and at the top of this page.
