TUM Tenure Track Assistant Professorships associated with MPG Research Group Leader Positions

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) is the first university in Germany to reinforce its recruitment policy with a comprehensive tenure track system. Based on best international standards and transparent performance criteria, TUM FACULTY TENURE TRACK offers performance-based academic career options for high-potential early-career scientists, from the appointment as Assistant Professor through a permanent position as Associate Professor and on to Full Professor. The Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG) and TUM have developed a joint career program: Successful candidates for a Max Planck Research Group Leader position – see job advertisement of MPG – are invited to apply for a position as Tenure Track Assistant Professor at TUM with doctorate granting rights and career options according to the TUM Faculty Tenure Track system. Therefore, the Technical University of Munich awards TUM Tenure Track Assistant Professorships associated with MPG Research Group Leader Positions in all areas of TUM’s research and teaching portfolio.