Tenure-Track Professor for Decision Making

The Department of Computer Science of the Faculty of Science at the University of Tübingen, Germany,
invites applications for the position of

Tenure-Track Professor for Decision Making

Starting date: October 1, 2019

A successful candidate for this position will strengthen the education of students in all computer science programs and cognitive science and will contribute to building up the Master’s program in Machine Learning. The position has a teaching load of four to six teaching hours per week.

The Department of Computer Science seeks applications from outstanding individuals who have a proven international record of excellent research in the area of decision making in machine learning, in particular in one or more of the following research topics:

  • Machine learning algorithms for supporting automatic decision making processes
  • Application of decision making in a range of fields
  • Robust integration of sensor data
  • Robust interpretation of natural language data
  • Reinforcement learning
  • Lifelong machine learning
  • Plausibility and causation of decision processes
  • Implementation and verification of safety critical systems

The professorship will contribute to the Cyber Valley Baden-Württemberg and the new Cluster of Excellence “Machine Learning in Science”. Moreover, active participation in the self-administrative duties of the department is expected.

Required qualifications include an outstanding doctoral thesis in a pertinent field, recognizable potential for internationally visible publications in leading international peer-reviewed journals, successful grant applications, and teaching aptitude.

Applicants for a tenure-track professorship with a PhD from Tübingen must have changed universities after completing their doctorates or have worked in academia for at least two years somewhere other than the University of Tübingen.

If the final evaluation after six years is positive, this professorship will be upgraded to a full (W3) professorship with no re-advertising of the position. Applicants must be in an early stage of their career; those who have completed a habilitation will therefore be excluded.

Detailed information on the criteria underlying the interim evaluation and promotion to the tenured position may be found in our guidelines for tenure review under the following link: https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/faculties/faculty-of-science/faculty/news/job-openings/tenure-track-professorships/. There you can also find information on this employment category.

Tübingen University is particularly interested in applications from female candidates for this position and therefore, strongly encourages women to apply. In line with its internationalization agenda, the university welcomes applications from researchers outside Germany. Disabled candidates will be given preference over other equally qualified applicants.

Applications with supporting documents (cover letter, Curriculum Vitae, list of publications and teaching experience, certificates/diplomas) as well as a teaching statement and a research statement including collaboration plans, along with the completed application form (https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/faculties/faculty-of-science/faculty/service/#c608746) should be sent by email as a single PDF-file to the Dean of the Faculty of Science, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Rosenstiel, University of Tuebingen, Germany (career@mnf.uni-tuebingen.de) by May 30, 2019. Enquiries may be directed to this address.