Witten/Herdecke University (UW/H) was founded as Germany’s first private university in 1982. The Faculty of Management, Economics and Society with its two Departments of “Management and Entrepreneurship” and “Philosophy, Politics and Economics” contributes to shaping our future society through teaching and research. It supports students in developing into strong and confident individuals who think critically, act responsibly and have an entrepreneurial spirit.
The Faculty of Management, Economics and Society currently invites applications for the position of
Professor of Quantitative Methods (f/m/d) (equivalent to W2 pay scale)
to be filled at the earliest possible date.
The contract term is initially limited to five years. Upon appointment, criteria for removing this time limit will be discussed with the department. After a positive assessment the professorship will be transformed into a tenured professorship (equivalent to W2 pay scale). For applicants already having a permanent professor position, we may refrain from this limitation.
The newly established professorship will be set up within the Faculty of Management, Economics and Society. In teaching and research it aims to enable students to understand, explain and responsibly help shape decisions and change processes in the economy and in society, while focusing on human beings.
Teaching responsibilities of the holder of this position (m/f/d) include the entire range of the subject of Quantitative Methods in all of the Faculty’s consecutive and non-consecutive programmes.
Suitable candidates must have experience in teaching and developing applied quantitative methods. Furthermore, experiences with modern approaches to collect (e.g., web crawling) and analyse large and / or unstructured data volumes (e.g., big data analytics, text mining) are appreciated. Research and teaching contents must be associated with the Faculty’s core curriculum, to be supported by relevant competence in at least one of the following fields: management, economics or political science. In addition, we expect the candidate to be willing to get involved in the Faculty’s key research areas.
As regards the further development of the Faculty, we explicitly welcome specialisation in the field of data science, as well as active involvement in the development of this field within the Faculty. The holder of the position (m/f/d) must have gained national and international recognition in the fields of research outlined above.
In addition to the general requirements in accordance with § 36 of the NRW Higher Education Act, successful candidates have to furnish proof of teaching aptitude, exceptional competence in academic work, and further academic achievements, in general by holding a junior professorship, a postdoctoral university lecturing qualification (Habilitation) or an equivalent academic degree.
In teaching, experience with and promotion of innovative teaching and learning methods fostering students’ personal responsibility are explicitly welcome. Willingness to get involved in transdisciplinary research, as well as articles successfully published in high-impact journals are required.
Please submit your written application including the appropriate documents as well as a brief outline of your research and teaching concept online (online only) by
30 June 2021
For any questions you may have, please do not hesitate to contact the Chair of the Appointments Committee, Prof. Dr. Erik Strauß (erik.strauss@uni-wh.de).
Witten/Herdecke University explicitly fosters a culture of diversity and inclusion, and is looking forward to applications from such qualified individuals. At the same time, we strive to raise the proportion of women in our research and teaching staff, and therefore explicitly encourage qualified female academics to apply.