Job posting for a W1 junior professorship at Rhineland-Palatinate Technical University Kaiserslautern-Landau
The position is filled in a civil servant for a temporary period of six years. At the earliest after the third and at the latest before the end of the fourth year of employment, an evaluation with an orientation character of the performance level in teaching and research or art takes place.
Your area of responsibility:
The position holder should represent the field of organelle biology in research and teaching. The applicants are expected to have excellent research achievements in the field of plastic homeostasis with a focus on protein, metabolite, lipid or redox homeostasis for the previous career path. As a model system, a eukaryotic microalga should be the focus, and a plant model can also be included. In addition, research approaches to the use of microalgae for biotechnological applications with synthetic biology means are welcome.
Our requirement profile:
The thematic orientation should strengthen the existing research priorities of the Department in Membrane and Systems Biology. In particular, the strengthening of our new TR-SFB initiative “Organellostasis” is expected, in which mechanisms for maintaining homeostasis in chloroplasts and mitochondria are being determined. Furthermore, a connection to one of the specializations of the English-language Master’s degree program Biology is required. For the career path so far, a very good publication performance and the basis for an internationally competitive research profile are expected. In addition, very good didactic skills are desirable, depending on specific thematic orientation and commitment to teaching in the Bachelor’s and Master’s studies. The apprenticeship can be offered in German or English.
The state of Rhineland-Palatinate and the RPTU represent a support concept in which a high presence of teachers at the university location is expected. In addition to the general service requirements, the recruitment requirements regulated in § 54 of the Rhineland-Palatinate Higher Education Act apply.
The RPTU stands for the diversity of all employees. We welcome applications from all interested parties, regardless of their ethnic and social origin, age, religion, gender, disability and sexual orientation or identity. Severely disabled people and persons treated as such will be hired preferentially if they are qualified and suitable (please attach proof of severe disability/equal position to the application).
The RPTU aims to increase the proportion of women in areas where women are underrepresented. Applications from scientists from abroad are expressly welcome.