The HIU is currently looking for applicants from the fields of electrochemistry, chemistry, physics or material sciences for a tenure track professorship in applied electrochemistry. The position with its own young investigator group will be located at the HIU and at the KIT Faculty of Chemistry and Biosciences. This junior professorship (W1) with tenure track is funded by a joint program of the federal republic and the federal states to foster young academics.
The new research group will focus on issues relating to the development of innovative energy storage materials. This includes their synthesis and the characterization of their physico- and electrochemical properties and, in particular, the investigation of structure-activity relationships for electrochemical energy storage devices and its components (electrodes, electrolyte and the corresponding interfaces) – especially for lithium-ion and post-lithium-ion systems. The extensive basic equipment for the position, the infrastructure of the HIU as well as the manifold cooperation possibilities with research groups at the locations Ulm and Karlsruhe enable successful research at an internationally leading battery research institute.
The successful candidate will be employed for four years and in case of a positive intermediate evaluation the employment will be extended to six years. In case of a positive final evaluation, the successful candidate will be permanently appointed as professor
The new federal republic-federal states program will for the first time established the tenure track professorship nationwide at universities in Germany. For many young scientists, the path to a professorship will become considerably more transparent and predictable: After a successful probationary phase, the tenure track professorship provides for the immediate transition to a lifetime professorship. The aim is to fund a total of 1,000 tenure track professorships by 2032. To this end, the federal government will provide a total of up to one billion euros from 2017.
