Apply now: Unite! Visiting Professorship Program at TU Darmstadt

The Unite! Visiting Professorship Program intends to attract outstanding international talents to promote interdisciplinarity in teaching and didactic innovation through international experience. This strategic cooperation format promotes networking with researchers at the Unite! partner universities thus broadening the academic careers of the visiting scientists. Our students likewise will profit from such internationalised teaching experience.

General requirements

The Unite! visiting professorship program is open to all subjects taught and offered at TU Darmstadt. Up to 13 visiting professorships may be supported financially. Primarily, the programme is targeting experienced postdocs, but lecturers and professors in an advanced career phase can also apply. Visiting professors from our Unite! partner universities offer supplementary/elective courses at TU Darmstadt, ideally with new topics. Starting in the winter semester 2025/26, the appointment period should cover the lecture period from mid-October to mid-February and needs to extend over 01.12.2025. A visiting professorship may be established for two years at maximum.

Financial Considerations

For the winter semester 2025/2026, the costs for all 13 available Unite! Visiting Professorships will be fully covered centrally by TU Darmstadt. These positions are intended to be filled for the entire semester. In the case of extensions, the respective Faculties and Institutes at TU Darmstadt will be responsible for covering the additional costs.

Application

In the first step, interested candidates from Unite! partner universities are encouraged to contact departments and institutes directly or through the Unite! team at TU Darmstadt. The candidates should submit a brief biography along with a letter of intent outlining potential courses they could teach at TU Darmstadt and ideas for possible research collaborations.In the second step, interested departments and institutes at TU Darmstadt should submit a short application by March 31st, 2025, via mail to: unite@tu-darmstadt.de including:

• a statement about the added value of teaching at TU Darmstadt and for Unite!
• a proposal for a suitable candidate in form of a recommendation letter (max. 1 – 1 ½ pages)
• an academic curriculum vitae, doctoral certificate and, if existing, postdoctoral qualification to teach at professorial level (recruitment requirements according to § 68 HessHG)

The successful candidates for the visiting professorships will be announced by the end of April 2025.

Further information and contact

In case you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact the Unite! Institutional Coordinator at TU Darmstadt, Dr.-Ing. Nebojša Čamprag, nebojsa.camprag@tu-darmstadt.de  

About TU Darmstadt 

Since TuDa was founded in 1877, it has been one of Germany’s most international universities; as a European technical university, they are committed to European values and European integration. TuDa's home is the metropolitan region Frankfurt-Rhine-Main. Their cutting-edge research is pooled in three fields: Energy and Environment, Information and Intelligence, Matter and Materials. Large-scale, problem-based interdisciplinarity involving the engineering sciences, natural sciences, humanities and social sciences is the hallmark of TuDa's research and study. Learn more about the university here.