Junior Professorship or Full Professorship bei Leuphana Universität Lüneburg

30.10.2024 THE SCHOOL OF SUSTAINABILITY AT LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY LÜNEBURG INVITES APPLICATIONS FOR THE FOLLOWING JUNIOR PROFESSORSHIP WITH TENURE TRACK OR FULL PROFESSORSHIP:

Sustainable Chemistry (Open Rank: W1 with tenure track leading to W2 or W2)

Chemistry is a crucial science for sustainability, as it has a significant influence on the material foundations of sustainability (e.g., resources, material flows, products, processes, energy requirements, material environmental impact, digitalization). At the same time, it is directly linked to an industrial sector – the chemical industry and downstream industries, which utilizes its products. The "chemical industry" therefore plays a decisive role in the sustainability discourse in several respects, but also in the concrete achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Thus, the importance of sustainable chemistry in research, teaching and application is receiving increasing attention in science, industry and politics, as well as in the international environment in general. However, further research and developments in teaching are needed to make this understanding fruitful for chemical practice and sustainability and to avoid rebound effects.

The junior professorship with tenure track or the full professorship “Sustainable Chemistry”, located at the School of Sustainability at the Institute for Sustainable Chemistry, is intended to address these deficits. The future position holder is expected to make substantial contributions to the field of sustainable chemistry. This also applies to experimental and practical contributions that shape the discourse. Relevant topics are e.g. specific experimental, modeling and digital approaches, especially digitalization in sustainable chemistry, i.e., the development of new substances, materials, products and processes, for example, the design and use of chemicals for improved service, performance, reduced unwanted end of life impacts on the socio-environment. Furthermore, you will expand and enrich the field of sustainable chemistry and circularity on a local to global scale and you know how to transfer your research into practice, which contributes, to a sustainable transformation. Thus, your engagement in interdisciplinary research and teaching concepts is important to you and you share our interest in common transdisciplinary research and teaching projects. As well, an international profile and a methodically and systematically broad chemistry-based expertise is mandatory for research and teaching. Your work includes an understanding of the role and contributions of chemistry to sustainability in general, considering the SDGs of the UN in science and the industrial sector. A strong interest in research collaboration within the Institute for Sustainable is essential and expected and your focus complements the existing research.

Depending on the applicant's qualifications, the professorship will be filled either as a junior professorship with tenure track (pay grade W1 with tenure track leading to W2) or directly as a permanent university full professorship (pay grade W2). The junior professorship with tenure track is initially limited to a period of three years. The position will be extended for an additional three years, subject to a positive academic evaluation (in accordance with the guidelines for the mid-term evaluation of junior professors of Leuphana University Lüneburg). After six years, a positive tenure evaluation process according to the Tenure-Track Regulations of Leuphana University Lüneburg will lead to a permanent full-time professorship (W2).

For the junior professorship W1 with tenure track leading to W2, we are seeking a committed early-career researcher, who shows promise of excellence in teaching and research as well as unique ideas to impact their field and society. This is demonstrated by your dissertation and/or additional first publications in the field of sustainable chemistry in high-ranking international peer-review journals. Ideally, you have already contributed to newer approaches, involving for example, experimental, modelling, digitalization (e.g., artificial intelligence, machine learning) and other relevant innovative approaches. You have already established your own network including interdisciplinary research cooperations, publications with various co-authors, research stays and/or active participation in scientific conferences. Applicants ideally bring as far as possible initial experience in submitting research proposals applications (e.g. through independent acquisition of grants, collaboration on larger applications, experience with the handling of third-party funding projects, first own successful third-party funding acquisitions) that indicate a successful approach to acquisition of third-party funding as well as supporting the development of a viable third-party funding strategy during the