We are at your disposal...
...if you being at the end of your Ph.D. studies would like to get information on doing a postdoc, on further steps and the conditions of academic careers (like the "Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz"),
...if you would like to know how you can benefit from your skills for taking steps into different professional fields and acquire further competencies,
...if you have questions on mobility or the compatibility between family and working life. These topics are examples.
Please do not hesitate to talk on any topic that is relevant to your work as a postdoc.
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Postdoc at Leibniz University Hannover
The typical way to a professorship is, in Germany, the ‘habilitation’ (qualifying for a professorship). The faculty-specific regulations mention and explain the prerequisites and criteria for the ‘habilitation’:
- Architecture and Landscape
- Civil Engineering and Civil Science
- Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Law
- Mechanical Engineering
- Mathematics and Physics
- Natural Sciences
- Humanities
- Economics and Management
Nevertheless, the ways to get a professorship have become more diversified, and different, so-called ‘habilitation equivalent’ achievements can help you to be appointed professor. These accomplishments can be filling positions as a research group leader or a junior professor. You can find these and further jobs of Leibniz University Hannover on the university's website Job Exchange.Further job offers for postdocs are to be found here:
The International Office gives information to visiting researchers:
Tenure Track Professorships and the programme Fast Track to Tenure offer attractive career perspectives to excellent researchers. Further information can be found here. -
Funding for Postdocs
For all questions on how to fund your postdoc, please contact:
Dezernat 4 - Forschung und EU-Hochschulbüro, Technologietransfer
For a successful academic career, it is recommended to change the university/institution at least once during your Ph.D. studies and/or your postdoc. You will get information on organising and funding your research stays in the International Office.
Research stays, conferences and workshops can as well be funded by the Graduate Academy.
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Information and Qualification for your Academic Career
The Graduate Academy offers each semester numerous workshops on extra-disciplinary topics that address as well or even in particular postdocs. Please find more information here.
For concise information on academic careers and those close to research, please join us as well in our lunch talk series “Science as a vocation”.
If you want to know more about how to attract third-party funds properly, then the workshops offered by Dezernat 4 Forschung und EU-Hochschulbüro, Technologietransfer are just right for you.
Moreover, if you aim at improving your teaching skills in higher education, then you should not miss the workshops in university didactics.
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General Conditions of your Employment as a Postdoc
The ‘Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz” forms the framework of your time as a postdoc and the further academic career before becoming a professor. This German law allows a limited in time employment up to six years after a doctoral degree.
The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (in German) gives information on its website about it. In individual cases, the Personnel and legal department of Leibniz University Hannover and the Graduate Academy will be at your disposal.
Furthermore, Leibniz University Hannover offers attractive employment conditions for research staff and recommend certain durations of contracts. Further information is to be found here (in German).
An appointment can be directly made with:
© Moritz Küstner
30167 Hannover
© Moritz Küstner
