TU Dresden is announcing a programme for the promotion of postdoctoral candidates. Twenty “Open Topic Postdoc Positions” are to be filled by November 1, 2017. The search for suitable candidates is already underway. Researchers from all disciplines who are at an advanced stage of their post-doctoral studies will have the opportunity to apply for this new type of position up to March 31, 2017.

The main factor in deciding who should be awarded the positions will be the academic excellence of the applicants in innovative research areas that are compatible with TU Dresden’s general profile. The programme aims to attract young women researchers in particular. The post-doctoral candidates selected will receive an employment contract of between one and two years at TU Dresden or a scholarship, and for the duration of the contract, they will be supported in their application for an autonomous project financed by third-party funding.

The programme has been inspired by the success of the Open Topic Tenure Track Professorships. When the positions for the measure were filled in 2014, this attracted great interest in the international scientific community and the media.

As with the Open Topic Tenure Track Professorships, the Open Topic Postdoc Positions are funded by TU Dresden's Institutional Strategy as part of the Excellence Initiative of the German Federal and State Governments.

Full details of the application procedure are available at http://tu-dresden.de/otpp.