Open Topic Tenure Track Professorships
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From June 2015 to February 2016, the research topics of the Open Topic Professorships were presented in a series of lectures under the heading “Wanzen, Wahn und Wertewandel” (Bugs, madness and changing values). The lecture series took place in the Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek (SLUB).
The Open Topic Tenure Track Professorships (OTTP) are a core element of TUD's Institutional Strategy in terms of financial provision and long-term effectiveness.
The Open Topic Professorships Programme is TU Dresden’s entirely innovative way of attracting and keeping the best and most original young scholars from around the world. The appointment procedure did not follow the usual path of a classical application; instead it was based on an active recruitment process. The hunt for applicants took place independently of links to particular disciplines, categories or descriptions of functions ("open topic"). The major factors were solely the potential appointee’s excellence in their field and innovative power they would bring to scientific work at the TU Dresden.
Particular attention focused on outstanding young scientists who already demonstrated an exceptional level of potential in their research work at an early stage of their academic careers.
The Open Topic Professorships lead to a merit-based tenure track proposition after five years.
Prof. Martin KELLER-RESSEL
OTT-Chair of Stochastic Analysis and Financial Mathematics
Prof. Lars KOCH
OTT-Chair of Media Studies and Modern German Literature
Prof. Andrés Fabián LASAGNI
OTT-Chair of Laserstructuring in Manufacturing Technology
Prof. Sabine MÜLLER-MALL
OTT-Chair of Legal and Constitutional Theory
Prof. Stefan NEUKAMM
Prof. Klaus REINHARDT
Selection Procedure
The advertisment for the Open Topic Tenure Track Professorships was published internationally in April 2013 in various printed and online media (e.g. "DIE ZEIT", „Science" and NATURE Online). TU Dresden received more than 1.300 applications from all over the world, thereof 500 applications from abroad.
A selection committee consisting of 12 external top-class members from the scientific community assembled a short list of 26 candidates to be invited to TU Dresden for further evaluation. From mid-October to the beginning of November 2013, each candidate spent a couple of days at TUD for lectures and evaluation talks with the faculties as well as for visits to institutes and external institutions of interest.
At the same time, six external approval certificates per candiate were collected. Those certificates together with references from the faculties formed the basis for the final recommendations by the selection committee.
SELECTION COMMITTEE:
- Chairman: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Kleiner
Professor for Conversion Technolgy, Technische Universität Dortmund, and former President of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), now President of the Leibniz-Community - Prof. Dr. Roger S. Goody
Director Max-Planck-Institut für molekulare Physiologie, Dortmund - Prof. Dr. Hans-Jochen Heinze
Director Universitätsklinik für Neurologie Magdeburg - Prof. Dr. Kai A. Konrad
Director Max-Planck-Institut für Steuerrecht und Öffentliche Finanzen, Munich - Dr. Wilhelm Krull
Secretary General VolkswagenStiftung Hannover and Chairman Bundesverband Deutscher Stiftungen - Prof. Dr. Dr. Franz-Josef Radermacher
Professor for Computer Sciences, Universität Ulm - Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Raible
Professor Emeritus for Romanic Philology and General Linguistics, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg - Prof. Dr. Renée Schroeder
Professor for RNA Bio-Chemistry, Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie, Universität Wien - Prof. Dr.-Ing. Werner Sobek
Civil Engineer and Architect, Director Institut für Leichtbau Entwerfen und Konstruieren (ILEK), Universität Stuttgart - Prof. Dr. Hildegard Westphal
Director Leibniz-Zentrum für Marine Tropenökologie, Bremen - Prof. Dr. Margret Wintermantel
President Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) - Prof. Dr. Günter M. Ziegler
Professor for Mathematics, Freie Universität Berlin
Press Review
(articles in German only)
- Neue Professuren an der TU Dresden: Forscher ohne Grenzen (Spiegel Online; November 11, 2014)
- Ein Prof. für alle Fälle (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung; October 28, 2014)
- „Dresden beschreitet Neuland" (Deutsche Universitätszeitung/duz Karriere Letter 07/14; September 5, 2014)
- Professur für Irgendwas (Deutschlandfunk Online; Juni 18, 2014)
- Wer die Wahl hat, hat die Qual.
Article by the rector Prof. Hans-Müller Steinhagen in the magazine "Forschung & Lehre", June 2014
TU Dresden's Institutional Strategy was funded by the Excellence Initiative of the German Federal and State Governments.