About us
A career is more than just a job. And academics is more than a job board. As a specialist for talented people with academic degrees, we offer a large selection of vacancies in Germany, Switzerland and Austria for anyone who wants to shape their professional and social future in a meaningful way – in academia, research, the public sector or the non-profit sector. In addition, the career portal of DIE ZEIT and Forschung & Lehre offers a wide range of services to support you in your professional development: from customised job offers via job mail to extensive advice content and free online seminars on job and career-related topics.
We offer
- The latest jobs in science and research in Germany, Austria & Switzerland
- A free job newsletter - on a daily or weekly basis
- Advisory articles
- Doctorate test
- Online seminars
The history of academics.com
13 June 2005: academics.de, the German-speaking big ‘sister’ of academics.com, is launched. The ZEIT publishing group's press release at the time stated: ‘With the launch of academics.de, DIE ZEIT and the magazine Forschung & Lehre have created a new career portal for academics and young scientists. academics.de, a joint initiative of the two leading print media in the field of teaching and research, thus offers the largest number of current job offers from German-speaking countries in this segment.’ The German Association of University Professors and Lecturers (DHV), publisher of the academic magazine Forschung & Lehre, is a minority shareholder.
4 March 2008: academics goes international and launches academics.com. The press release at the time states: ‘academics.com offers an extensive English-language job market in German-speaking countries to attract highly qualified scientists and researchers from abroad. In addition to the German-language online job advertisements in the ZEIT and on academics.de, teaching and research institutions have the opportunity to reach the international research community with a job advert in the English-language environment - without much additional effort.’
6 June 2013: Websites for academics.de and academics.com optimised for mobile devices go live. > Press release
15 June 2015: Christian Röpke becomes Managing Director of academics alongside Matthias Weidlung; he replaces Thorsten Abs, who will act as an advisor to the ZEIT publishing group in future. Röpke, who was also Managing Director of ZEIT ONLINE, held this position until his move to the ZEIT publishing management as Chief Product Officer in 2024. > Press release
6 December 2017: Relaunch with responsive design – academics.de and academics.com underwent an intensive and comprehensive overhaul over the course of a year and appeared in a completely new design at the end of 2017. The press release also states: ‘The functionality, including the entire technical infrastructure, has been redesigned and optimised. Thanks to the responsive design, all content will be accessible from all end devices in future.’
1 February 2019: Dirk Mussenbrock takes over as Director Recruiting and Talent Solutions at academics and the study orientation service HeyStudium. > Press release
1 January 2020: Enrique Tarragona joins Christian Röpke in the management of academics. > Press release
May 2020: academics expands its range of services to include free online seminars on all aspects of job applications and job searches for registered users.
7 March 2024: Dr Hanna Proner and Dirk Mussenbrock are appointed to the academics management board alongside Enrique Tarragona. > Press release
2023/24: academics gets another new look & feel. Gradually, topic, guide and service pages as well as the job market and social channels will be relaunched in a completely new design and with new functions.
Our partners
DIE ZEIT
DIE ZEIT is the most influential weekly newspaper in Germany and reaches well over two million readers in a week. The “Wissen II” section forms the largest superregional job market for academic professions in German-speaking countries. Every vacancy advertised in print in the ZEIT is also posted online at academics.com.
German Association of University Professors and Lecturers (Deutscher Hochschulverband, DHV)
As the professional organisation representing academics in Germany, the DHV campaigns for good working conditions in academia and fights for the freedom of research and teaching. With services ranging from career counselling, coaching and seminars to support with job searches and applications, the DHV guides academics and scientists from the postdoc phase upwards towards their career goals. With around 33,500 members, the DHV is the largest interdisciplinary association of academics in Europe.
Forschung & Lehre [Research & Tuition]
The magazine Forschung & Lehre [Research & Tuition] is the highest-circulation journal on higher education policy and science in Germany. It is published by the Deutsche Hochschulverband, the professional representative body for university professors and young researchers. Forschung & Lehre readers include university professors, young researchers, scientific journalists, and decision-makers in politics, business, and university administration.