The Charité is one of the largest university hospitals in Europe representing a single medical faculty that serves both Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin. Clinical care, research and teaching is delivered by physicians and researchers of the highest international standard. The Charité extends across four campuses, and has close to 100 different Departments and Institutes, which form a total of 17 different CharitéCenters. The Charité has been awarded the certificates ‘family-friendly employer’ (audit berufundfamilie®) and ‘family-friendly university’ (audit familiengerechte hochschule®) and is a member of the “Dual Career Network Berlin” (www.dualcareer-berlin.de).

The professorship mentioned below is one of four Full-Professorships (tenured) in the broader immunological field at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin - see https://career.charite.de

The Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin within the CharitéCenter 12 for Internal Medicine and Dermatology invite applications for the following position

Full Professorship in Medical Immunology

Salary Group W3 BBesG ÜfBE – tenured
Successor of Prof. Dr. Hans-Dieter Volk
(Reference Number: 563/2020)

The employment occurs as a professor with an employment contract in accordance with § 102 Abs. 5 BerlHG.

It is planned to bring together and integrate bench-based research of the Clinic mentioned below into a jointly operated “Department of Immunology“. The successful candidates will be founding Directors of the “Department of Immunology“ at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin. As part of the application, each candidate should explicitly state her/his vision for the “Department of Immunology“ including research topics, required technologies and strategies for career development of personnel and to present it in a separate section in the application documents.

The further holder is expected to fulfil the following responsibilities and criteria

• Responsibility for medical immunology in Research and Teaching (and if necessary Patient Care) at all Camps of the Charité
• Head of the Institute of Medical Immunology at the Charité, including personnel and financial management
• In case of appropriate professional suitability/qualification: Co-Management of the Immunology Department at Labor Berlin GmbH
• Development of a future-oriented scientific concept and internationally networked structure in the field of Medical Immunology
• Proof of outstanding research achievements in die field of Medical Immunology with focus on molecular and cellular mechanism of the immune system
• Proof of successful attainment of competitive third-party funding for research projects
• Experience and commitment in teaching, excellent didactic skills and willingness to actively participate in the design of the model study programme in medicine. Teaching obligations are based on the Teaching Obligation Ordinance for Berlin (LVVO).
• Integration in other relevant research areas of the Charité (www.charite.de) and in interfaculty research networks/Graduate Schools as well as research projects of the CharitéCenter 12 and Berlin Institute of Health (BIH)
• Cooperation with the preclinical and clinical facilities of the Charité and other institutions in Berlin and Brandenburg, especially the DRFZ, the Experimental and Clinical Research Center (ECRC) and the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC)
• Consideration of gender and diversity both in terms of research content and personnel

The Charité seek to fill this position with a nationally and internationally renowned and scientifically excellent personality, who will structurally develop the scientific activities in the field of Medical Immunology and further strengthen the future-oriented profile in this area.

Qualifications:
According to the higher education act of Berlin for hiring professors (§ 100 BerlHG), the academic prerequisites for this position include either a professorship, junior professorship, postdoctoral lecturer qualification (habilitation), or equivalent scientific achievement including qualified teaching experience or a similar qualification. Furthermore, a completed university degree as well as doctorate (M.D.), ideally in medicine as well as a completed specialization in “Internal Medicine” or comparable qualification is required. Alternative: completed university degree as well as doctorate in natural sciences with relevant expertise in the field of immunology or comparable qualification. International applicants must have a German language diploma/certificate (according to the Conference of Ministers of Culture) at C2 level.

The responsibility, in case of appropriate professional suitability/qualification, of the Co-Management of the Immunology Department at Labor Berlin within the professorship is regulated by a contract for chief physicians. The subject of the contract are the tasks associated with the Co-Management of the Department, including the treatment of private patients. The previous right to liquidate will be replaced by performance-related remuneration with fixed and variable components.

The Charité committed to increasing the proportion of women among the scientific personnel, therefore we strongly encourage women to apply. Women will be given preference over equally qualified men (within the framework of the legal possibilities). We value diversity and therefore welcome all applications - regardless of gender, nationality, social background, religion or age. Equally qualified applicants with disabilities will be given preference.

Written applications according to the format specified on https://career.charite.de/am/calls/application_notes.pdf should be submitted by January 29, 2021 at https://career.charite.de. As part of the requested short concept for the professorship please submit a proposal of 2-3 pages in German and/or English outlining your ideas on future research and how these will tie in with the existing entities at Charité and other research institutions (BIH, MDC, DRFZ).