W2 Professorship in Public Transport Systems with Urban and Regional Planning Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal
Reference no.: 056/2026
The Department of Water, Environment, Construction and Safety is seeking to fill the following post by 01.04.2027:
W2 Professorship in Public Transport Systems with Urban and Regional Planning
- Besoldung:
W2 - Arbeitszeit:
16 SWS (full-time) - Standort:
Magdeburg - Dauer:
unlimited
Die Hochschule
With its modern facilities, Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences offers excellent studying and working conditions and prospects for ground-breaking research in the heart of Saxony-Anhalt. As a university of applied sciences that is entitled to award doctorates in its own right, we are proud of our interdisciplinary departments that are distinguished by high quality standards. Our two campuses in Magdeburg and Stendal benefit from excellent transport, academic and research links. Enjoy the family-friendly and healthy working environment as well as a culturally varied and liveable infrastructure.
Contacts
Concerning the professorship
Professor
Dr.-Ing. Torsten Schmidt
Dean: WUBS Dept.
torsten.schmidt@h2.de
Antje Völker,
Appointments Officer in the Rector’s Office
antje.voelker@h2.de
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Join our team!
The Department of Water, Environment, Construction and Safety has a particularly strong re-search focus together with an interdisciplinary and practical orientation and offers a broad spectrum of undergraduate Bachelor’s and consecutive Master's study programmes.
Your new challenge
- You will be responsible for teaching, continuing education and research with a specific application orientation in the following subject area:
- Planning, design and construction of public transport facilities in general and rail facilities specifically
- Urban and regional planning
In the courses on the Bachelor's and Master’s study programmes in Civil Engineering it will be particularly important to you to convey the significance of subject relationships in a practical, application-oriented way.
- You will be committed to strengthening the specialist profile of the Department, will work on an interdisciplinary basis in the context of cross-departmental cooperation predominantly on the Magdeburg campus and will be involved in the development of the range of international programmes offered.
- If necessary, you will be prepared to take on additional teaching duties in the field of Transport Engineering.
- We expect you to successfully develop areas of research emphasis in the area of the appointment and, if the conditions are met, to participate in our Doctoral Centre for Environment and Technology. This will be supported by a research-friendly environment.
- It goes without saying that you will be committed to technology and knowledge transfer and cooperation with regional and national stakeholders as well as to contributing to the development of the university.
- Moreover, it is important for you to be involved in academic self-governance (official language German).
What you offer
You are a good fit for us if you are enthusiastic about teaching and research activities and you meet the conditions of appointment as set out in § 35 of the Saxony-Anhalt Higher Education Act. For the advertised professorship, these criteria are as follows:
- You hold a university degree, preferably in the field of Civil Engineering or Transport Engineering.
- You have a particular aptitude for scientific work, which will generally be evidenced by a qualifying doctorate preferably in the area of the appointment.
- You have pedagogic skills and experience, ideally with experience teaching in universities. You are familiar with modern teaching methods in both face-to-face and online formats.
- You will be able to demonstrate particular achievements in the application or development of scientific knowledge and methods in as many as possible of the following areas:
- Planning and construction of rail transport routes
- Planning of additional transport systems (e.g. bicycle traffic)
- Urban and regional planning
- Digital methods, e.g. BIM or GIS, in the area of the appointment
- You will have accomplished these in professional practice of at least three years’ duration outside of the higher education sector.
- Publications in the area of the appointment, experience in the acquisition of third-party funds and the management of research projects as well as international experience all are highly desirable.
Furthermore, the following qualifications are expected:
- You will have both German and English language skills that enable you to communicate confidently in teaching and research and in everyday life at a German-speaking university.
- Your profile will be completed by the ability to communicate confidently, empathy, leadership experience and team skills.
Would you like to help us give young people a university education?
Then please submit your detailed application via the online portal by 07.07.2026, addressed to the Rector, Professor Dr. Manuela Schwartz. We also look forward to receiving your application if you will only meet the conditions of appointment in the near future (date of decision regarding proposed appointments by the appointment committee). The face-to-face interviews are planned for approximately 3 months after the application deadline. Provided that the relevant requirements are met (assuming, among other things, that the candidate is under the age of 52) the appointee will be appointed with civil servant status with unlimited tenure, otherwise they will be granted salaried employee status under private law for an unlimited period. As we consider face-to-face teaching and the integration of the university in the region to be very important, we assume that in order to meet the requirements of the professorship you will primarily be based in the region.
Modern teaching and equipment
Research and doctoral centres
International networking
Democratic committee structure
Sustainable campus
University events
University sport
Dual career
Library / Online Multimedia Library
Possibility of becoming a civil servant
(if requirements are met)
Reference number
056/2026
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