W3 Professorship for Mobile Machines and Commercial Vehicles

Technische Universität Braunschweig

Technische Universität Braunschweig is one of Germany’s leading institutes of technology and offers an inspiring work environment with a wide range of research and teaching opportunities in state-of-the-art facilities. The 3,800 members of our academic, technical and administrative staff – including more than 400 international scientific staff – work together to ensure that our university successfully fulfils its mission of providing excellent teaching for our approximately 16,000 students and 100 trainees. We focus our research on mobility, metrology, engineering for health, and the future city. Our core disciplines include a comprehensive engineering division and a strong natural sciences division, closely linked with business sciences, social sciences, educational sciences, and the humanities. Our university is located at the heart of one of Europe’s most research-intensive regions. We cooperate closely with the more than 20 internationally renowned research institutions in our vicinity and our network extends to our partner universities in Germany and all over the world, with whom we maintain strong relationships.

We offer a

W3 Professorship for Mobile Machines and Commercial Vehicles

The position is scheduled to be filled by October 1, 2026, or earlier.

Your responsibilities

The Institute for Mobile Machines and Commercial Vehicles is a core institute that delivers fundamental and application-oriented contributions to the field of automotive engineering and mobile machines in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and the Lower Saxony Research Center for Vehicle Technology (NFF). The professorship is assigned to the TU Braunschweig's core research area "Mobility" and also collaborates with other core research areas on an interdisciplinary basis. The institute has excellent links with federal research institutions through joint projects and courses. Mobile machinery and heavy commercial vehicles, as well as their application systems, form the technological basis for research. Building on existing expertise, future research and teaching can focus on the following areas:

• Development and evaluation of new functions and designs for mobile machines and heavy commercial vehicles
  including basic research on process technology with DEM, design of new machine and vehicle structures, holistic evaluation with process simulation
• Innovative drive systems for vehicle and process drive
  including cross-domain, data-networked drive systems, intelligent operating strategies, mobile hydraulic circuits, degradable hydraulic fluids
• Digital networking and intelligent automation, agricultural robotics
  including environmental perception in complex environments, AI applications, process, machine, and system automation, safety concepts, communication in multi-machine systems

The successful candidate (f/m/d) will be expected to manage an institute with approximately 30 employees and to conduct research and teaching in the above-mentioned areas. The diverse research topics are to be developed using engineering methods based on systemic approaches. The use of domain-specific software tools combined with experimental investigation is just as much a matter of course as the holistic evaluation of the results in the context of their application. An extensive software pool is available for this purpose, and the institute has numerous mobile and stationary test benches and a very well-equipped workshop. In teaching, basic courses are expected to be offered for all bachelor's and master's programs in the faculty, as well as advanced courses for students, particularly in the fields of automotive engineering and mobile systems, mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, industrial engineering, battery and hydrogen technology, and sustainable engineering for products and processes. The successful candidate (f/m/d) is expected to be committed to the university’s strategic goals and to actively shape its holistic development (https://www.tu-braunschweig.de/hochschulentwicklung). In addition to the classic service areas of a university (research, teaching and studies, transfer, governance and administration), this applies in particular to digitalisation, internationalisation, equality and diversity, as well as knowledge exchange.

Our expectations

• Proven expertise in the field of mobile machinery and heavy commercial vehicles from relevant activities in industry, at universities, or at research institutions
• Ability to enthusiastically implement, coordinate, and manage interdisciplinary research projects and networks
• International professional experience and a very good command of the English language
• Willingness to teach in German and English in bachelor's and master's degree programs
• Willingness to participate in the self-administration of the university
• Willingness to contribute to the internationalisation of the university and to participate in and take on management tasks in international research
• Willingness to work closely in research and teaching with working groups from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and other faculties at TU Braunschweig, and in particular within the Lower Saxony Research Center for Vehicle Technology (NFF) and the core research area "Mobility".
• Willingness to cooperate with federal research institutes in the central research areas of the professorship (Julius Kühn Institute, Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute, Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy) and also institutes of the Fraunhofer Society and the German Aerospace Center (DLR)
• Experience with and willingness to acquire third-party funding and to manage and implement basic and application-oriented third-party funded projects

We encourage candidates (f/m/d) to apply if they fulfil the essential criteria. International research and teaching experience, excellent command of the English language, as well as the ability and willingness to teach courses in English are a prerequisite. We encourage candidates (f/m/d) to apply if they fulfil the essential criteria. Individual career decisions and career breaks due to parental/​family care leave affecting research output will be taken into account by the appointment committee.

Requirements, § 25 NHG

• A degree in a relevant field
• Pedagogical aptitude
• Special qualification for in‑depth independent scientific work, as a rule proven by an above-average doctorate
• Additional academic achievements, usually within the framework of a junior professorship, a postdoctoral degree (Habilitation) or achievements equivalent to a Habilitation

Notes

Technische Universität Braunschweig makes personnel decisions on the basis of suitability, ability and professional performance. Our aim is to increase the share of women in academic positions. Therefore, we particularly welcome applications from women and will give preference to female candidates with equivalent qualifications. People with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply and, if equally qualified, will be given preference in the appointment process. Technische Universität Braunschweig is certified as a family-friendly university. We are committed to facilitating a healthy and productive work-life balance and offer a dual career service as well as support for newly appointed staff. Our Family Office provides advice on all issues relating to family, childcare, and caring for relatives. Our “Prof.-Programm” offers exclusive status-related exchange and consulting formats, in particular to newly appointed professors. Professional and Personnel Development promotes the professional development of all employees through a wide range of courses and activities. The university actively endorses equal opportunities and diversity and promotes diverse perspectives as essential in contributing to the university’s success in research, teaching, transfer and administration. We particularly invite applications from international candidates (f/m/d). German language skills are not a prerequisite. However, the successful candidate (f/m/d) is expected to acquire sufficient language skills to perform teaching and administrative duties in German within three years of appointment. Even though this is a permanent full-time position, a part-time appointment may be possible upon request. Applicants (f/m/d) who are 50 years or older at the time the appointment commences and who have not acquired permanent civil servant status (Beamten­verhältnis auf Lebenszeit) will be employed with employee status (Angestellten­verhältnis).