Professorships
Unfold the Potential. Together.
Develop your full potential as a professor at Reutlingen University. We offer excellent conditions, freedom and networks to shape the future together with students. Achieve top positions in the most relevant university rankings at an attractive green location in the midst of one of the strongest economic regions in Europe.
Formal requirements
The hiring requirements for professors are regulated in §47 Landeshochschulgesetz (LHG) Baden-Württemberg:
- Doctoral degree (or proof of special qualification for artistic practice).
- Pedagogical aptitude (e.g. through teaching experience, advanced and further training in university didactics)
- 5 years of professional experience (at least 3 of which were gained outside an institution of higher education)
Salary & bonuses
- Remuneration comprises a basic monthly salary, any performance bonuses and a family allowance, where applicable
- The basic monthly salary for professorships is regulated by the collective wage agreement and laid out in the "Besoldungstabellen" (salary tables) of the "Landesamt für Besoldung" (State Office for Salaries).
Further education
Reutlingen University aims to support you in learning new didactic approaches and developing your teaching personality. To this end, we offer a variety of advanced and further training formats in the field of didactics, communication, methodology and many more.
Project "FH-Personal"
Within the context of the "FH-Personal" programme, the Federal Government and the Länder promote concepts for sustainable personnel recruitment at universities of applied sciences. The goal is thus to improve the recruitment and professional development of professors. At Reutlingen University, the project is being implemented as the "professoRTalent" project.
Project "FH-Personal"
- Optimisation of personnel recruitment, especially optimised recruitment of diverse target groups and passive seekers.
- Increasing the visibility and attractiveness of the university as an employer, as well as the career profile of the HAW professorship.
- Further professionalisation of appointment procedures. These are to be made more diversity- and gender-sensitive.
- Early promotion of potential candidates for professorships
- Improve internal processes (e.g. onboarding, implementation of flexible part-time models, reduction of teaching load).
| Project Management ProfessoRTalent | Prof. Dr. Petra Kneip Tel.: +49 7121 271 4126 |
Talent Pool Young Professionals | Dr. Louisa Söllner |
| Appointment Processes and Quality Management | Melanie Bitzer Tel.: +49 7121 271 1098 |
| staRTyourProfessorship | Dr. Esther Dusil Tel.: +49 7121 271 1153 |
| staRTyourProfessorship | Gisela Hamal Tel.: +49 7121 271 1030 |
As a professor at a university of applied sciences (HAW), you are in a unique position to impart knowledge and orientation to young people, to introduce them to career and development opportunities and, at the same time, to enjoy a substantial degree of personal freedom and independent decision-making.
Prof. Dr. Dirk Schieborn
ESB Business School
At Reutlingen University you work with the latest technology on an extraordinary variety of current topics which you can integrate into your lectures. I highly value this freedom and the opportunity it brings; the potential for broadening your own horizon is fantastic!
Prof. Anja Hartmann
School of Informatics
Some of the benefits of teaching at a HAW include comparatively small class sizes combined with a fantastic opportunity for immediate exchange. Oftentimes, students also have prior practical knowledge in a given subject. This creates room for detailed discussion of a specific issue and enables students to collaborate on real-life tasks.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Arnd Buschhaus
School of Engineering
I particularly value being able to shape the future! On the one hand, of course, this refers to the students, whom I can support in developing their talents. On the other hand, as a professor I have the opportunity to work with colleagues on the challenges of our time and to explore possible solutions.
Prof. Dr. Petra Kneip
ESB Business School
The idea of pursuing a professorship developed over many years. During and even after my studies, I held training courses and gave lectures. I have always enjoyed working with young, open-minded adults.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Marcus Schöller
School of Informatics
For me, it is always a special experience to witness and accompany the development of young people from the start of their studies to their academic graduation. Sometimes it is even the students' final theses that initiate research and development projects. Besides, Reutlingen University encourages research activities by providing very well structured (academic) support.
Prof. Dr. Barbara Priwitzer
School of Engineering
Skin without humans & beef without cows
Prof. Dr. Petra Kluger is Professor for Tissue Engineering and Biofabrication at the School of Life Sciences and researches, among other things, ways of replicating human skin in the laboratory and thus making a significant contribution to the animal-free testing of new medicines and cosmetics.
Giving back to the leaders of tomorrow
Prof. Dr. Maud Schmiedeknecht is Professor for Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsiblity and conducts research on sustainable business practices. "It is so important that students (...) develop skills and learn methods to (re)design sustainable business models and processes".
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