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The Division II – Informatics, Economics, and Society, Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), KIT Department of Economics and Management, offers for the earliest possible date a
Tenure-Track Professorship (W1) "Transformative Energy System Analysis"
We are looking for an internationally recognized personality in an early phase of their academic career with potential for outstanding research work in the field of system analytical energy research. Transformative Energy System Analysis, in particular heat transition, aims to research factors influencing the transformation to a climate-friendly energy supply. These primarily include economic incentive structures, regulatory framework conditions, socio-technical and techno-economic interrelationships as well as acceptance by relevant stakeholders in this field.
The tenure-track-professorship (W1) “Transformative Energy System Analysis" is part of one of the four interdisciplinary real-world laboratories in which KIT focuses on transformative research as an interface to society. In each of the real-world labs, one professorship from the humanities, social sciences or economics and one from the technical and natural sciences work together intensively. With the real-world-lab professorships, KIT is pursuing a unique interdisciplinary approach. The program is part of the application under the guiding theme of “Living the change", with which KIT was successful in the Excellence Strategy. The cooperation in the real-world laboratory enables the conception and implementation of real-world experiments to generate transformative knowledge. The tenure-track-professorship (W1) “Transformative Energy System Analysis" deals with the economic and social science side of a tandem in which the decentralized energy transition, with a focus on heat supply, is researched in cooperation with systems engineering research and transformation-oriented systems analysis.
The tenure-track professorship (W1) “Transformative Energy System Analysis" is to be located in the Helmholtz research task at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) to lead its research group for Transformative Energy System Analysis. Participation in large-scale research in the KIT program Energy System Design (ESD) is expected, as is active involvement in the KIT Energy Center.
Through teaching, you will strengthen the offering of the KIT-Department of Economics and Management by active participation in the basic and specialization program in the field of Energy Economics of the Bachelor's and Master's degree programs in Business and Economics. In particular, you will contribute to the expansion of the English-language specialization program by developing courses on the topic of Transformative Energy System Analysis. Teaching takes place at the Institute for Industrial Production (IIP).
You will execute large-scale research tasks with a teaching obligation of 6 hours per week per semester, if you have been evaluated positively. In other cases, your teaching obligation will be 4 hours per week per semester.
Employment is subject to Art. 14, par. (2) of the KIT Act in conjunction with Art. 51 LHG Baden-Württemberg (Act of Baden-Württemberg on Universities and Colleges) as well as to the Quality Assurance Concept for Junior Professorships and Tenure-track Professorships at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
As a family-friendly university, KIT offers part-time employment, leaves of absence, a dual career service, and coaching to support the work-life balance.
We prefer to balance the number of employees (f/m/d). Therefore, we kindly ask female applicants to apply for this job.
Recognized severely disabled persons will be preferred if they are equally qualified.
Employment is limited to six years as a civil servant for a fixed term or as a salaried employee. Before the expiry of the third year of work, an interim evaluation will take place. The evaluation procedure and evaluation criteria are outlined in the Quality Assurance Concept for Junior Professorships and Tenure-track Professorships at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Specific interim and final evaluation criteria will include excellent publications on an international level, third-party funds acquired, very good performance in teaching, future-oriented cooperation within and outside the KIT as well as academic commitment.
In case of a positive final evaluation, you will be offered a full professorship (W3).
Please mail your application with the relevant documents (curriculum vitae, list of publications, three selected publications, diplomas / certificates, teaching evaluations, description of previous and planned research and teaching activities, research and teaching concept, description of your own contributions in the above-mentioned areas, acquired third-party funds, statement on scientific honesty) until April 16, 2024 using the vacancy number 1117/2024, preferably as a single PDF file, to Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT),Division II, Head of Division Professor Michael Decker, Kaiserstr. 12, D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany, email: dekan@wiwi.kit.edu. For further information, please contact Dr. Marc Wouters, e-mail: marc.wouters@kit.edu.
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