One path open to you after you successfully complete your studies is the pursuit of a doctorate. At the Faculty of Physics, Mathematics, and Computer Science, doctoral candidates benefit from superb research conditions, state-of-the-art technical equipment, and the opportunity to collaborate with leading experts in their field in an international and interdisciplinary environment. A doctorate leads to promising career opportunities not only in academia, but also in industry, where highly qualified scientists are increasingly in demand.
Habilitation is one of the ways to provide the required proof of outstanding scientific achievement and didactic skills you need for a professorship. With the professorial dissertation on the one hand and a public habilitation lecture including a colloquium on the other, candidates demonstrate that they can fulfill the requirements in research and teaching.
In Rhineland-Palatinate, habilitated persons are entitled to call themselves “associate professor”(“Privatdozent(in)”). They are authorized to teach at the higher education institution where they completed their habilitation.
Assessment is based on the professional and didactic qualifications of the applicant and their suitability for independent teaching as a professor, based on previous achievements, as well as
Special written and oral achievements within the framework of the habilitation procedure.
Having earned a doctorate: doctoral degree (or equivalent academic degree from a foreign scientific higher education institution) in the desired habilitation subject (a doctoral degree in a field other than the desired field can also be recognized)
Experience in academic teaching: teaching activity over several semesters (at least 2 different lectures)
Professorial dissertation: specially prepared scientific treatise or a series of thematically related scientific works
Habilitation lecture with colloquium: lecture of approximately 30 minutes in duration, immediately followed by an academic discussion, which may also extend to basic questions of the desired habilitation subject; open to members of the faculty
The GCC (formerly Gutenberg Council for Young Researchers) is one of JGU’s central institutions for the promotion of scientists and artists in early career phases. It provides a range of funding instruments and contributes to interdisciplinary exchange through position papers and events. In addition, the GCC organizes DIES ACADEMICUS every year. This event honors JGU graduates with outstanding scientific achievements.
The PhD Representatives JGU (DoV) are an official body of JGU elected by the doctoral candidates of all faculties. The DoV has the right to participate in various bodies of the university – in particular in the University Senate, in various Senate committees and in the faculty councils. It is composed of doctoral candidates from all faculties.
The Center for Quality Assurance and Development (ZQ) supports JGU’s doctoral candidates with the conception and implementation of the “Allgemeine Promotionskolleg” (“General Postgraduate Program”) and offers a whole range of workshops focused on soft skills.
For habilitation candidates, junior professors, other postdocs, and interested habilitated persons, the Center for Quality Assurance and Development offers a supplementary qualification program titled “Auf dem Weg in die Wissenschaft” (“On the way to a scientific career”).
In order to counteract the decreasing proportion of women as the qualification level increases, JGU particularly supports prospective female scientists and implements a spectrum of equality measures which vary across career phases and faculties. For researchers in the natural sciences and especially in the Cluster of Excellence PRISMA+, the Ada Lovelace Program (ALP) and the Irène Joliot‑Curie‑Program (IJCP) should be mentioned here in particular.
The Gutenberg Research College (GRC) was founded in 2007 as a central strategic instrument to promote cutting-edge research at JGU. The GRC has two functions: On the one hand, it advises the Presidential Board and the University Senate on strategic research issues and, on the other hand, it promotes individual excellence by awarding fellowships to outstanding scientists and artists.
The Gutenberg Teaching Council (GTC) initiates measures for the further development of teaching, academic teaching skills, and study structures at JGU. The promotion of a reflective approach to teaching and learning processes is of particular importance.
In addition to teaching and research, JGU views continuing education as one of its core tasks. The university reacts to the steadily increasing necessity of lifelong learning through the services it offers. It thus contributes to the further qualification of working academics in particular: Here, knowledge on the newest state of research and knowledge is conveyed in a practical manner.
In the continuing education program of the Human Resources Development unit, all employees of JGU can find suitable strategies and professional measures to develop themselves further and thus also contribute to the success of JGU.
Open positions at our faculty can be found on the central websites of JGU.
To apply for advertised positions, please send a PDF file with the required information and documents (curriculum vitae, certificates and diplomas, list of previous teaching activities, list of publications) and up to three central publications to info@phmi.uni-mainz.de, unless otherwise stated in the call for proposals.
