W3-Professorship for the subject area “Macroeconomics”

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Faculty VII - Economics and Managements, Institute of Economics and Law

W3-Professorship for the subject area “Macroeconomics”

About us

Technische Universität Berlin is an Excellence University within the Berlin University Alliance, with around 35,000 students, approximately 350 professors, and around 7,000 employees. We value the diversity of our members, pursue the goals of equal opportunity, and are certified as a family-friendly university. The field to be filled represents teaching and research in the fundamentals, methods, and applications of macroeconomics, with a focus on the macroeconomics of technological progress and sustainable development in economic, ecological, and social terms, e.g. in digitalization and the labor market, technological progress and climate change, or comparable areas.

Your responsibility

Your profile

• The hiring requirements according to § 100 ff. BerlHG must be fulfilled. These include
  o a completed, relevant university degree with a specialization in disciplines relevant to macroeconomics,
  o special aptitude for academic work, usually demonstrated by the quality of a doctoral degree,
  o additional academic achievements, e.g. a positively evaluated junior professorship, habilitation, or equivalent qualifications,
  o teaching aptitude, demonstrated through your teaching portfolio (see ).
• In-depth academic knowledge in the field of macroeconomics, preferably in the two aforementioned research fields, as demonstrated by publications (peer-reviewed) in leading international journals of economics, is essential.
• Several years of subject-specific teaching experience in macroeconomics is required.
• Experience in acquiring third-party funding, preferably DFG (German Research Foundation) funding, is welcome.
• As an internationally oriented university, we expect the ability to teach in both German and English, or the willingness to acquire the necessary language skills within a reasonable timeframe.
• Experience with interdisciplinary collaboration, science communication, and knowledge transfer is desirable, as is
• experience in promoting junior researchers.
• Gender and diversity competences complete your profile.

How to apply

Technische Universität Berlin is seeking to increase the proportion of women in research and teaching and therefore strongly encourages qualified female applicants to apply. TU Berlin values the diversity of its members and pursues the goals of equal opportunity. Severely disabled applicants with equal qualifications will be given preferential consideration. Applications from people of all nationalities and with a migration background are welcome. Technische Universität Berlin is certified as a family-friendly university. Applications from abroad are explicitly welcome.

Form for equal-opportunity design of the appointment process: Please complete this form and include it in your application materials:

Please send your application by 8 May 2026 , quoting the reference number VII-119/26 , with the usual documents (cover letter, CV, certificates, research concept, teaching portfolio, list of publications, the 3 most important publications, proof of completed or applied third-party funded projects, the equal-opportunity form in PDF format by email to the Dean of Faculty VII, Prof. Maik Lachmann, at .
If you wish to submit your application in paper form, please send it (including a digital version on a USB stick) to:
Technische Universität Berlin – The President – Dean of Faculty VII, Prof. Maik Lachmann, Office H30, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin. For cost reasons, application documents cannot be returned. Please submit copies only.

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Area of responsibility Academia and research, Research (academic), Teaching (university)

Start date (earliest)

Duration

Duration permanent

Full/Part-time

Full/Part-time full-time; part-time employment may be possible