Juniorprofessur für Cybersicherheit und vertrauenswürdige Systeme / Junior professorship for Cy[...]

Job ID: 00526

Application deadline:

Salary group: W1 with tenure track to W2

Fixed term: 3 years

Scope: 100% full‑time

About the University of Lübeck

The University of Lübeck stands for excellent research and teaching. We are a modern foundation university with thematically focused degree programs. Under the motto “Focus on Life,” we offer courses in mathematics, computer science, natural sciences, technology, medicine, health sciences, and psychology.

Position: Junior Professorship for Cybersecurity and Trustworthy Systems (W1 with tenure track to W2)

Your area of responsibility

We are looking for an outstanding individual with a strong track record of excellent research in one of the areas of cybersecurity who can represent this expertise in research and teaching. The future job holder will have an outstanding PhD and excellent scientific achievements in one of the following areas:

• Theory and Practice of Cryptography
• Security and Privacy in Machine Learning
• Formal Methods in Security
• Secure Protocols and Networks
• Software and Systems Security
• Usable Security and Privacy

Applications with complementary or new thematic focus areas in IT Security that expand the existing expertise at the Institute for IT Security are expressly welcome. The establishment of a separate working group at the Institute for IT Security is expected.

The applicant should have high potential to strengthen the university’s research profile in IT Security through excellent publications, a strong potential for acquiring third‑party funding at national and international levels, and the ability to lead research projects. Scientific participation in the institute’s main research areas and the university’s profile areas, such as the trustworthiness of systems and intelligent systems, is expected. Collaboration in the AnoMed competence cluster on anonymization for medical applications is encouraged.

Teaching obligations include participation in the “IT Security” degree programs (German‑language Bachelor’s and English‑language Master’s) and other STEM degree programs. Willingness to contribute to the ongoing development of the IT Security curriculum is expected.

Junior professorships are initially filled for a fixed term of three years. Following a positive interim evaluation, the position is extended for a further three years. The position will be converted to a permanent W2 professorship if the tenure evaluation is positive and the requirements under civil service and higher education law are met.

Equal Opportunities

The University of Lübeck strongly encourages the application of qualified women. Women will be given priority if they have the same qualifications, skills, and professional achievements. The university welcomes applications from all individuals regardless of age, gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion or worldview, sexual orientation, and identity.

Contact for further questions: Frau Niehoff, +49 451 /

Application Procedure

Applications with the usual documents, including a résumé, copies of certificates, academic career information, a list of publications (separated into peer‑reviewed original works and review articles), three selected offprints, and a list of third‑party funding acquired must be submitted exclusively electronically via the University of Lübeck application portal until .

The application portal is referred to as the online application form.