Professor of Experimental Physics

Job Summary

The academic area of specialization of the professorship should fit with the existing activities of the Physics Department in the areas of soft matter and/or biological and biologically inspired materials. Ideally, the research fields shall be predominantly from the area of experimental physics and shall include several of the following fields:

• Physical properties and dynamics of polymeric or molecular systems
• Functional materials for applications in sensing, bioelectronics or soft robotics
• Functional adaption and optimisation of biomolecular or biomimetic machines
• Design and engineering of functional biopolymers

The successful candidate for the professorship position is expected to develop a research strategy aimed at cross-departmental collaboration with groups at the Faculty of Engineering & Natural Sciences, Medicine, the Linz Institute of Technology (LIT), as well as together with research groups in Austria and abroad.

Applicants for the position must have a venia docendi (habilitation-degree) or a comparable qualification. An adequate participation in research foci and curricula of the JKU as well as in the university self-governance is expected.

The position as Professor for “Experimental Physics” provides a provision (on a voluntary basis) to agree on a salary over the minimum salary set by the collective agreement. After a positive evaluation every six years – maximally 4 times – there will be an advance to the next pay grade in accordance to the salary bracket in collective agreement for job category A1.