The Ruhr area, one of Europe’s largest metropolitan regions, offers
attractive career opportunities for excellent scientists and scholars
from around the world. In 2021, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, TU Dortmund
University and the University of Duisburg-Essen established
the Research Alliance Ruhr to bundle their cutting-edge international
research on the most urgent challenges facing humankind.
There
will be four research centers and a college. This is just the latest
chapter in our long-standing collaboration as the University Alliance
Ruhr (UA Ruhr), a community of 14,000 researchers and 120,000
students in the heart of Germany.
As part of the Research Alliance Ruhr, the Research Center Trustworthy
Data Science and Security (RC Trust) is seeking to fill the following
position at the Department of Statistics of TU Dortmund University
as soon as possible:
Professorship (Open Rank: W3 or W2
tenure track to W3) for Causality
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
The person selected to hold the new professorship for causality will
specialize in research and teaching in the field of causal analysis and
inference for the next generation of statistical, machine learning and
artificial intelligence methods. The teaching load is reduced to
four weekly hours per semester. The successful candidate is expected
to contribute to English-taught courses in statistics or data science.
YOUR QUALIFICATION
We are seeking an outstanding scientist who holds an excellent PhD,
has experience in applying for third-party funding and has published
in relevant and highly ranked international venues. These should be
in at least one of the following areas:
- Causal Discovery and Structure Learning,
- Causal Machine Learning,
- Causal Modelling and Inference,
- Policy Evaluation and Treatment Effects,
- Probabilistic Graphs or Structural Equation Models.
Applicants should complement the research activities of the RC Trust
and the Department of Statistics and be willing to contribute to
interdisciplinary collaborative research projects and collaborations
within and outside the RC Trust and the Universities of the Research
Alliance Ruhr. Willingness to acquire third-party funds is expected.
Potential applications include but are not limited to life sciences,
social sciences, health, economics, logistics or engineering. For the
W3 professorship, continuous publication activities in relevant and
highly ranked international venues in the recent years as well as
the successful and independent acquisition of research projects or
competitive third-party funds including cooperative joint research
collaborations are mandatory.
Strong social and leadership skills and willingness to participate in
academic self-administration complete your profile.
In the case of the W2 professorship with W3 tenure track, the successful
candidate will initially be appointed as a temporary civil servant
for five years. At the end of this five-year period at the latest,
the tenure track will lead to continued employment as a tenured W3
university professor, provided that the necessary aptitude, competence
and academic performance have been demonstrated and
that the legal requirements pertaining to Section 38 of the North
Rhine-Westphalia Higher Education Act (HG NRW, Gesetz über die
Hochschulen des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen) are met.
In addition, the recruitment criteria of Sections 36 and 37 of the
North Rhine-Westphalia Higher Education Act apply.
ATTRACTIVE ENVIRONMENT
The professorship will be part of the newly established Research
Center Trustworthy Data Science and Security. The Center will enable
research that connects psychology, computer science, statistics
and cyber security in order to empower humans to understand,
control and verify artificial intelligence technology as well as modern
machine learning in (semi-)automated decision making.
The Research Center is linked to all three member universities of the
University Alliance Ruhr. We offer you an excellent scientific environment
and attractive opportunities for collaboration with renowned
international, national, and regional partners. The professorship
advertised here will be closely associated with the departments of
computer science and statistics as well as the Dortmund Data Science
Center (DoDSc) at TU Dortmund University.
These institutions enjoy an excellent international reputation in the
fields of basic and applied machine learning research. These core issues
have been consolidated in numerous interdisciplinary research
collaborations among more than 30 data science professors. All
involved departments have a strong track record of acquiring major
extramural support for collaborative research funds in the area of
data science and machine learning (SFB 823: Statistical modelling
of nonlinear dynamic processes, SFB 876: Providing Information by
Resource-Constrained Data Analysis, Competence Center Machine
Learning Rhine-Ruhr (ML2R)).
RESEARCH ALLIANCE RUHR
The
Research Alliance Ruhr is a joint
undertaking of the three major
universities in the Ruhr area and was
initiated by the Ruhr Conference. The
four research centers will focus on
„One Health,“ „Chemical Sciences and
Sustainability,“ „Trustworthy Data Science
and Security,“ and „Future Energy
Materials and Systems.” In addition,
the Research Alliance Ruhr is establishing
a „College for Social Sciences and
Humanities“.
The Research Alliance Ruhr will appoint
up to 50 research professors in the
next few years and also offer numerous
positions for research assistants. Join us
now to create innovations for the world
of tomorrow in Europe’s densest university
landscape, where you can find
a wide range of scientific and industrial
partners right on the doorstep.
YOUR APPLICATION
If you are interested in the position,
please send your application in a single
PDF file by August 9, 2022 to:
dekanat.statistik@tu-dortmund.de.
Details on the application process and
the preparation of application documents
can be found here:
https://berufung.tu-dortmund.de/en/application/
Please address any questions to Professor
Dr. Markus Pauly, Department of
Statistics:
Tel: +49 231 755 - 90371
www.statistik.tu-dortmund.de/
OUR WELCOME SERVICES
Our Welcome Services are happy to
assist especially international applicants
and their families with relocating
to the Ruhr area, an up-and-coming
metropolitan region. We can advise you
on housing in urban or more rural areas
and help you find childcare if needed.
Our Dual Career Service can help your
partner with their own professional
development in the region if requested.
DIVERSITY
The UA Ruhr promotes diversity and
equal opportunities. We strive to
significantly increase the percentage of
women in research and teaching and
therefore welcome applications from
female academics. We give preference
to severely disabled applicants if their
qualifications meet the requirements.
FURTHER INFORMATION
Further information about the Research
Center Trustworthy Data Science can be
found at:
www.rc-trust.ai
There you will also find the advertisements
for other open professorships of
the RC Trust.