W2 Professorship - Digital Production Technologies in Aschaffenburg

Organisation/Company TH Aschaffenburg Research Field Engineering Industrial engineering Researcher Profile Established Researcher (R3) Leading Researcher (R4) Positions Other Positions Application Deadline 8 Oct 2026 - 23:59 (Europe/Berlin) Country Germany Type of Contract Permanent Job Status Full-time Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme Reference Number iwin-w-8 Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

Offer Description

Your area of responsibility:

• You represent the full scope of Digital Production Technologies teaching and research, with a particular focus on modern manufacturing and production systems, their planning, control, and automation, as well as simulation- and data-driven methods in digital production.
• You teach students practical methods and share your professional experience and expertise with them. To this end, you will teach courses in German and, where applicable, English across various degree programs and specializations within the faculty. Additionally, you actively contribute to the development of core modules in the fields of production engineering and industrial engineering.
• You will supervise project, bachelor’s and master’s theses, as well as perspectival PhD theses.
• You are involved in applied research and further develop the Production Technologies Laboratory.
• You establish and maintain research and technology transfer partnerships with partners in industry and academia, and actively raise third-party funding.
• You are engaged in the internationalization of the faculty, particularly through the development and maintenance of international partnerships and English-language courses, as well as in academic self-administration.

What you bring with you:

• You are a dedicated and technically skilled professional who approaches the field of digital production technologies with enthusiasm and a spirit of innovation.
• You have successfully completed a university degree in engineering and demonstrate a particular aptitude for academic work (as evidenced by the quality of your PhD or an equivalent academic achievement).
• You have extensive professional experience in relevant areas of digital production systems or technology.
• You enjoy inspiring students about production engineering, digitalization, and the transformation of industrial value creation. Ideally, you are familiar with modern teaching practices and methods.
• Your profile is characterized by a collaborative and inclusive work style, as well as a willingness to engage in interdisciplinary collaboration, particularly in fields such as robotics, AI, laser technology, materials science, or logistics.
• A structured onboarding program and possibilities of further education and individual training
• Flexible working time arrangements
• We actively pursue professional equality between women and men and aim to increase our current proportion of female professors of 32%
• We support the balancing of family and career: we are very proud of our certificate (audit family-friendly university). You can find our information on this topic at: -ab.de/fgh

Besides your academic experience you need 5 years of professional experience, from which at least 3 years have been served outside of higher education, that is in the industry or other professional enterprises.

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