Assistant Professor of Data Engineering and Advanced Processing for Medical Imaging Modalities

The Tübingen Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital are part of the University of Excellence Tübingen. They provide medical services at the highest level and cover the entire spectrum of modern medicine, research, teaching and clinical care.

The Faculty of Medicine at the University of Tübingen invites applications for a position at the University Hospital, Department for Radiology as a

Assistant Professor of Data Engineering and Advanced Processing for Medical Imaging Modalities

available immediately.

This Tenure-Track position is subject to an interim evaluation after four years and a final evaluation after six years. If the final evaluation is positive, this professorship will be upgraded to a full (W3) professorship with no re-advertising of the position. Detailed information on this employment category and the criteria underlying the interim evaluation and promotion to the tenured position may be found in our guidelines for tenure review under the following link: https://berufungsportal.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de.There you can also find information on this employment category.

Those who already have completed a habilitation will be excluded.

The successful candidate shall focus on developing and establishing new methods for image acquisition or image reconstruction of various medical imaging modalities. In addition, the development and clinical translation of complex image post-processing and image analysis shall be a major field of work. This includes the application of machine learning methods as well as imaging-related reconstruction algorithms, artifact correction methods and image-based quality assurance from medically applicable imaging modalities with a focus on magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography and hybrid imaging, in close exchange with clinicians. The central role of the professorship will be the translation of these methods into clinical applications and the motivation of clinical trials, especially in the area of oncological and cardiovascular imaging. Participation in the usage of existing imaging data from clinical and epidemiological cohort studies is also expected.

In the field of teaching, comprehensive experience evaluated as outstanding and involvement are expected, as well as active design of lectures and other teaching formats, particularly in view of innovative curricula in the degree programs taught at the Tübingen Faculty of Medicine. The position has a teaching load of four hours per week prior to interim evaluation and six hours thereafter.

Applicants for a Tenure-Track professorship with a PhD from Tübingen must have changed universities after completing their doctorates or have worked in academia and/or research for at least two years somewhere other than the University of Tübingen.

Required qualifications include an outstanding doctorate in a pertinent field, internationally renowned

publications and first experience with the acquisition of third-party funding as well as teaching experience.

The University of Tübingen is particularly interested in increasing the number of women in research and teaching and therefore strongly encourages women to apply. In line with its internationalization agenda, the university welcomes applications from researchers outside Germany.

Applications from equally qualified candidates with disabilities will be given preference.

The German-language advertisement is the sole legally binding advertisement of this position.

Please submit your entire application using the web-based application platform https://berufungsportal.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de. The deadline for applications is 23 September 2021.

Enquiries may be directed to the Dean.

Dean of the Faculty of Medicine

University of Tübingen

Professor Dr. rer. nat. Bernd Pichler

Geissweg 5/1

72076 Tübingen, GERMANY