W3-Professorship for the subject area “Macroeconomics”

Technische Universität Berlin is an Excellence University within the Berlin University Alliance, with around 35,000 students, approximately 350 professors, and around 7,000 employees. We value the diversity of our members, pursue the goals of equal opportunity, and are certified as a family-friendly university. The field to be filled represents teaching and research in the fundamentals, methods, and applications of macroeconomics, with a focus on the macroeconomics of technological progress and sustainable development in economic, ecological, and social terms, e.g. in digitalization and the labor market, technological progress and climate change, or comparable areas.

• You will conduct teaching amounting to 9 semester hours (SWS), especially in the bachelor's programs in Industrial Engineering and Management; Economics and Sustainability; and Sustainable Management, as well as in the master's programs in Industrial Engineering and Management; Economics and Sustainability; and Innovation Management, Entrepreneurship, and Sustainability. Courses will be held in German and in English.
• Your research fields in the subject area include
  o Macroeconomics of technological progress and
  o Macroeconomics of sustainable development in economic, ecological, and social terms.
• Methodologically, the work group of macroeconomics uses modern and recognized quantitative methods of economics, employing mathematical-theoretical methods (DSGE and CGE models, game theory, and behavioral economics) and empirical-statistical methods (statistics, econometrics, and experiments).
• You will head a renowned group and work closely with other departments in the field of economics and the Berlin School of Economics.
• You will offer and supervise research assignments for bachelor and master theses and doctoral dissertations.
• You will acquire and manage third-party funded projects and publish your research findings in leading international peer-reviewed economics journals.
• You will promote
  o women and societal diversity, committing to gender- and diversity-sensitive practices,
  o knowledge and technology transfer.
• You will engage in committee and commission work.

• The hiring requirements according to § 100 ff. BerlHG must be fulfilled. These include
  o a completed, relevant university degree with a specialization in disciplines relevant to macroeconomics,
  o special aptitude for academic work, usually demonstrated by the quality of a doctoral degree,
  o additional academic achievements, e.g. a positively evaluated junior professorship, habilitation, or equivalent qualifications,
  o teaching aptitude, demonstrated through your teaching portfolio (see https://www.tu.berlin/go209650/).
• In-depth academic knowledge in the field of macroeconomics, preferably in the two aforementioned research fields, as demonstrated by publications (peer-reviewed) in leading international journals of economics, is essential.
• Several years of subject-specific teaching experience in macroeconomics is required.
• Experience in acquiring third-party funding, preferably DFG (German Research Foundation) funding, is welcome.
• As an internationally oriented university, we expect the ability to teach in both German and English, or the willingness to acquire the necessary language skills within a reasonable timeframe.
• Experience with interdisciplinary collaboration, science communication, and knowledge transfer is desirable, as is
• experience in promoting junior researchers.
• Gender and diversity competences complete your profile.

Technische Universität Berlin is seeking to increase the proportion of women in research and teaching and therefore strongly encourages qualified female applicants to apply. TU Berlin values the diversity of its members and pursues the goals of equal opportunity. Severely disabled applicants with equal qualifications will be given preferential consideration. Applications from people of all nationalities and with a migration background are welcome. Technische Universität Berlin is certified as a family-friendly university. Applications from abroad are explicitly welcome.

Form for equal-opportunity design of the appointment process: Please complete this form and include it in your application materials: https://www.tu.berlin/go209647/

Please send your application by 20 April 2026, quoting the reference number VII-119/26, with the usual documents (cover letter, CV, certificates, research concept, teaching portfolio, list of publications, the 3 most important publications, proof of completed or applied third-party funded projects, the equal-opportunity form [https://www.tu.berlin/go209647/]) in PDF format by email to the Dean of Faculty VII, Prof. Maik Lachmann, at jobs@wm.tu-berlin.de.
If you wish to submit your application in paper form, please send it (including a digital version on a USB stick) to:
Technische Universität Berlin – The President – Dean of Faculty VII, Prof. Maik Lachmann, Office H30, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin. For cost reasons, application documents cannot be returned. Please submit copies only.

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