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FRAMEWORK PROGRAM FOR ASSISTANT PROFESSORS AT TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY

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Department of Mathematics

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Assistant Professorship Optimization        

Research areas

  • Mixed-integer PDE-constrained optimization problems
  • Trust-region algorithms
  • Regularization techniques

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Assistant Professorship Mathematics Education Research for Primary Education

Research Areas

  • Digital media in the training and further education of mathematics teachers
  • Dealing with heterogeneity through the use of digital media
  • Empirical educational research

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Department of Physics

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Assistant Professorship Theoretical Solid-State Physics

Research Areas

  • Digital Quantum Simulation
  • Non-equilibrium Dynamics in Many-Body Systems
  • Quantum Computing

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Assistant Professorship Medical Physics with Focus on Computational Physics

Research areas

  • Biological and clinical effects of radiotherapy in cancer treatment
  • Radiation physics for a high-precision irradiation with protons
  • Novel treatment approaches in proton therapy
  • Machine learning for clinical imaging and radiotherapy

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Assistant Professorship Accelerator Physics

Research areas

  • Ultrafast processes of electron dynamics
  • Angle- and time-resolved measurements at free-electron lasers
  • Online analysis at the interface between artificial intelligence and experiment
  • X-ray spectroscopy of liquid phase systems

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Department of Computer Science

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Assistant Professorship Secure Software Engineering

Research areas

  • Static program analysis
  • Program Evolution
  • Science Quality in Computer Science

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Assistant Professorship Smart City Science

Research areas

  • Distributed Data Mining
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Multi-Agent Learning
  • Privacy Preserving Learning, Privacy-by-Design

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Department of Statistics

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Assistant Professorship Econometrics

Research areas

  • Nonstationary time series and panel data
  • Cross-sectional dependence in panel data
  • Cointegration
  • Empirical Macroeconometrics

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Assistant Professorship Statistics

Research areas

  • Resampling methods
  • Survival and event time analysis
  • Multivariate analysis
  • Asymptotic statistics

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Assistant Professorship Mathematical Statistics

Research areas

  • Design of experiments
  • Biostatistics
  • Model selection and model averaging

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Department of Mechanical Engineering

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Assistant Professorship Process Chain Oriented Laser Materials Processing

Research Areas

  • Laser beam based manufacturing technology in the fields of joining technology, additive manufacturing, subtractive processes, surface technology and special processes
  • Research and development activities regarding laser beam properties, process development, process metrology, quality assurance, metallographic characterization, data analysis and simulation
  • Applications in the fields of multi-material design, functional energy distribution, process-functional interfaces, production engineering for hydrogen technology and machining-oriented laser materials processing 

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Department of Spatial Planning

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Assistant Professorship Spatial Modelling

Research Areas

  • Spatial analysis of user-generated geographical information
  • Formalisation and methodological processing of place-related information
  • Empirical geographical studies

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Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering

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Assistant Professorship Solid Building Constructions

Research Areas

  • Establishment and constant expansion of a material archive for natural materials with low CO2 content, such as clay, wood and stone, as an infrastructure element between research and teaching
  • The potential of solid natural stone construction for contemporary, durable, and sustainable construction
  • Experimental design investigations at the interface of construction, material and architectural expression

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Department of Business and Economics

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Assistant Professorship Economics

Research Areas

  • Economic history
  • Long-term economic growth
  • Demographic economics

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Assistant Professorship Entrepreneurship

Research Areas

  • The role of context in women’s and men’s entrepreneurial activities
  • Women in economic activities such as entrepreneurship, informal economy, family businesses
  • Sustainable ventures

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Assistant Professorship Digital Entrepreneurship

Research Areas

  • Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Digitalization
  • Entrepreneurial behaviour and strategies
  • Digital innovations and business models

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Assistant Professorship Business and Information Systems Engineering

Research Areas

  • Business Intelligence & Analytics
  • Physiological Computing
  • Interactive & Explainable Machine Learning

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Department of Rehabilitation Sciences

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Assistant Professorship Inclusion and Work: Mental Health

Research Areas

  • Health in the context of employment
  • Vulnerable groups in employment
  • Changing working conditions/stresses
  • Social and health inequalities

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Assistant Professorship Digital Interventions and Inclusive Education

Research Areas

  • Development and research on pedagogical diagnostics instruments with a focus on digital learning progress monitoring tools and screenings
  • School performance and learning development of students with and without special needs (focus on inclusive primary education)
  • Teacher education with focus on diagnostics and digital literacy
  • Prevention and intervention in the context of inclusive schooling and teaching
  • Learning difficulties and learning under difficult conditions

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Department of Humanities and Theology

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Assistant Professorship Philosophy of Science with Focus on Artificial Intelligence

Research Areas

  • Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, Models and Simulations
  • Scientific realism
  • Philosophical foundations of quantum physics
  • General philosophy of science

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Assistant Professorship Practical Philosophy With a Focus On Challenges Of New Technologies

Research Areas

  • Ethics of AI
  • Ethics of Surveillance
  • Methodological issues in applied ethics and political philosophy
  • Moral Epistemology
  • Theory of Tolerance

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Assistant Professorship Religion and Politics

Research Areas

  • Party competition in Europe
  • Interest groups and lobbyism
  • Politics and religion
  • Welfare politics
  • Migration and integration politics

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Assistant Professorship Theoretical Philosophy

Research Areas

  • Epistemic reasons and reasons for action
  • Philosophy of perception
  • Explainable artificial intelligence

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Department of Arts and Sports Sciences

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Assistant Professorship Data Analytics in Sports Science

Research Areas

  • Device-based measurement of movement behaviors
  • Physical activity and health
  • Data-driven health
  • Wearables for population health

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DoKoLL / Central Facilities

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Assistant Professorship Digitally mediated teaching and learning

Research Areas

  • Digitality in foreign language teacher education and foreign language teaching
  • Language learning with digital media
  • Teacher education for heterogeneous learning settings in initial and in-service training

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