Assistant professor
Are you currently working as an assistant professor or interested in a position as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Natural Sciences? Here you can read about the characteristics of the position at our faculty, and how you can develop your career.
Scientific position: Assistant professor
Assistant professor positions are time-limited and reserved for researchers pursuing a university career. The main tasks of an assistant professor are research and research-based education. We support all assistant professors in qualifying for a tenured associate professor position. To help researchers in fixed-term positions with their career planning, a career development plan will be devised jointly with their leader.
- Assistant professors are typically more independent researchers than postdocs. Many of them build their own research unit.
- Assistant professors teach, supervise graduate students, and supervise PhD students in cooperation with a more senior colleague. Developing educational skills is a major career development goal for assistant professors.
- For assistant professors without tenure track, employment at the Faculty of Natural Sciences is limited to at most four years, whereafter they often continue their career at another research institution. Tenure track assistant professors can - after a rigorous external evaluation with positive outcome - continue their career as associate professor at the Faculty of Natural Sciences.
What does it take?
Our criteria for evaluation candidates describe the entry criteria that the Faculty of Technical Sciences uses when assessing candidates for different types of scientific positions:
These criteria can be used both for a dialogue between you and your leader and for a dialogue between a (potential) candidate for a position.
