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Research group leaders and junior professors

Welcome at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU)!

You have started as a group leader or junior professor at HHU - JUNO is happy to support you facing the challenges that come with this role. We are happy to support you with competence development, training and exchange with colleagues, because well-equipped and with a good network, you can organise your everyday academic life efficiently.

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Academic work at HHU

Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) sees itself as a research-oriented university with visible research activities on a national and international level. We would be pleased if you would locate your junior research group at the HHU. Below you will find an overview of the research areas and topics of HHU and its five faculties.

The habilitation is a university examination certifying the ability to conduct independent research and teaching. All information on the habilitation at one of the faculties of HHU is summarised below.

Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) would like to offer excellent young scientists predictable career prospects. In order to achieve this goal, young scientists who are initially employed as university professors on a temporary basis are given the opportunity to be taken on in a permanent position after successful evaluation (tenure procedure). The regulations ensure that junior professors with and without tenure track have a transparent, cross-faculty evaluation procedure.

At Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU), numerous young scientists* succeeded in highly competitive research funding competitions in order to fund their own junior research groups. This gives them early scientific independence and makes a significant contribution to sharpening HHU's research profile. The scientific profiles of externally funded HHU junior research group leaders are presented below.



Contact points and information for HHU researchers

Legal framework for academics

In order to do justice to the framework conditions in academic education, there is a special regulation for academics* - the Act on Temporary Employment Contracts in Science (Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz, WissZeitVG).
More information on Academic employment law

Further information on working conditions in science:

Representations for scientific staff:

According to the provisions of the NRW State Personnel Representation Act (LPVG), a separate staff representation body must be set up for academic staff at universities. The Staff Council for Academic Staff at Heinrich Heine University advises and represents academic staff from all faculties at the university.

Complaints Office pursuant to Art. 13 General Act on Equal Treatment 

The purpose of the German General Act on Equal Treatment (Allgemeines Gleichbehandlungsgesetz – AGG), which entered into force in 2006, is to prevent or stop discrimination on the grounds of: Race or ethnic origin,  Gender,  Religion or belief,  Disability, Age or Sexual orientation. Legislators have explicitly stipulated that employees have the right to lodge complaints.
Complaints Office at HHU

Information on Mentoring


MyNRMN is a powerful social networking platform for students and researchers across the biomedical, behavioral, social, and clinical sciences to connect with one another for anything from general questions about research and professional development as a scientist to scheduling more formal mentorship appointments one-on-one or as a group.

→ SelmaMeyerMentoring für weibliche Wissenschaftler*innen an der HHU

Concerning conficential matters you have several contacts within and outside of university who will support you.

HHU-internal contact persons

Ombudsperson of HHU

Counselling during graduate education at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
via Interdisciplinary Graduate and Research Academy Düsseldorf (iGRAD)

Counselling for early career researchers and supervisors at the Faculty Arts and Humanities
via the graduate academy philGRAD

Counselling for members of staff at HHU

 

Contacts outside of HHU

Ombudsman for Researchers

Network against Abuse of Power in Science

For iGRAD members: counselling for career planning, career development, and employment applications
Which criteria are important for me in the choice of my future career? Which career paths are compatible with these criteria? What do I need to know now, if I intend to follow an academic career? Which interdisciplinary skills/qualifications are required and by whom? How can I coordinate my strategy for advanced professional education with my career choice? Where can I find relevant job vacancies and how do I read the advertisements? Where can I find useful advice and tips about applying for a position? In addition to the offers that are an integral part of its workshop program, iGRAD offers information and counselling related to many aspects of career planning, career development, and job applications to its members who are doing their doctoral research. These offers range from an evaluation (based on the “career anchor” concept) of individual needs and priorities related to career decision, through advice and tips for job applications, to planning advanced training that harmonizes with career targets (focussed competence development).
More information on the iGRAD Website.

 

For philGRAD members: Consulting and Coaching
The Coordination Office of the Graduate Academy philGRAD is happy to advise its members and all interested parties in all matters concerning membership and the qualification, counselling and mentoring programme that is currently being set up. We are also available as contact partners in case of conflict. More information on the philGRAD Website.

 

Career councelling for postdocs of all research areas
By career we mean the development in a professional activity that is in line with personal interests, values and competencies. We would like to support you in ensuring that your employment at HHU has a long-term positive influence on this development and helps you to progress personally. We offer individual career advice and support you in the development and formulation of career goals. More information is available on the  JUNO Websites.

 

 

Qualification, Training and Networking

Contact

Dr. Uta Brunner
Junior Scientist and International Researcher Center (JUNO)
Universitätsstr. 1
Building: 16.11
Floor/Room: 00.48
40225 Düsseldorf
+49 211 81-13564

HHU und Düsseldorf

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