Job Alert – W3 Chair of Mobile Machinery and Commercial Vehicles
- The Technical University of Braunschweig is one of the leading technical universities in Germany and offers you an inspiring working environment with a wide range of research and teaching opportunities in excellently equipped institutions
The approx. 3,800 employees in research and teaching – including more than 400 international scientists – as well as in administration, technology and crafts together ensure that the university fulfills its research and educational mission for its approx. 16,000 students and approx. 100 trainees successfully fulfilled.
Our research focuses on mobility, metrology, engineering for health and the city of the future. Strong engineering and natural sciences form our core disciplines. These are closely networked with the economic and social sciences, educational and humanities.
Our university is located in the middle of one of the most research-intensive regions in Europe. With the more than 20 internationally renowned research institutions in our neighborhood, we work together just as successfully as with our national and international partner universities.
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
We offer a
W3 Chair of Mobile Machinery and Commercial Vehicles
The post is scheduled for 01.10.2025.
Your tasks
The Institute for Mobile Machines and Commercial Vehicles is a core institute with basic and application-oriented contributions in the field of vehicle technology and mobile machines in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and in the Lower Saxony Research Center for Vehicle Technology (NFF). The professorship is assigned to the research focus Mobility of the TU Braunschweig and also works interdisciplinary with the other research focuses. The institute is excellently networked with federal research institutions through joint projects and courses.
The focus of future research should be in the following areas:
- Digital networking in mobile systems
- Intelligent automation of process and driving functions
- Sustainable systems of mobile machines and commercial vehicles
- Efficient process technology in mobile machines
- Innovative drive systems and chassis
The job holder is expected to carry out the executive management of a larger institute and research on the aforementioned priorities. The research topics are to be developed theoretically and demonstrated by means of experiments and on test vehicles, for which an extensively equipped workshop is available.
The teaching covers basic-oriented courses for all bachelor’s and master’s degree programs of the faculty as well as further offers for students of the degree programs in automotive.
