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Habilitation process.
The D-MTEC habilitation procedure is governed by the Download Habilitation Ordinance of ETH Zurich vertical_align_bottom .
A habilitation thesis must include papers that have been published or submitted for publication in the subject area, an introduction, a summary, and a motivation section. At least six papers are required for a cumulative habilitation thesis, of which at least two and usually three or more must already have been published in leading international journals. Alternatively, an unpublished habilitation treatise (monograph) may also be accepted.
Habilitation Procedure
The candidate submits an application for conferral of the Habilitation & Venia Legendi to the Rector via the Academic Services Information & Planning Office. The following documents are required:
- Letter of application: department and teaching field must be mentioned
- Enclosure 1: CV and list of publications
- Enclosure 2: copy of passport
- Enclosure 3: copy of PhD certificate
- Enclosure 4: teaching evaluations – at least 2 years at ETH
- Enclosure 5: title page of habilitation thesis and the confirmation that the thesis has been uploaded to the ETH Research Collection
Please note, the thesis will not be published during the application process; at the completion of the process the library will contact the candidate.
The Rector confirms the initiation of the habilitation process to the candidate and the department. The Department Coordinator places the habilitation request on the agenda of the next professor’s conference (PK).
- Habilitation thesis as a separate PDF file
- A short abstract of the habilitation thesis
- A proposal suggesting six reviewers (two internal and four external reviewer; no co-authors)
- A list of teaching evaluations, if not previously provided (the candidate must have at least two years of teaching experience at ETH)
- Three proposed topics for a rehearsal lecture (Probevortrag)
PK decides on internal and external reviewers based on the candidate’s proposal.
PK can request that the candidate delivers a rehearsal lecture (Probevortrag). If so, PK will choose one of the proposed topics. If a rehearsal lecture needs to take place, it will be scheduled for one of the next PKs.
Based on the reviewers’ assessments and the rehearsal lecture, PK decides on the further course of the habilitation procedure:
- Negative assessment: the candidate should withdraw the habilitation application
- Positive assessment: the Department Head requests the conferral of the habilitation & Venia Legendi by the Rector in the appropriate teaching field
Following a positive decision by the Rector, a decree will be issued for the habilitation and Venia Legendi; a certificate will be issued along with the conferral of the Venia Legendi (eight semesters). With the awarding of the Venia Legendi, the title of “Privatdozentin/Privatdozent” is conferred. To be able to apply for renewal of the Venia Legendi the candidate must fulfil his or her teaching duties.
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Habilitation and equivalent qualification
The German "Habilitation" serves as evidence of an individual's capability of researching independently and of teaching in a certain subject area. Traditionally in Germany, a habilitation serves as a formal qualification needed to become a university professor. Along with the habilitation, one is awarded teaching qualification (Lehrbefähigung) and (upon request) a teaching license (Lehrbefugnis). For a professorship at a university of applied science, there is no need for habilitation.
As an alternative to habilitation, there are other options to qualify for the position of university professor (see here ). If you aspire to become a university professor, you should find out how important the habilitation is within your discipline. In some disciplines, most newly appointed university professors did not do a habilitation, whereas in other disciplines it is almost impossible to get a professorship without habilitation. Only with the discipline-specific knowledge you can decide whether or not you would like to complete a habilitation.
If you would like to work on a habilitation, you should have a professor who supports your plan. This relationship is typically not as close as it was during the doctoral phase.
For the habilitation, you must complete both written (habilitation thesis; cumulative work, if allowed) and oral tasks (an academic talk with colloquium, public talk). Specific regulations about the habilitation can be found in the faculty-specific regulations of the university's Regulations for habilitation External link (in German).
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Habilitation
The following provides information on completing a Habilitation (postdoctoral qualification) and obtaining a venia legendi (authority to teach) in the Department of Physics.
The Habilitation is governed by the regulations of the Department of Physics Habilitationsordnung des Fachbereichs Physik der Universität Hamburg vom 29. Januar 2003 (PDF).
If you have any questions about the Habilitation, contact the department advisor, Ms. Irmgard Flick ( email ( irmgard.flick "AT" physik.uni-hamburg.de ) ).
Habilitation requirements
Pursuant to the Hamburg higher education act (Hamburgisches Hochschulgesetz, HmbHG), a Habilitation (postdoctoral qualification) or equivalent academic achievement demonstrates that its holder meets the formal requirements for a professorship. Successful completion of a Habilitation in one of the subjects of the Department of Physics proves that the holder of the qualification can:
- carry out original research that advances their field significantly, including in an international academic context.
- successfully oversee entire research projects from the initial planning stage to the final publication of the results.
- competently assess the quality of academic work within their own field during the examination process.
The Habilitation procedure is based on the Habilitation thesis submitted by the candidate. Instead of a dedicated Habilitation thesis, candidates may submit one or more scholarly publications of extraordinary significance or, in exceptional cases, an outstanding dissertation. In cases where the Habilitation work consists of a series of individual publications, candidates are additionally required to submit an extensive appraisal summarizing the cumulative work.
Application for Admission to a Habilitation
You must submit an informal admission application for the Habilitation procedure. Address your application to the head of the Department of Physics and submit it to the department advisor along with the following supporting documents (Section 4 subsection 2 of the Habilitation regulations):
- curriculum vitae
- list of publications
- dissertation
- doctoral degree certificate (submit the original certificate; a copy will be made in the Department)
- Habilitation thesis (ten copies, no spiral binding)
- CD-ROM containing the Habilitation thesis as a PDF file
- an affidavit verifying that all work submitted is your own
- declaration stating whether you have already applied for the Habilitation elsewhere
Formal Habilitation thesis requirements
- formal cover page (PDF)
- affidavit (PDF)
Habilitation examinations board
Upon receiving the application along with the required documents, the standing Habilitation examinations board of the Department of Physics (PDF) (ex officio: physics board) decides whether to initiate the Habilitation procedure and appoints an individual Habilitation committee.
Criteria for the appointment of members of a Habilitation committee
The applicant may suggest members for the Habilitation committee; their proposals are to be accepted wherever possible and reasonable.
Membership of the Habilitation committee is subject to the following criteria:
- the Habilitation committee must consist of no fewer than five and no more than seven professors or other members of Universität Hamburg who have completed a Habilitation. at least four of those committee members must belong to the Department of Physics.
- the Habilitation committee should include members of no fewer than three department institutes.
- every Habilitation committee must include at least one experimental physicist and one theoretical physicist.
- no fewer than two of the members of the Habilitation committee must be thoroughly familiar with the field of research in which the submitted work was completed.
The Habilitation committee may not include:
- any professor assigned to the research associate applying for the Habilitation procedure.
- the head of a research group to which the applicant belongs.
- any scholars with whom the applicant worked directly during their Habilitation period.
Members of the Habilitation committee cannot be appointed as reviewers.
Habilitation thesis review
The Habilitation committee assesses the Habilitation thesis and appoints at least two independent reviewers. A reviewer must be either a professor or a researcher who has completed a Habilitation. No more than one reviewer may belong to the Department of Physics of Universität Hamburg.
Presentation
The head of department sets a date for the presentation in agreement with the chair of the Habilitation committee and the applicant as per Section 2 subsection 1. S/he invites the members of the Habilitation committee, the reviewers as per Section 7, the members of the extended physics board, and the professors responsible for the subject area. All other members of the department are to be informed of the time and place of the presentation by a notice displayed in their institutes.
Presentations normally take 45 minutes and are followed by a discussion.
Habilitation diploma
You will be notified of the decision in writing and receive your Habilitation diploma. The diploma is signed by the dean of the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences as well as the chair of the Habilitation committee; it also bears the Universität Hamburg seal.
Publication
Upon completion of the procedure, one set of the submitted academic works will be placed in the departmental library of the Department of Physics. Another set will be given to the State and University Library Hamburg.
Good scientific practice
Follow the guidelines for good scientific practice published by the conference of physics departments (Konferenz der Fachbereiche Physik, KFP) and outlined in the Universität Hamburg bylaws and the guidelines of the German Research Foundation (DFG).
- KFP: Good scientific practice for scientific qualification reports and theses in physics (PDF)
- KFP: Gute wissenschaftliche Praxis bei wissenschaftlichen Qualifikationsarbeiten in der Physik, german (PDF)
- DFG: Safeguarding Good Scientific Practice / Sicherung guter wissenschaftlicher Praxis (PDF)
- UHH: Bylaws for Safeguarding Good Scientific Practice and Avoiding Scientific Misconduct at Universität Hamburg (PDF)
- UHH: Satzung zur Sicherung guter wissenschaftlicher Praxis und zur Vermeidung wissenschaftlichen Fehlverhaltens an der Universität Hamburg (PDF)
Umhabilitation (transfer to another institution)
An individual who has been appointed a Privatdozent (senior lecturer with no permanent teaching contract) as a result of completing a Habilitation or an equivalent qualification at another university will usually be given a position as a Privatdozent should they transfer to Universität Hamburg; they will obtain their venia legendi (authority to teach) on the basis of an abbreviated Umhabilitation procedure. They will retain their status as a doctor with a completed Habilitation even after leaving their current university. They merely need to regain their authority to teach at the new university.
Teaching authorization—venia legendi
The venia legendi (authorization to teach) is governed by:
- the Universität Hamburg bylaws on granting teaching authorization, Satzung der Universität Hamburg über die Verleihung der Lehrbefugnis als Privatdozentin oder Privatdozent gemäß § 17 Absatz 2 des Hamburgischen Hochschulgesetzes (Privatdozentursatzung) vom 17.11.2011 (PDF)
For more information, see:
- Procedural regulations of the Department of Physics on awarding the venia legendi, Verfahrensregelung des Fachbereichs Physik für die Verleihung der Lehrbefugnis als Privatdozent/in gemäß § 17 Absatz 2 HmbHG (PDF)
Beginning a university teaching career
German-language study on entering the university teaching career: Der Zugang zur Hochschullehrerlaufbahn im Fach Physik an deutschen Universitäten: Habilitation, Juniorprofessur, Nachwuchsgruppenleitung (PDF). Conducted by the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (December 2010)
Habilitations at the Department of Physics
Dr. roman kogler.
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The Coming of Age of Jet Substructure at the LHC – Algorithms, Measurements and Searches for New Physical Phenomen
Field of research: Experimental physics Date of habilitation: 15.11.2021
Dr. Jens Bernhard Reinhold Wiebe
Artificial atomic-spin arrays on solid surfaces.
Field of research: Experimental physics Date of habilitation: 24.04.2020
Dr. Rutger Herman Boels
More loops and legs for perturbative quantum field theory.
Field of research: Theoretical physics Date of habilitation: 18.01.2019
Dr. Arya Fallahi
Terahertz acceleration technology towards compact light sources.
Field of research: Experimental Physics Date of habilitation: 29.04.2019
Dr. Kirsten Tina von Bergmann
Non-collinear magnetism in ultrathin films / nichtkollinearer magnetismus in ultradünnen filmen.
Field of research: Experimental Physics Date of habilitation: 29.10.2019
Dr. Stefan Mendach
Optical rolled-up metamaterials, spin-wave optics, and tubular micro-resonators.
Field of research: Experimental Physics Date of habilitation: 06.04.2018
Dr. Christian Kränkel
Halbleiterlaser-gepumpte seltenerddotierte festkörperlaser / semiconductor-laser-pumped rare-earth-doped solid-state lasers.
Field of research: Experimental Physics Date of habilitation: 03.02.2017
Dr. Dirk-Sören Lühmann
Quantum simulation with ultracold atoms – solid-state models and beyond.
Field of research: Theoretical physics Date of habilitation: 24.04.2017
Dr. Antonio Negretti
Ultra-cold atoms meet trapped ions: a new interface for quantum information mprocessing and simulation.
Field of research: Theoretical physics Date of habilitation: 11.05.2017
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With the substantial rise in the amount of mis- and disinformation online, fact checking has become an important task to automate. This article is a summary of a habilitation (doctor scientiarum) thesis submitted to the University of Copenhagen, which was sucessfully defended in December 2021 (Augenstein in Towards Explainable Fact Checking. Dr. Scient. thesis, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Science, 2021). The dissertation addresses several fundamental research gaps within automatic fact checking. The contributions are organised along three verticles: (1) the fact-checking subtask they address; (2) methods which only require small amounts of manually labelled data; (3) methods for explainable fact checking, addressing the problem of opaqueness in the decision-making of black-box fact checking models.
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Atanasova P, Simonsen JG, Lioma C, Augenstein I (2020) A diagnostic study of explainability techniques for text classification. In: Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.emnlp-main.263 . Accessed 1 May 2022
Atanasova P, Simonsen JG, Lioma C, Augenstein I (2020) Generating fact checking explanations. In: Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.acl-main.656 . Accessed 1 May 2022
Atanasova P, Wright D, Augenstein I (2020) Generating label cohesive and well-formed adversarial claims. In: Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.emnlp-main.256 . Accessed 1 May 2022
Augenstein I (2021) Towards Explainable Fact Checking. Dr. Scient. thesis, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Science. https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.10274 . Accessed 1 May 2022
Augenstein I, Lioma C, Wang D, Chaves Lima L, Hansen C, Hansen C, Simonsen JG (2019) MultiFC: a real-world multi-domain dataset for evidence-based fact checking of claims. In: Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP). Hong Kong, China. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D19-1475 . Accessed 1 May 2022
Augenstein I, Rocktäschel T, Vlachos A, Bontcheva K (2016) Stance detection with bidirectional conditional encoding. In: Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). Austin, Texas. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D16-1084 . Accessed 1 May 2022
Augenstein I, Ruder S, Søgaard A (2018) Multi-task learning of pairwise sequence classification tasks over disparate label spaces. In: Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT), Volume 1 (Long Papers). New Orleans, Louisiana. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N18-1172 . Accessed 1 May 2022
Bjerva J, Kouw W, Augenstein I (2020) Back to the future – temporal adaptation of text representations. In: Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/6240 . Accessed 1 May 2022
Wright D, Augenstein I (2020) Claim check-worthiness detection as positive unlabelled learning. Findings of the association for computational linguistics: EMNLP. Association for Computational Linguistics, Stroudsburg, pp 476–488. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.findings-emnlp.43
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How to apply for Habilitation positions in Germany - Physics/Chemistry
I'm a postdoctoral researcher in physics in the USA right now (my Ph.D. is in physical chemistry). I want to move to Germany and eventually become a research professor. I am aware that one route I could take is by applying for Junior Professor positions, but my understanding is that a Habilitation is a bit more collaborative with your advisor. As I am planning to move to an entirely new system, I think it would be good for me to have a few years working closely with someone who already knows the system so I will be in a better place to help my students navigate it. Anyway, I can find Jr. Prof. positions on the job boards, but I have no idea how to find Habilitation positions. Can any of you help me with this?
Many thanks!
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The following is about habilitation and junior professorships in general, not particularly about physical chemistry.
A few things about junior professorships first:
- Depending on the field, a habilitation is no longer a strict necessity. Having done a successful junior professorship is formally sufficient for a professor position as well. You of course don't know in advance if the hiring committee for the position you will be interested in at some point isn't preferring candidates with a habilitation, though.
- There are nowadays also tenure-track junior professorships. They ensure that if you do good work, you get a permanent professorship afterwards, without the need to have a habilitation. Once you showed that you can do a good job on a permanent professorship, the habilitation should then cease to be important if you apply elsewhere later.
But more importantly:
- There are no designated "habilitation positions" in Germany. Rather, there are positions as "wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter" (scientific employee) that you can hold while working towards your habilitation. The possibility to write a habilitation thesis while holding the position may be mentioned in the job advertisement, but is also often not. If you see a position that may be suitable offered somewhere, you will have to ask (the respective professor) if he/she thinks if you should apply as someone interested in working towards a habilitation.
- The important part for writing a habilitation thesis is that you have a position with a perspective to stay for a longer period of time, as necessary for this purpose. A position in a newly started EU starting/consolidator/advanced grant would be suitable, for instance. A "Landesstelle" (not directly attached to a third-party funded project) is suitable, too - but you will have to convince the professor having such a position that giving it to you is a wise investment for him/her.
- Sometimes you see a position for an "Akademischer Rat", which is a permanent somewhat glorified postdoc position and should be suitable for writing a habilitation thesis. These are very rare, though.
Note that positions suitable for habilitation are not always publicly announced, and it's not uncommon to have your current professor/advisor phone up a few colleagues in the area you want to move to in order to check if there are any suitable not yet announced free positions upcoming in their research groups.
According to the GDCh (as the relevant professional society), there were about 3x as many people doing a habilitation than junior professors (end of 2019). The ratio is even more in favor of habilitands in physical chemistry.
So you definitively want to discuss the possibility of doing a habilitation.
According to wikipedia 1/3 of the junior professors is working towards their habilitation in parallel.
In addition to the job descriptions mentioned by @DCTlib, (Nachwuchs)gruppenleiter is something to look at as well.
You may find that some professors tell you that they'd want to collaborate for a while with you (there) before proposing you to start a habilitation.
Habilitations are (in their beginning) possibly somewhat informal. Like for a PhD, the German system allows one to show up with basically a finished thesis. You still formally need to find a mentoring professor, though, and of course you need to get the required teaching experience. But the formal procedure really starts only when you hand in the thesis. As always, details are specified in the local Habilitationsordnung.
Thus a professor may suggest to their PI that the work already done there may be used also towards habilitation, in which case the Habilitand will seem to start halfways through the habilitation.
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Habilitation. Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in many European countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excellence in research, teaching and further education, usually including a dissertation. The degree, sometimes abbreviated Dr. habil.
A habilitation thesis must include papers that have been published or submitted for publication in the subject area, an introduction, a summary, and a motivation section. At least six papers are required for a cumulative habilitation thesis, of which at least two and usually three or more must already have been published in leading ...
For the habilitation, you must complete both written (habilitation thesis; cumulative work, if allowed) and oral tasks (an academic talk with colloquium, public talk). Specific regulations about the habilitation can be found in the faculty-specific regulations of the university's Regulations for habilitation External link (in German).
The Habilitation procedure is based on the Habilitation thesis submitted by the candidate. Instead of a dedicated Habilitation thesis, candidates may submit one or more scholarly publications of extraordinary significance or, in exceptional cases, an outstanding dissertation. In cases where the Habilitation work consists of a series of ...
The content of the habilitation thesis is defined on three sections: A. Abstract; B. Scientific, professional and academic achievements; C. Proposal for the future academic, scientific and professional career development. The research activity and achievements presented are developed in two main thematic directions: ...
Abstract and Figures. This habilitation thesis gives an overview of some recent results obtained by the author together with various collaborators in the area of parameterized approximation ...
Habilitations theses written at the University of Stuttgart are to be published as well (see Habilitation Regulations (HabilO) Sec. 12, par.1, cl. 1). As for dissertations, you also have the choice between several publication types here. One possibility is the electronic publication of your habilitation thesis on OPUS.
This habilitation thesis comprises a collection of articles on languages with rich morphology, such as the Uralic languages, that challenge our current understanding about the relationships ...
This Habilitation thesis focuses on the relation between cities and urban housing estates, understood as ensembles of two or more, medium- to high-density, primarily residential buildings, conceived at the same time and with a level of common administration. The earliest housing estates were conceived islands of hygiene and propriety, kept ...
Habilitation definition, the act or process of becoming fit or of making fit for a particular purpose:For at-risk youth, combining school and work makes more sense, expanding their education and habilitation to include hands-on training. See more.
With the substantial rise in the amount of mis- and disinformation online, fact checking has become an important task to automate. This article is a summary of a habilitation (doctor scientiarum) thesis submitted to the University of Copenhagen, which was sucessfully defended in December 2021 (Augenstein in Towards Explainable Fact Checking. Dr. Scient. thesis, University of Copenhagen ...
The important part for writing a habilitation thesis is that you have a position with a perspective to stay for a longer period of time, as necessary for this purpose. A position in a newly started EU starting/consolidator/advanced grant would be suitable, for instance. A "Landesstelle" (not directly attached to a third-party funded project) is ...
Doctoral Thesis, Zurich, ETH Zurich, 2023. Materials based on inorganic, small (nano- and micro) particles hold great promise for technological advances in various fields, like in device miniaturisation, sensing applications or in bioimaging. Such particles can be synthesised using bottom- up chem ...
The habilitation thesis as a PDF document. 6 (3) printed copies of your thesis. Abstract and summary for uploading to the repository. The declaration of publication (Veröffentlichungserklärung) Please complete the declaration of consent on the computer and then bring it to us, print it out and sign it, together with the printed copies.
habilitation [hah-bil″ĭ-ta´shun] the assisting of a child with achieving developmental skills when impairments have caused delaying or blocking of initial acquisition of the skills. Habilitation can include cognitive, social, fine motor, gross motor, or other skills that contribute to mobility, communication, and performance of activities of daily ...
Habilitation thesis synonyms, Habilitation thesis pronunciation, Habilitation thesis translation, English dictionary definition of Habilitation thesis. v. ha·bil·i·tat·ed , ha·bil·i·tat·ing , ha·bil·i·tates v. tr. 1. To clothe. 2. To fit out or equip for operation. 3. Obsolete To impart an ability or...