Ada Lovelace Guest Professorship

As part of the German government's artificial intelligence (AI) strategy, the successful Saxon competence center ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig (Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence) is being expanded into a leading German AI competence center for Big Data and artificial intelligence (AI). It is located at the TUD Dresden University of Technology and the University of Leipzig. At each location we bring together more than 150 staff members. In ScaDS.AI, various research topics are being worked on within the framework of a graduate school on the fundamentals and applications of data science and artificial intelligence. In addition, service-oriented solutions are developed and there is close cooperation with a large number of partner organizations from science and industry. The center offers an excellent working environment with access to state-of-the-art technologies and an outstanding high-performance computing infrastructure. For TUD diversity is an essential feature and a quality criterion of an excellent university. Accordingly, we welcome all applicants who would like to commit themselves, their achievements and productivity to the success of the whole institution.

At the Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Sciences (CIDS), the Department ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig offers a

Ada Lovelace Guest Professorship

Dedicated to the most advanced technologies for the benefit of society in tackling present and future challenges, ScaDS.AI is continuously committed to maximum equity and diversity of perspectives in its processes of human resources development and team building. Understand our Ada Lovelace Guest Professorship to be located in this context.

As outstanding and highly visible scholars working in an AI-related field, the Ada Lovelace Guest Professor will be actively involved in various research and teaching activities. The guest professor will hold a public lecture about the individual field of research, thus initiating dialogue with students and junior academics in AI also by way of a role model.

DURATION AND SCOPE

The Ada Lovelace Guest Professorship will be launched starting at the next possible date . We are looking forward to your application for a one-time stay with a duration of 6-12 months in 2025 and 2026.

Our Ada Lovelace Guest Professor receives a basic monthly salary of 5,500 €. The position is expected to be full-time (40 hours per week).

You are welcome to a one-time travel allowance.

If you wish, a student assistant will be provided for the duration of your stay with half of the regular working hours (19h/week). Please inform us accordingly in your application.

DO WE HAVE YOUR ATTENTION?

You are an outstanding researcher who currently holds a professorship, a junior professor or a junior researcher who is at least at an advanced stage of the postdoc phase? And you want to commit to our success with your performance and personality? You are not in a service or employment relationship with TUD? Then we are looking out for your application!

TUD strives to employ more women in academia and research. We therefore expressly encourage women to apply. The University is a certified family-friendly university and offers a Dual Career Service. We welcome applications from candidates with disabilities. If multiple candidates prove to be equally qualified, those with disabilities or with equivalent status pursuant to the German Social Code IX (SGB IX) will receive priority for employment.

If you have any questions about these topics, please contact the Equal Opportunities Officer (Dr. Jutta Luise Eckhardt, +49 351 463-36423) or the Representative of Employees with Disabilities (Mr. Roberto Lemmrich, +49 351 463-33175).

SELECTION PROCEDURE

ScaDS.AI implements a selection committee that consists of a number of PIs from the two locations of ScaDS.AI. This involves the research area leads and additionally one PI from each research area. An equal opportunities officer will regularly be taking part.

Please submit your detailed application with the usual documents under the job ID " Ada_Lovelace " by July 24, 2025 , preferably via the TUD SecureMail Portal by sending it as a single pdf file to [email protected] or to: TU Dresden, CIDS, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang E. Nagel, Helmholtzstr. 10, 01069 Dresden, Germany . Please submit copies only, as your application will not be returned to you. Expenses incurred in attending interviews cannot be reimbursed.

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Excellence – A matter close to our hearts

Excellence? Elitism? Opportunity or risk? The Excellence Programme, initially launched in 2005 by the German government has aroused passionate debate right from the start and still has the potential to polarise opinion.

TU Dresden (TUD) looks at it this way: excellence is all about performance and having the right attitude. For everyone here at TU Dresden – one of eleven Universities of Excellence in Germany since 2012 – it is also a matter very close to our hearts. Firstly because of the extra motivation and impetus generated, and secondly, because of the way we handle this role.

Our vision for the future can be summed up as follows: “Let us become one of the leading centres for research and teaching, with our own individual character and a special talent for networking, able to attract the best minds in Germany and from further afield.” After all, it is a well-known fact that excellence in research and teaching presupposes excellent conditions. Or, to put it figuratively, for excellent crop yields, you need the right soil and weather.

TU Dresden is a comprehensive university with 18 faculties and works in close collaboration with its top performers: three Clusters of Excellence, including the “Centre for Tactile Internet” (CeTI) , the Cluster “Complexity and Topology in Quantum Matter” (ct.qmat) and the Cluster “Physics of Life” (PoL) . The guiding principle here is that strong individual elements become even stronger when they work together.

The vision for the future takes this principle beyond the confines of the university: with the research network DRESDEN-concept ( D resden R esearch and E ducation S ynergies for the D evelopment of E xcellence and N ovelty), TU Dresden has been creating an alliance of research and cultural facilities in the city, an “excellent playground for excellent people”. This bond is unique in Germany and has evolved over many years. It is not necessary to create anything new here, as it is simply a matter of building further storeys on top of an already solid structure. The measures envisaged as part of the DRESDEN-concept contribute to the overall development of TU Dresden and form an integral part of the university strategy.

Excellence is understood and practised in Dresden as an opportunity for the entire university, and in this spirit, TU Dresden takes those measures that lead to excellence – by the university, for the university – in cooperation with colleagues here and all over the world. But at the same time neither elitist nor exclusive. TUD’s excellence comes from the heart – from and for our about 32,400 students, 600 professors and about 8,400 members of staff. In this way, excellence becomes the basis, the objective, the approach and the driving force. And that’s why being a top performer can also be so rewarding and enjoyable.

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