Faculty Recruiting

Professors: Faculty recruiting and career advancement

We are looking for creative scientists to conduct groundbreaking research and inspiring teaching. Join our international faculty of more than 600 professors.

Whether we appoint promising postdocs to our tenure track, or recruit internationally renowned top scientists as full professors: Our faculty brings together excellent scientists and university teachers with diverse experience, creativity, and expertise.

Our faculty is shaped by a modern recruitment and career system, which is unique in Germany and based on international standards. Transparent performance criteria open up reliable career prospects. For example, our tenure-track model offers the opportunity to advance from an entry-level appointment to a W3 full professorship based on outstanding performance.

What are the steps in TUM's career system?

Tenure Track Assistant Professor: For early career scientists with first scientific successes and a convincing research program. The W2 professorship is limited to 6 years with a tenure option - that means the chance of promotion to a permanent W3 professorship.

Associate Professor: For established researchers with an international reputation. This is a tenured W3 position with the possibilty of promotion to full professorship after at least 3 years and a successful evaluation.

Full Professor: For experienced scholars who are international leaders in their discipline. Tenured professorship on a W3 pay grade with extensive resources, equivalent to a traditional chair.

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For early-career scientists

Tenure Track: the career path

It is the first true tenure-track system based on international standards at a German university: the TUM Faculty Tenure Track, which leads to a permanent W3 professorship upon successful evaluation.

All important information about the tenure-track phase, available resources, and on how we support our young talents in their personal development to become researchers with an international reputation.

Performance for success

Evaluation and advancement

Excellent performance in research and technology development, strong as well as innovative teaching, and exemplary academic engagement: Successful evaluations according to transparent criteria are the prerequisite for advancement in the career system and for successful completion of the tenure-track phase.

Evaluations follow best international quality standards, thus ensuring the academic excellence of our university.

For a successful start

Video series

NewIn: Portraits of our new appointees

What attracts scientists to TUM? What applications do they see for their research, and what has their career been like so far? In the "NewIn" series, we introduce professors newly appointed to our university and show what they are passionate about - both in and outside of work.

Meet our international faculty

Get to know the members of our faculty: 700 professors research and teach at TUM today, 169 of them are women. In the years 2006–2024, we appointed 291 professors from outside Germany.

Unique academic environmentUniversity of Excellence

In 2026, we secured the title “University of Excellence” for the fourth time in succession. With the funding, we can now implement our institutional strategy: the TUM Agenda 2030+.

Future conceptSchools and research centers

Our schools form the academic foundation of our university, connected by integrative research institutes at the interfaces between disciplines to create an innovation-friendly matrix.

Schools and research centersOur research goals

From basic research to the challenges facing society: With our guiding principle of "society-centered research and innovation," we put society at the center of research and innovation.

Our goalsCluster of Excellence

The origin of the universe and life, technologies and society, sustainable energy supply, nucleic acid research, quantum technology, biophysics and systems neuroscience: we conduct research on these topics in seven Clusters of Excellence.

Clusters at a glanceMunich ecosystem

An ecosystem of cutting-edge research, global companies and high-tech start-ups puts Bavaria's capital among the strongest innovation centers in all of Europe's major cities.

Discover the ecosystemCampus locations

With Garching, Weihenstephan, Straubing and Heilbronn and international locations on several continents, TUM today extends far beyond its historic campus in Munich.

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What matters to us

Learn more about the goals and values that guide us - in our actions, in our dealings with each other and with our cooperation partners.

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Do you have any questions? Contact us

Technical University of Munich
Faculty Recruitment, Career Advancement and Dual Career
Arcisstr. 21
D-80333 Munich
facultyrecruiting @tum.de

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