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UNIVERSITY
OF COLOGNE

Unfold your individual passions and talents.

VACANCIES

OUR UNIVERSITY.

We tackle social, political and economic challenges with our broad range of study programmes and by promoting cutting-edge research and innovation. We place particular emphasis on supporting talented people in developing their professional and academic careers.

Our mission is to research for society and to educate the next generation. We pursue modern approaches in ageing research and search for solutions in plant breeding that could one day contribute to food security around the world. We are developing new computing and networking architectures using the principles of quantum mechanics and we analyze the causes of market failure and resulting policy measures.

48.841
STUDENTS

34
GRADUATE
SCHOOLS

5.827
ACADEMIC
STAFF

209.9 M€
THIRD PARTY
FUNDING

335
STUDY
PROGRAMS

6
FACULTIES

92
PARTNER
UNIVERSITIES

11
RESEARCH &
TEACHING
CENTERS

WHO WE ARE.

Our dynamic international network and diverse campus life create a cosmopolitan, stimulating atmosphere and excellent opportunities for scientific and collegial exchange.

On top of our strong research and teaching network with over 500 cooperation partners in the international landscape of higher education, we have opened three liaison offices in Bejing, New Delhi and New York City. Our Welcome Center for international scholars in Cologne provides you with a wide range of services and support. We offerinternational scholars help for planning their stay in Cologne and for dealing with administrative issues and the practicalities of living in a foreign city (e.g. accommodation, childcare, schools).

COLOGNE OFFERS EXCELLENCE.

With its research and teaching priorities, the University moreover contributes to social discourse. Our scientists conduct research into the causes of aging-associated diseases such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s disease. In plant science, our researchers are developing plants that will help ensure that the world has enough to eat in the future. We are developing new computing and networking architectures using the principles of quantum mechanics to further communication and computing capacities. We analyze the causes of market failure and resulting policy measures to understand economic developments from all perspectives.

Last but not least, the University’s GATEWAY incubator offers our approximately 50.000 students and 9,000 employees a platform for setting up their own businesses, using the knowledge they have acquired here.

SUPPORTING SCIENCE

In order to promote the careers of our scholars and scientists and to help them develop a wide range of professional skills, the UoC has recently created an innovative HR development programme. The focus of this programme is not exclusively on career perspectives at the University – or in academia more generally. In our opinion, modern academic human resource development should also actively support alternative career paths in the public, private or civic sectors. We offer our scholars and scientists excellent conditions to help them actively shape their careers in research, teaching, science management or outside the university.

INNOVATIVE TEACHING

With its approximately 50,000 students, the University of Cologne (UoC) is one of Germany’s largest universities. Our goal is to introduce our students to academic work at an early stage and encourage them to develop their own individual profile. Research-based and practice-oriented course components as well as the free-choice Studium Integrale elective courses are the ideal way to do so. We place the same ambitious demand on our students as well as our faculty that they contribute to the continuous shaping and further development of studies and teaching at the UoC in a discursive and active way, this way assuming co-responsibility for the educational process (not just) at the University.

THIRD MISSION

We continuously generate knowledge in a variety of scientific disciplines. The Third Mission refers to all activities the University pursues to make this knowledge available to society and useful for the economy. At the same time, we take up impulses from outside the University for research and teaching. Interactive knowledge transfer is at the heart of all third mission activities. The third mission activities of the University of Cologne are in research transfer, social engagement and lifelong learning. In addition, the University of Cologne focuses on the areas of start-up and innovation, science communication and scientific further education.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES.
DIVERSITY. FAMILY.

In 2014, we received the “Total E-Quality Award” for outstanding gender equality work for the third time. We were also honoured for our gender equality concept within the German Professorinnenprogramm, a programme for the recruitment of more female professors. Promoting equal opportunities is central to the University of Cologne’s development strategy. In order to achieve this goal on all levels, the University headship also develops individually tailored strategies with each of its six Faculties. Last but not least, we have introduced a large number of structures and measures for inclusion, educational justice and anti-discrimination.

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University of Cologne

Location: Cologne, Germany | Closing on Oct 20

Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d) - Digitalisation in Healthcare

The University of Cologne is one of the largest and most research-intensive universities in Germany, offering a wide range of subjects. With its six faculties and its interfaculty centres, it offers a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines and internationally outstanding...