Professorship in Software Requirements Engineering

Aschaffenburg University of Applied Sciences is a practice-oriented and family-friendly university in the Rhine-Main region. We are characterized by excellent study conditions, high quality and excellent performance in research, teaching, transfer and further education. We foster a personal and lively culture of learning and discussion on campus as a place of encounter. We cooperate with scientific communities, with companies at home as well as abroad and promote our young academics. Shape the future with us.

Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science | 15^th of September 2025 reference number sd-w-12 | renumeration corresponds to grade W2 BayBesG

Your area of responsibility

In the area of your denomination, you teach students scientific methods and pass on your practical professional experience. In consultation with the study programme coordinators, you will take on responsibility for modules and teach courses in English and German language across multiple fields of software design, including requirements engineering. You will further teach courses in areas adjacent to your denomination as required.

You are responsible for supervising student projects and theses in the Software Design and Software Design International degree programmes.

You actively support the development of the study programmes Software Design and Software Design International, for example through involvement in the external presentation of the study programme or by expanding our network with local industry for cooperation in teaching. Furthermore, you actively contribute to the academic self-administration of the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science.

What you bring with you

You are team-oriented and motivated and would like to get involved in the Software Design and Software Design International degree programmes.

You have sound knowledge and current professional experience in the area of software requirements engineering. You have professional experience and are willing to teach classes in the following areas: agile development methods, multimedia technologies, object-oriented programming, and parallel and distributed computing.

You have successfully completed a degree in computer science, software engineering or a similar subject and have demonstrated your ability to think and work scientifically through a very good doctorate or an equivalent, scientific achievement.

You have excellent knowledge of English and German and are willing to teach courses in both of these languages. You communicate in an appreciative and goal-oriented manner, collaborate constructively and trustingly with others on a professional and social level.

Desirably, you also have international experience through academic and/or professional stays abroad and are sensitive to discrimination structures.

You meet the general recruitment requirements. You can find these here: www.th-ab.de/professuren.

What matters to us

• A respectful, collegial environment
• A structured onboarding program and possibilities of further education and individual training
• Flexible working time arrangements
• We actively pursue professional equality between women and men and aim to increase our current proportion of female professors of 30%
• We support the balancing of family and career: we are very proud of our certificate (audit family-friendly university); you can find our information on this topic at: www.th-ab.de/fgh.

Things to know

Severely disabled persons shall be given preference in the event of otherwise essentially equal suitability, ability and professional performance. In order to enforce equal rights, women are particularly promoted, taking into account the priority of suitability, ability and professional performance. Information is also available here: www.werdeprofessorin.de. Anyone who has not yet reached the age of 52 may be appointed as a civil servant. Information on data protection in the context of applications can be found at: www.th-ab.de/professuren.

Please note that only the German version of the job advertisement is binding.

We look forward to getting to know you!

Please send your detailed application, quoting the reference number, by 1^st of July 2025 at the latest, via our online portal for the attention of the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science.

Your contact persons

If you have any questions about equal opportunities, please contact the university‘s Women‘s Representative, Prof. Dr. Kristina Balleis, phone: +49-(0)6021/4206-751, email: frauenbeauftragte@th-ab.de.

If you have any questions about the call for applications and the procedure, please contact the Human Resources Department,

Mr. Simon Mergler, phone: +49 (0)6021/4206-663, email: p-amt@th-ab.de.