The School of Business and Economics at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin is looking to fill a
Junior Professorship in “Applied Statistics and Data Science”
starting 1 October 2026.
This is a tenure track position, with an initial level W1 and with the possibility of a promotion to level W3.
The professorship is to support the faculty in teaching and research in the field of its denomination. In teaching, participation in the bachelor's, master's and doctoral programs of the faculty as well as in the Berlin-wide joint master's program in statistics
is expected. In particular, the teaching curriculum of the faculty is to be strengthened by new offers at the interface of statistics and machine learning.
In research, the professorship is to conduct research that develops and applies methods in the field of statistics and data science. Desirable are, for example, methodological research foci in the area of Statistical and Machine Learning, Causal Inference,
Statistical Inference for Machine Learning Methods, or Probabilistic Machine Learning or related areas. The research results should be published in the relevant international journals and be presented at relevant international conferences.
It is expected that the professorship will work closely with members of the faculty within joint research projects. In particular, cooperation with the current DFG-funded collaborative research networks, the AI research unit "Fusing Deep Learning and Statistics
towards Understanding Structured Biomedical Data" and the Transregios "Accounting for Transparency" and "Rationality & Competition" is explicitly desired.
The applicants must meet the legal requirements for professorial appointments in conjunction with § 102c combined with § 102a of the ‘Berliner Hochschulgesetz’.
HU is seeking to increase the proportion of women in research and teaching, and specifically encourages qualified female scholars to apply. Researchers from abroad are welcome to apply. Severely disabled applicants with equivalent qualifications will be given
preferential consideration. People with an immigration history are specifically encouraged to apply.
Please send your application including your CV, a letter of motivation, a research exposé, your job market paper (or other scientific work) as well as two reference letters, quoting the Job ID JP/004/25 to: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Dean of the School
of Business and Economics, Prof. Dr. Daniel Klapper, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin only in electronic form in one pdf file to: dekanat.wiwi@hu-berlin.de.
For further information, please contact Professor Sonja Greven (sonja.greven@hu-berlin.de) and Professor Stefan Lessmann (stefan.lessmann@hu-berlin.de).
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