A World of Opportunities – as a Postdoc at TUM

Postdoc researchers at Technische Universität München (TUM) will find an inspiring research environment coupled with excellent back-up services. We offer our young scientists a family service, professional assistance when applying for external funds and further training and careers programs. Find out more about what we can do for you!

Job vacancies: Careers at TUM

: Follow your passion – like biologist Prof. Jürgen Geist Photo: Andreas Heddergott

TUM Faculty Tenure Trackis a structured new career path for promotion from assistant to full professor. It represents a groundbreaking development in Germany’s higher education recruitment landscape, taking the uncertainty out of the promotion ladder by offering concrete, predictable opportunities to young international scientists.
Overview: Browse for all current open positions at TUM: professorships, positions for posdtocs or doctoral candidates.

Research Opportunities Week

: See what we have to offer – with the Postdoc Mobility FellowshipPhoto: Andreas Heddergott

We invite you to visit Germany’s top technical university for one week – with all costs covered by the Postdoc Mobility Fellowship.

You will get to meet some exceptional academics, explore the research facilities at TUM and enjoy the best of Bavarian hospitality in one of Germany’s most beautiful cities.
Research scholarship: At the end of your stay, you could be offered a TUM University Foundation Fellowship to carry out your research at TUM. Apply here

Make the most of our services

TUM offers an excellent support infrastructure to support your research, your family life and further training aspirations. We offer all this so that you are free to unfold your full academic creativity.

TUM Talent Factory

: Go for it – with support from the TUM Talent Factory. Photo: Andreas Heddergott

For every stage of the postdoc process, the TUM Talent Factory provides tailored services. These include assistance when applying for scholarships as well as when writing or filling out funding applications. More

ForTe: Rraising external funds

: Working towards new discoveries in physics with physics professor Laura Fabietti.Photo: Andreas Heddergott

Would you like to market your invention? Are you looking to raise external funds? ? Then talk to TUM ForTe – TUM’s dedicated office for research promotion and technology transfer into society. More

Services for families

: TUM will help you find the right childcare. Photo: Astrid Eckert

TUM’s Family Service can help you find the right child care and schools in Munich, also advising you on how to balance family and career. In addition, it can offer you support if you are caring for a dependent relative. More

Further training

: Top teacher: Teaching prize winner Dr. Michael Zwick. Photo: Astrid Eckert

Wimes is our further and advanced training program: Improve your leadership skills, work/life balance or academic writing skills.
Language courses: Learn any of 15 languages, ranging from German to Japanese. Get help from the English Writing Center.
ProLehre: Improve your teaching skills.

TUM Junior Fellows

We’d like you to meet our TUM Junior Fellows : They are young research team leaders who work independently at TUM and are particularly successful at raising external funds. Read the profiles of the TUM Junior Fellows here.

Faculties

TUM’s 13 faculties offer a broad range of subjects, regularly powering TUM to the top of international ranking lists as German’s best technical university. More

Integrative Research Centers

Postdocs are among the scientists looking for solutions for major challenges of the future in TUM’s four Integrative Research Centers – including the TUM Institute for Advanced Study (TUM-IAS). The three-year Carl von Linde Junior Fellowships at the TUM-IAS have been set up especially for experienced postdocs. Here, postdocs are freed from other university commitments to devote themselves to their research.

Excellence Clusters

These interdisciplinary research projects funded under the Excellence Initiative. TUM is the host university of the “Origin and Structure of the Universe” cluster. More

International Graduate School IGSSE

Postdocs head up interdisciplinary teams of doctoral candidates at the International Graduate School of Science and Engineering (IGSSE). This is a great way for postdocs to find their feet in the world of academic research. More