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Appointments and Professorial Appointments

Appointments

Dr. Lukas Arnold, Institute for Advanced Simulation, has been appointed to a professorship for Computational Civil Engineering at the University of Wuppertal.
Prof. Svenja Caspers, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, has been appointed Director of the Institute of Anatomy at the University Hospital Düsseldorf.
Dr.-Ing. Daniel Durini, Central Institute of Engineering, Electronics and Analytics, has accepted a professorship in the Electronics Department of the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica – INAOE) in Tonantzintla, Puebla, Mexico.
Dr. Li Feng, Institute of Energy and Climate Research, has been appointed professor by the New Energy Technology Engineering Laboratory of the Jiangsu Province & School of Science, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NJUPT), Nanjing, China.
Prof. Sonja Grün, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, has been appointed by RWTH Aachen University to a W3 professorship for Theoretical Systems Neurobiology at Faculty I.
Dr. Pitter Huesgen, Central Institute of Engineering, Electronics and Analytics, has accepted an appointment by the University of Cologne to a W2 professorship for Biochemistry at the Faculty of Medicine.
Prof. Jan Marienhagen, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, has been appointed to a W3 professorship by BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg for the subject “Synthetic Microbiology”, and to a W2 professorship for the subject “Synthetic Cell Factories” by RWTH Aachen University. He accepted the appointment by RWTH Aachen University.
Prof. Yuriy Mokrousov, Peter Grünberg Institute, has been appointed by Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, subject of Physics.
Dr. Chengwang Niu, Peter Grünberg Institute, has been appointed to a professorship of physics at the School of Physics, Shandong University, China.
Prof. Dörte Rother, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, has accepted the appointment by RWTH Aachen University to a W2 professorship for the subject “Synthetic Enzyme Cascades”.
Prof. Gunnar Schröder, Institute of Complex Systems, has accepted an appointment by Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf to a W2 professorship for Computational Structural Biology at the Department of Physics.
Prof. Birgit Strodel, Institute of Complex Systems, has been appointed professor for “Multiscale Modelling of Protein Interactions” at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.
Prof. Simon Thiele, Institute of Energy and Climate Research, has accepted the appointment by Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg to a W2 professorship for Electrocatalytic Interfacial Engineering at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering
PD Dr. Ruslan Temirov, Peter Grünberg Institute, has been appointed by the University of Cologne to a W2-professorship for Experimental Physics.
Prof. Markus Ternes, Peter Grünberg Institute, has been appointed by RWTH Aachen University to a Heisenberg professorship at the Chair of Experimental Physics.
Dr. Ilia Valov, Peter Grünberg Institute, has been appointed a Full Professor by the University of Groningen, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials.
Prof. Nick Wierckx, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, has accepted the appointment by Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf to a W2 professorship for the subject Microbial Biotechnology.

Professorial appointments

Prof. Simon Eickhoff has been appointed to Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and to the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine.
Prof. Carsten Sachse has been appointed to Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and to the Ernst Ruska-Centre.
Prof. Gunnar Schröder and Prof. Birgit Strodel have been appointed to Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and to the Institute of Complex Systems.
Prof. Nick Wierckx has been appointed to the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and to the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine.
Prof. Sonja Grün has been appointed to RWTH Aachen University and to the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine.
Prof. Jia Grace Lu has been appointed to RWTH Aachen University and to the Peter Grünberg Institute.
Prof. Michael Eikerling has been appointed to RWTH Aachen University and to the Institute of Energy and Climate Research when he took up his duties in 2019
Prof. Dörte Rother has been appointed to RWTH Aachen University and to the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences.
Prof. Christoph Brabec and Prof. Simon Thiele have been appointed to FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg and to the Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg for Renewable Energy.
Prof. Tommaso Calarco has been appointed to the University of Cologne and to the Peter Grünberg Institute.
Prof. Alexander Drzezga has been appointed to the University of Cologne and to the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine.
Prof. Yuriy Gennadiyevich Mokrousov has been appointed to Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and to the Institute for Advanced Simulation.

Joint professorial appointments with universities

As of: 31.12.2018

University	Jülich model¹⁾	of which new appointments in 2018	Karlsruhe model²⁾	of which new appointments in 2018	analogous to Berlin model³⁾	of which new appointments in 2018	Total

FH-Aachen	7						7
HHU-Düsseldorf	15	4	7	1			22
RWTH-Aachen University	50	3	13				63
Bielefeld University	1						1
Ruhr Universität Bochum	6						6
University of Bonn	9		3				12
TU Dortmund	1						1
University of Duisburg-Essen	4						4
FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg	3	1	2	1			5
University of Cologne	10	1	3	1			13
KU Leuven					1		1
UCL Louvain					1		1
JGU Mainz	1	1					1
WWU Münster	1						1
University of Regensburg	1						1
University of Stuttgart	1						1
University of Wuppertal	5						5
Total	115	10	28	3	2	0	145

1) „Jülicher Modell“ (leave of absence model): an appointment made to a professorship at a university is combined with a leave of absence and a discontinuation of emoluments. The jointly appointed person assumes reduced teaching duties at the university. The research institution pays the emoluments in accordance with the W pay scale
2) “Karlsruhe model” (previously “reverse model”) (secondary employment model): the appointment is made to a professorship at a university. As a secondary employment, the jointly appointed person takes on additional functions in the cooperating research institution. The university pays the negotiated emoluments. The sideline activity is paid separately by the research institution.
3)“Berlin model” (refunding model): in this model, a joint appointment is made to a professorship at a university and the person is assigned to carry out research and management tasks at the research institution. The university pays the emoluments in full. The research institution reimburses the university for the emoluments.

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