Habilitation or comparable achievements

In Germany, qualification for a university professorship often still takes the form of a habilitation. In its classical form, this involves the preparation of a habilitation thesis and an examination procedure to determine the candidate's ability to teach in a scientific subject. Depending on the subject, however, it can also be achieved cumulatively, i.e. by publishing several relevant articles in specialist journals. The details are regulated in the habilitation regulations of the respective department (» Habilitation Regulations at JLU).

There is no uniform regulation on what can be understood as habilitation-equivalent achievement. Each university and the disciplines represented there determine this individually in the habilitation regulations.

For example, work that has been produced within the framework of an own research group can be considered equivalent. In some disciplines, for example, successful third-party funding for a junior research group can replace a habilitation.

A junior professorship is also often a way to demonstrate the "additional scientific achievements".

Your decisions on the orientation of your research profile may be helpful for the choice of your habilitation topic or comparable scientific achievements.