The Faculty of Medicine of Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU) and the University Hospital Giessen and Marburg GmbH (UKGM), Giessen Campus, invite applications for a
W2 Professorship in Surgical Oncology
as of the earliest possible date. Reference is made to § 67 Para. 7 Hessian Higher Education Act (HessHG), the non-tariff terms of employment apply, and to the conditions of employment based on § 68 HessHG. Proficient knowledge of German is expected.
Duties:
You represent the field of surgical oncology within the Clinic for General, Visceral, Thoracic and Transplant Surgery in research, teaching, and patient care across the entire spectrum, and will further develop this field through modern approaches in clinical and translational research.
Your clinical work will cover the fields of visceral and thoracic surgery, including laparoscopic, thoracoscopic, and robotic procedures. You will be expected to initiate and coordinate clinical projects and studies through the Giessen branch of the Marburg Coordinating Center for Clinical Trials (KKS) and the Surgical Center for Clinical Trials Giessen (SCCTG). In addition, emphasis will be placed on the use of modern information technologies and artificial intelligence. All tasks related to the professorship in patient care are regulated by the UKGM.
Teaching duties will include the clinical component of medical students’ training. Your course offerings will integrate current, clinically relevant research with student and interprofessional education. In addition, you should teach highly specialized, complex surgical oncology through elective courses and specialized programs to students, including those in their clinical rotation.
You will actively contribute to existing collaborative research consortia at JLU – in particular, the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), and the Cluster of Excellence – “Cardio-Pulmonary Institute” (CPI). Furthermore, you will independently acquire external funding for projects and participate in national and international research networks (e.g. the “Network of University Medicine” (NUM) or the “Medical Informatics in Research and Care in University Medicine” (MIRACUM consortium)).
With the establishment of the professorship, you will also actively participate in expanding the study infrastructure through cooperation and integration into existing networks, such as the cross-site surgical trial network CHIR-Net, but also into regionally important networks, such as the University Colorectal Center of Central Hessen (UDM). Alongside a close cooperation with the general, visceral, thoracic, and transplantation surgery of the UKGM at the Marburg site, you will primarily bring your expertise into the establishment of the Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCC) Frankfurt-Giessen-Marburg and integrate it across sites into the consortium.
You are also expected to participate in the Giessen Graduate Centre for the Life Sciences (GGL), the structured graduate program for promoting early-career researchers (JLU TRAINEE), and the clinician scientist program (JLU CAREER).
An integration of gender aspects in research, teaching, and patient care is explicitly desired.
The universities of Giessen and Marburg have established the Research Campus of Central Hessen together with Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen – University of Applied Sciences. Within this framework, the two Faculties of Medicine engage in structured cooperation based on coordinated priorities. Accordingly, you are expected to demonstrate a willingness for interdisciplinary and inter-university collaboration within campus research foci and profile areas as well as participation in joint research projects. In particular, cross university/hospital patient-oriented clinical research and participation in joint clinical studies is expected.
Requirements:
The prerequisites for this position include a successfully completed university education in medicine as well as the necessary qualification for scientific work according to § 67 Para. 1 HessHG, usually proven by an outstanding, subject-relevant doctorate. In addition, excellent additional academic achievements (proven e.g. by a habilitation or in the form of internationally recognized, subject-specific publications in renowned national and international journals) are required.
You should also have experience in coordinating scientific projects within interdisciplinary networks, as well as demonstrate success in the independent acquisition of external funding.
Proof of a specialist qualification (board certification) in general or visceral surgery is required, as well as experience in minimally invasive (robotic) surgery. Furthermore, you should have a specialization in the field of oncological visceral surgery. This specialization can be demonstrated, for example, by the additional designation “Specialized Visceral Surgery”, the “Surgical Oncology EBSQ Examination”, or by certification as a board-certified specialist in thoracic surgery.
Additionally, proof of a special pedagogical aptitude is required as a qualification to represent the specialist field in academic teaching with great commitment in its whole scope.
The JLU welcomes qualified applications regardless of biological and social gender (m/f/d), disability, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, ideology, age as well as sexual orientation and identity. The JLU aims for a higher proportion of women in accordance with the women's promotion plan. We therefore particularly encourage qualified female candidates to apply. JLU is certified as a family-friendly university. Applications from disabled people of equal aptitude will be given preference.
We strongly recommend candidates to refer to our fact sheet on application procedures. Applicants are encouraged additionally to fill in one of the forms (Bewerbungsbogen – application form).
Please send your application with the required documents via online form to the President of Justus Liebig University Giessen by July 31st, 2026, quoting the reference number K-12/26.
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