Job Opportunities

Join us in shaping the new Medical School OWL at Bielefeld University:
Future-oriented, interprofessional and strong in research and teaching

The Medical School OWL at Bielefeld University intends to fill at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at Campus Bielefeld-Bethel (CBB) a

Professorship for Neuropsychology of Mental Disorders and Participation (W2)

as soon as possible.

The Medical School OWL and the University Medical Center OWL (UMC OWL), with the Klinikum Bielefeld, Evangelisches Klinikum Bethel (EvKB) and Klinikum Lippe as holders, are a young, innovative location under construction. We are looking for individuals who understand this development situation as an opportunity to create and to actively shape research, teaching, health care and organization together with us. You will be significantly involved in implementing our model study program in human medicine and can contribute innovative ideas for teaching. Our career support programs, as well as our research support programs that aim at interdisciplinary cooperation, offer you a wide range of development opportunities. At the same time, we give you a special opportunity to participate in the design of the research profile “Medicine for people with disabilities and chronic illnesses”.

The call is targeting individuals with a promisingly national and international profile who can represent the field of expertise in research, teaching, and patient care comprehensively.

Qualifications required for the position:

• degree in Psychology (diploma/ master's degree) or Human Medicine
• relevant doctorate, with additionally scientific achievements according to § 36 paras. 1; no. 4 HG NRW
• very well scientific achievements in clinical and non-clinical neuropsychological research on mental/neuropsychiatric disorders demonstrated through publications and third-party funding
• many years of extensive clinical experience in the field of neuropsychology of mental disorders and leadership experience
• alignment with the research profile of the Medical School OWL
• extensive teaching experience and experience with innovative teaching formats in the subject to be represented
• experience and active participation in the equality-oriented promotion of young scientists

Also desired are:

• very well scientific achievements on the connection between neuropsychology/ neurocognition and aspects of participation (e.g. occupational and/or social reintegration/inclusion)
• additional qualification in clinical neuropsychology from the GNP or additional qualification in clinical neuropsychology from the Psychotherapeut*innenkammer
• experience in cooperation with clinically active physicians and psychologists/ psychotherapists in the neuroscientific and psychiatric/psychosomatic disciplines
• experience in planning, managing, and conducting preclinical and clinical studies
• experience in participation in scientific societies/committees

The Department for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Campus Bielefeld-Bethel (CBB) is a large hospital in the region and the UMC OWL with 436 beds and day-care hospital places (incl. inpatient-equivalent treatment) designated in the hospital plan and an institute outpatient clinic. It serves the entire city of Bielefeld in the meaning of an Epidemiologic Catchment Area. The spectrum of the clinic covers psychiatry and psychotherapy in its whole breadth, organized into specialist focus areas. For further information see: https://evkb.de/kliniken-zentren/psyche-nerven/psychiatrie-und-psychotherapie/ueber-uns/

With your participation, the clinical and preclinical research will be further expanded and implemented within the framework of a structural and development concept for the department. Expected is a further expansion of clinical-translational and preclinical as well as the expansion of participation-oriented research. In addition to the structures of the clinic’s research department, the establishment of an interdisciplinary neuro-core facility is planned; a neuromodulation unit is currently being set up in cooperation with the Department for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry as well as the Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors at the TU Dortmund University (IFADO).

We expect networking with other departments of the UMC OWL as well as the medical community in private practice in the region. Accordingly, we are looking for a personality with leadership experience and expertise in the entire field and excellent communication and coordination skills.

The EvKB would like to encourage female candidates, in particular, to apply for this position. Through a family-conscious personnel policy, EvKB promotes a viable balance between personal lifestyle and career. Competent support is provided in arranging childcare places.

For the appeal applies:

The requirements for employment follow § 36 HG. The tasks within patient care will be regulated via a contract with the EvKB.

Applications from suitable persons with severe disabilities and persons with disabilities of equal status are expressly encouraged.

Bielefeld University has received several awards for its successes within equality and is certified as a family-friendly university. The university pursues a committed equal opportunities policy concerning the appointment of professorships, among other things, and would expressly like to invite qualified female applicants to apply. Applications are treated in concept with the State Equality Act. Family times will be considered in the context of the selection decision.

The Medical School OWL and the EvKB consider equality between women and men to be one main task, and the future jobholder will be involved in its implementation.
Bielefeld University supports dual-career constellations to establish a common centre of life and work.

Please submit your application by 08/01/2026 via the online appointment portal of Bielefeld University:

https://berufungen.uni-bielefeld.de/

In addition to the usual application documents and information, we ask you to submit each a 2-page teaching and research concept paper and a concept concerning patient care. These concept papers should integrate gender- and diversity-specific content relevant to the advertised professorship. We expect a brief description of your previous and planned gender equality activities, besides, particularly for the promotion of young female scientists and the compatibility of career and family.

Contact:

Bielefeld University
Medical School OWL
The Dean Prof. Dr. med. Claudia Hornberg, Dipl.-Biol., Dipl.-Ökol.
PO Box 10 01 31
33501 Bielefeld
Phone +49 (0) 521/106-67467 (secretariat Stephanie Heuer)
dekanin.medizin@uni-bielefeld.de

and additionally

Evangelisches Klinikum Bethel
Director of the Department for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Prof. Dr. med. Martin Driessen
Phone +49 (0) 521/772-78451
martin.driessen@uni-bielefeld.de

Evangelisches Klinikum Bethel
the Scientific Director of the v. Bodelschwinghsche Stiftungen Bethel
Prof. Dr. med. Fritz Mertzlufft
Phone +49 (0)521 772-79010
fritz.mertzlufft@evkb.de

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