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 a

Professorship for Translational Dermatooncology (W2 TT W2 / W2)

as soon as possible. The professorship involves management responsibility in the position of a senior physician.

The Medical School OWL and the University Medical Center OWL (UMC OWL), with Klinikum Bielefeld, Evangelisches Klinikum Bethel (EvKB), and Klinikum Lippe, are a young and innovative medical location under development. We are seeking individuals who embrace this development process as an opportunity to actively create and shape research, teaching, patient care, and organization in collaboration 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 and research support programs, aimed at interdisciplinary cooperation, provide a wide range of development opportunities. At the same time, we offer you the unique opportunity to contribute in shaping the research profile “Medicine for people with disabilities and chronic illnesses”.

Qualifications required for the position include:

• specialist qualification in Dermatology and Venerology,
• relevant doctorate and additional scientific achievements according to § 36 paras. 1; no. 4 HG NRW,
• promising (W2 TT W2) or excellent (W2) scientific achievements demonstrated through publications,
• experience in the acquisition of ideally competitive third-party funding (W2 TT W2) or experience in project management and successful acquisition of (competitive) third-party funding (W2),
• broad clinical experience,
• clinical leadership experience, including proven experience in dermatological oncology,
• compatibility with the research profile of the Medical School OWL,
• substantial teaching experience in the relevant field with a focus on innovative teaching methods,
• experience and active participation in the equality-oriented promotion of young scientists.

Desirable qualifications:

• additional training in medical tumor therapy
• extensive experience as a clinical investigator in multicenter research projects and clinical trials
• participation in national and international professional associations and committees

As the holder of this position, you will make a significant contribution to the further development of academic medicine at the Department of Dermatology, Venereology, and Allergology. In close collaboration with the clinic director, you will establish the Skin Tumor Center at the Department of Dermatology, Venereology, and Allergology as part of the Oncology Center at Klinikum Bielefeld, where you will hold a joint management position. Klinikum Bielefeld is designated as an Oncology Center in the hospital plan of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and has also been certified as an Oncology Center by the German Cancer Society.

The UMC OWL Stem Cell Transplantation Center is currently being established at the campus of Klinikum Bielefeld.

In addition, you will establish a dermatological oncology research focus, preferably incorporating the existing clinical and scientific focus on inflammatory dermatoses. You will play an active role in the translational research laboratory, currently being established at the Department of Dermatology, Venereology, and Allergology. You will also expand the existing dermatological study center by conducting your own clinical-translational research projects in collaboration with the emerging Center for Translational Medicine at the Medical School OWL of Bielefeld University.

We expect close collaboration with other departments of the UMC OWL, other faculties of Bielefeld University, and the medical community (private practices) in the region. Therefore, we are seeking an individual with leadership experience and expertise in the entire field of Translational Dermato-Oncology, along with excellent communication and coordination skills.

Klinikum Bielefeld aims to increase the proportion of women in management positions and strongly encourages women to apply. Klinikum Bielefeld stands for a family-friendly working environment tailored to your wishes and requirements. We offer an in-house daycare center with the option of bilingual education.

The following applies to appointments:

The appointment requirements are governed by § 36 HG. The duties within the scope of clinical care are regulated by a contract with Klinikum Bielefeld.

The W2 TT W2 appointment is initially limited to five years; after appointment, a target agreement is formulated. In the event of a positive tenure evaluation in the final year /, the subsequent transfer to a permanent W3 professorship is planned. Tenure evaluations are regulated in the statutes on quality assurance of professorships with tenure track (TT). Tenure track professorships are firmly established at Bielefeld University as an equal employment option. Tenure track professors are offered a target group-specific personnel development program that provides support during the arrival phase and in preparation for the tenure evaluation.

Applications from qualified individuals with severe disabilities and those with equivalent disabilities are strongly 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 and would expressly encourage qualified female applicants to apply. Applications will be treated in accordance with the State Equality Act. Family times will be considered in the context of the selection decision.

The Medical School OWL and Klinikum Bielefeld consider equality between women and men as an important task, which the future job holder will help to implement.

Bielefeld University supports dual-career constellations to establish a common center of life and work.

Please submit your application by 26/02/2026 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

Campus Klinikum Bielefeld
Prof. Dr.med. Selma Ugurel 
Director of the University Clinic for Dermatology, Venerology an Allergology, Campus Klinikum Bielefeld 
Phone +49 (0) 521/581-8800 
selma.ugurel@klinikumbielefeld.de

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