Tenure-Track-Professorship (W1) “Process Simulation” (f/m/d)

Area of research:Other

Starting date:06.10.2026

Job description:Research

• You will conduct research in the field of process simulation, ranging from numerical foundations and mechanistic and hybrid modeling approaches to the multiscale representation of processes and process value chains in particle technology.
• You will develop and integrate methods and concepts from artificial intelligence, thereby creating links between product design, process development, and simulation.
• Through simulation-based research, you will investigate and develop strategies for transferring processes to the industrial scale (scale-up) and incorporate methods for techno-economic assessment.
• You will address data quality, data integration, and data management for process simulation.

Teaching

• You will make a significant contribution to research-oriented teaching in both fundamental and application-oriented courses, with a focus on process simulation and computational methods.
• You will develop topic-specific courses for the study programs Chemical and Process Engineering (B.Sc./M.Sc.), Computational Modeling in Engineering (M.Sc.), and Bioengineering (B.Sc./M.Sc.) at the KIT Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, and supervise student projects.
• The position involves a teaching load of 4 hours per week; following a positive evaluation, this increases to 6 hours per week.

Knowledge Transfer and Innovation

• You will contribute to the development of new software tools.
• You will establish contacts with regional and supra-regional industrial partners and contribute to continuing education and professional training programs for industry.

This research center is part of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers. With more than 42,000 employees and an annual budget of over € 5 billion, the Helmholtz Association is Germany's largest scientific organisation.