Join the team and shape the engineering of the future with us!

Working in the Advanced Systems Engineering department is characterised by a broad spectrum of activities in research, teaching and consulting. All aspects follow a proven qualification plan that qualifies you for high-calibre management or expert tasks in industry or research following your doctorate.
Many of our research projects are highly practice-orientated. In collaboration with industry partners and other universities and research institutions, you will work on exciting and practice-relevant issues in business and systems engineering. All research projects offer you sufficient freedom to work on your doctoral dissertation.

As a research assistant, you will play an active role in shaping our teaching. This applies in particular to the supervision of student work on your own topics or on topics from our industry partners. You can also get involved in our lectures and introduce students to our methods and tools.
In our consulting projects, you will get to know renowned companies, identify and solve their problems and build up a network. You will use established business and systems engineering methods and adapt them to the specific application. You will discuss and present your results to subject areas, managers and even company management. You will incorporate the results of your own research into consulting projects and obtain feedback from the field.
Finally, we offer you high-quality management training. We offer you up to 7 days per year for training and development programmes with leading experts. This includes both professional and personal development training. You will initially gain initial responsibility by supervising student assistants. Later, you will manage challenging projects independently or take over the management of a team.

Over the course of four to five years, you will write your doctoral dissertation. This follows an established process. In the first year, you will develop your dissertation idea in close consultation with colleagues, managers and Prof Roman Dumitrescu. You present this in the so-called doctoral round and receive feedback from your colleagues at the chair and the Fraunhofer IEM. Three further presentations will follow at intervals of 9-12 months until you receive your doctorate: the problem analysis, the analysis of the state of the art and the solution approach. At the same time, you will publish your research and present it at national and international conferences. At the end of your time at the chair, you will write up your doctoral dissertation.