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Elite professorships for the University of Hamburg: A new impetus for research!
The University of Hamburg announces new professorships, retirements and participation in the tenure track program to promote young scientists.
Elite professorships for the University of Hamburg: A new impetus for research!
A breath of fresh air is blowing through the University of Hamburg: several high-profile appointments bring forward-looking impulses. Prof. Dr. Philipp Porada will take over the position for “Ecological Modeling” from October 1, 2025 and will thus play an important role in research on ecological issues at the UHH. Also Prof. Dr. Julian Holstein has accepted a call for “string geometry”, also starting in October. These new members of the faculty staff represent the university's ambitions to further expand its research priorities, as uni-hamburg.de reports.
There are also exciting developments in the field of educational sciences: Prof. Dr. Katharina Walgenbach is appointed to the University of Hamburg to focus on “education and society”. She is scheduled to begin her duties on January 1, 2026. Another new addition is Prof. Dr. Julia Nantke, who will focus on “Modern German Literature” and Digital Humanities, also starting in October.
Academic Honors and Retirement
In the “Academic Honors” section, PD Dr. Gabriele Escherich, the Medical Faculty, has been calling herself a professor since May 22, 2025. Also Dr. Boris Dzida and PD Dr. Monika Pötter-Nerger was awarded the professorship in the last few weeks. Both will enrich the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Medicine in the future.
But there are also changes in the workforce: Barbara Gutzeit, who has been part of the university since August 1, 2008, is retiring on July 31. Likewise, Dr. Andreas Pommerening-Röser left the university at the same time, having been employed since July 1, 1997. They leave traces at the UHH that will not soon be forgotten.
Tenure track program for a new career strategy
A groundbreaking concept is the tenure track program in which the UHH is involved in order to promote academic careers in Germany. This program aims to establish the principle of “getting – supporting – keeping” for young scientists. As tenuretrack.de explains, this is intended to create added value compared to the previous career pattern.
Through careful design of the appointment process and the support of tenure-track professors, the aim is to enable transparent career entry and predictable advancement opportunities. The BMBF is providing up to 1 billion euros until 2032 for funding in order to secure long-term retention strategies for tenure-track professorships, as bmbf.de describes in detail. The UHH therefore sees the funding offer not only as an opportunity to compare career paths, but also as an opportunity to increase the university's competitiveness.
The advantages of the tenure track program are clear: It offers young scientists a reliable professional perspective and transforms career paths so that they become more predictable and transparent. A real win for the UHH and young academics!
With these important personnel decisions and strategies, the University of Hamburg shows that it is well positioned for the challenges of the future and is ready to actively shape the academic discourse.