W2 Professorship in Surgical Oncology

W2 Professorship in Surgical Oncology

The Faculty of Medicine of Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU) and the University Hospital Giessen and Marburg GmbH (UKGM), Giessen Campus, invite applications for a

W2 Professorship in Surgical Oncology

as of the earliest possible date. Reference is made to § 67 Para. 7 Hessian Higher Education Act (HessHG), the non-tariff terms of employment apply, and to the conditions of employment based on § 68 HessHG. Proficient knowledge of German is expected.

Duties:

You represent the field of surgical oncology within the Clinic for General, Visceral, Thoracic and Transplant Surgery in research, teaching, and patient care across the entire spectrum, and will further develop this field through modern approaches in clinical and translational research.

Your clinical work will cover the fields of visceral and thoracic surgery, including laparoscopic, thoracoscopic, and robotic procedures. You will be expected to initiate and coordinate clinical projects and studies through the Giessen branch of the Marburg Coordinating Center for Clinical Trials (KKS) and the Surgical Center for Clinical Trials Giessen (SCCTG). In addition, emphasis will be placed on the use of modern information technologies and artificial intelligence. All tasks related to the professorship in patient care are regulated by the UKGM.

Teaching duties will include the clinical component of medical students training. Your course offerings will integrate current, clinically relevant research with student and interprofessional education. In addition, you should teach highly specialized, complex surgical oncology through elective courses and specialized programs to students, including those in their clinical rotation.

You will actively contribute to existing collaborative research consortia at JLU – in particular, the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), and the Cluster of Excellence – “Cardio-Pulmonary Institute” (CPI). Furthermore, you will independently acquire external funding for projects and participate in national and international research networks (e.g. the “Network of University Medicine” (NUM) or the “Medical Informatics in Research and Care in University Medicine” (MIRACUM consortium)).

With the establishment of the professorship, you will also actively participate in expanding the study infrastructure through cooperation and integration into existing networks, such as the cross-site surgical trial network CHIR-Net, but also into regionally important networks, such as the University Colorectal Center of Central Hessen (UDM). Alongside a close cooperation with the general, visceral, thoracic, and transplantation surgery of the UKGM at the Marburg site, you will primarily bring your expertise into the establishment of the Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCC) Frankfurt-Giessen-Marburg and integrate it across sites into the consortium.

You are also expected to participate in the Giessen Graduate Centre for the Life Sciences (GGL), the structured graduate program for promoting early-career researchers (JLU TRAINEE), and the clinician scientist program (JLU CAREER).

An integration of gender aspects in research, teaching, and patient care is explicitly desired.

The universities of Giessen and Marburg have established the Research Campus of Central Hessen together with Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen – University of Applied Sciences. Within this fr