Lise Meitner Research Group

“Free science is as natural as free breathing.” – Lise Meitner

The Max Planck Society (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V.) is a world-leading, independent, non-profit research organization with the goal to promote cutting-edge basic research. Within 84 Max Planck Institutes over 24,000 employees pursue basic research in broad areas of life and natural sciences as well as humani­ties, social sciences and law and have a strong interest in innovative and interdisciplinary research areas.

Lise Meitner Research Group
(Tenure track positions at Max Planck Institutes)

The Max Planck Society invites outstanding applicants to apply for tenure track Lise Meitner Research Group Leader positions. The appoint­ments will be made in partner­ship with suitable Max Planck Insti­tutes according to the applicants’ research topics. With the Lise Meitner Excellence Program, the Max Planck Society ex­pressly aims to attract and promote the careers of out­standing female scientists who are at an early stage of their scientific career and have a docu­mented track record of inde­pendent and innovative research.

The successful candidates will be offered a Lise Meitner Research Group at a suitable Max Planck Institute for an initial period of six years plus one additional year for parental leave. The funding pack­age includes a W2 tenure track position (equi­valent to assistant / associate professor), resources for scientific staff and running costs, as well as a start-up package. Upon success­ful tenure eva­luation, latest five years after the start of the group, the W2 position and financial support will be continued. For particularly outstanding group leaders, however, this eva­luation can also be carried out at any time beforehand. Further career develop­ment is possible including consi­deration for a Max Planck Director position within the Max Planck Society.
The purpose of the Lise Meitner Excellence Program is to increase the number of excellent women scientists in the Max Planck Society. Therefore, the program primarily focuses on the recruitment of out­standing women scientists, though it is open to all appli­cants (for details, see Lise Meitner Excellence Program: FAQs: https://www.mpg.de/11963177/faqs-to-lise-meitner-excellence-program ). Furthermore, the MPG is committed to increasing the number of indi­viduals with disa­bilities in its work­force and there­fore encourages appli­cations from such quali­fied individuals.

Your application should include

• a cover letter
• a CV
• a list of publications
• a one-page summary of scientific achievements (written for a non-specialist)
• a research statement of maximal three or five* pages (written for a specialist)
• copies of three most important publications
• names and contact details of three other scientists as experts in your research area

combined in one PDF file.

You are also required to invite two reviewers to upload recommendation letters for you to the application portal.

Only necessary for applicants in the field of the field of Chemistry, Physics and Technical Section: Please provide a host letter from at least one Max Planck Institute in the relevant research areas*.

For more details about the program (including further application instructions*) and to submit your application online, please visit https://www.mpg.de/lise-meitner-excellence-program .

The deadline for applications is April 10th, 2024.

For more information about the Max Planck Society and its institutes, please see https://www.mpg.de/en/ .