Full Professor of Virtual and Augmented Reality

**Announcement**:
The University of Klagenfurt wants to attract more qualified women for professorships.

The University of Klagenfurt is pleased to announce the following open position in the Department of Information Technology (ITEC) within the Faculty of Technical Sciences, in compliance with the provisions of Art. 98 (open-ended) or Art. 99 (limited to 5 years) of the Austrian Universities Act:
**Full Professor of**Virtual and Augmented Reality** (all genders welcome)

This is a full-time position. Whether the position will be implemented in compliance with the provisions of Art. 98 Austrian Universities Act (open-ended) or Art. 99 of the Austrian Universities Act (limited to 5 years) will be decided in the course of the appointment procedure.

The University of Klagenfurt is a young, vibrant, and innovative university, located at the intersection of Alpine and Mediterranean culture in an area that offers an exceptionally high quality of life. As a public university pursuant to Art. 6 of the Austrian Universities Act, it receives federal funding. The Times Higher Education (THE) Young University Rankings 2021 ranked it among the 50 best young universities in the world. The university operates under the motto “Beyond Boundaries”.

In accordance with its key strategic road map, the development plan, the university’s primary guiding principles and objectives include the pursuit of scientific excellence regarding the appointment of professors, favourable research conditions, a good faculty-student ratio, and the promotion of the development of young scientists.

The professor will be involved in teaching in a variety of degree programmes, including the Bachelor’s programmes “Applied Informatics” and “Robotics and Artificial Intelligence”, and the international Master’s programmes “Informatics” and “Game Studies and Engineering”.

**Area of responsibility**:
The **duties**of the position include:

- Representing the field of Virtual and Augmented Reality in research and teaching
- Acquiring and managing competitive research funding
- Collaborating with colleagues across the university and with industry partners
- Teaching in relevant Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral programmes
- Advising and mentoring students and early career researchers
- Contributing to the long-term development of the department and its international standing
- Advancing the department’s and faculty’s research priorities, with a commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration
- Contributing to university governance and academic self-administration
- Engaging in third mission activities and public outreach

**Requirements**:

- Habilitation or equivalent qualification in a relevant field
- Excellent research standing and publication record in Virtual and/or Augmented Reality, including theoretical and technical foundations
- Experience in the acquisition of competitive third-party funded research projects of a relevant volume
- Teaching experience at university level and didactic competence
- Experience in the (co-)supervision of academic theses
- Collaboration and social skills
- Fluency in English

**Desired skills**:

- Excellent scientific communication and dissemination skills
- Interdisciplinary experience
- Experience with academic management duties
- Competence in leadership and management of teams
- Competence in gender mainstreaming and diversity management
- Fluency in German

**Additional information**:

- one single PDF including:

- a letter of motivation
- a detailed scientific CV
- a comprehensive list of publications, talks, and courses taught
- a list of acquired third-party funded research projects, including role, funding organization, and amount of funding (in case of funding acquired within a consortium, please specify the amount attributed to you)
- a compact research statement of up to two pages
- supplementary documents, where applicable (e.g., course evaluations)
- links to publicly available versions of your three most important publications within the scope of this professorship