Full Professor Position for Games Engineering / Immersive Games at the HCI Group Würzburg

The HCI Group at Würzburg in Germany currently has an open full professor position:

http://www.hci.uni-wuerzburg.de

The professorship will be in the area of Games Engineering with a specific focus of immersive games. The HCI group starts a new games engineering program starting fall 2016 and the position is assigned to complement the existing staff and expertise of our group to run this program.

This is a tenured position at the W2 level with a base salary as described here:
https://www.lff.bayern.de/bezuege/besoldung/

Base salaries usually are complemented with a competetive bonus depending on the candidates qualification. Additional German civil service amenities apply.

Potential candidates will have to have a PhD in computer science or a comparable degree and should either habe a habilitation or have a good research record, preferably of at least two years after their PhD to qualify as a so-called habilitation equivalent. Teaching experience is desirable. 

Würzburg is a lovely city in the northern part of Bavaria in Germany. It is close to many regional and national cities like Frankfurt, Nürnberg, and Munich. The city’s climate is more on the sunny side, Würzburg has a long-standing tradition in wine production. It is a vibrant city due to a high percentage of young people and students which shape the picture and the social life of the city. More information can be found here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Würzburg

About the University:

https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/new/

The roots of the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg reach back as far as 1402. In that era, it was the sixth institution of higher education to be founded in the German-speaking regions of Europe, after the Universities of Prague, Vienna, Heidelberg, Cologne, and Erfurt. Today, Würzburg's University is counted among the medium-sized institutions of higher education in Germany. It comprises ten faculties with about 400 professors and 28,000 students.

Würzburg University is one of the leading institutions of higher education in Germany – this is verified by the rankings of domestic and international research organisations as well as international expert committees. On an international level, too, the University of Würzburg ranks in the top bracket of academic institutions in many scientific disciplines including biology, medicine, physics, and psychology.