Junior Professorship (W1) for Health Care Management

Institution: Faculty of Business Administration (Hamburg Business School)

Commencement of duties: as soon as possible

Application deadline: 2026-10-29

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Responsibilities

The Faculty of Business Administration (Hamburg Business School) is seeking a junior professor (W1) of Health Care Management. The junior professorship is funded by third-party grants from the project Evaluation of the Model Project on Genome Sequencing for Rare and Oncological Diseases (EGSOE), conducted at the Hamburg Center for Health Economics (HCHE) on behalf of the GKV-Spitzenverband. The professorship is based at the HCHE and contributes to the Faculty’s focus on health economics research.

Its responsibilities include:

• representing the field in research and teaching
• contributing to the University’s emerging field “Health Economics”
• participating in the associated evaluation of the Genome Sequencing Model Project (EGSOE)
• assuming responsibility for project implementation, including professional supervision of research assistants
• collaborating on research activities and securing third-party funding at the HCHE
• participating in teaching in the curriculum of the Faculty of Business Administration, particularly in the area of health care management, for 4 teaching hours per week during the initial phase of employment

Your profile

This junior professorship is aimed at early career researchers. Ideally, you will have an outstanding academic track record and research experience in at least two of the following fields:

• Health services research and evaluation of complex health care models
• Health economics (particularly behavioral and experimental economics, as well as preferences and decision-making in the health care context)
• comparisons of health systems and policy
• quantitative empirical methods (e.g., experimental designs, survey research, econometric methods)

Applicants are expected to:

• have an outstanding doctorate
• have publications in relevant, peer-reviewed journals
• have international research experience as well as a willingness to take on responsibility in an interdisciplinary collaborative project
• hold a doctorate completed less than 4 years prior (a standard period of 2 years per child granted for parental and care leave)

Ideally, you will also have:

• experience with the analysis of health insurance data, international health services research, or the evaluation of health care programs

Junior professorships will be appointed initially for a period of 3 years and, subsequent to a positive evaluation, extended for an additional 3 years.

University of Hamburg

The University of Hamburg strives to integrate gender equality, diversity, and a work/study-life balance into teaching and management. We also value diversity and encourage women, people with a disability, and those from diverse ethnic backgrounds to apply.

Severely disabled and disabled applicants with the same status will receive preference over equally qualified nondisabled applicants.

We offer our professors the opportunity to research and teach at the highest level. The University of Hamburg and the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg also provide:

Application and appointment procedure

Upload all supporting documents as a single PDF:

• cover letter
• CV
• publication list
• proof of teaching experience (e.g., as a list of courses)
• proof of experience and success with acquiring and conducting externally funded projects
• certificates and supporting documents
• 3 representative publications
• description of teaching and research plans
• evaluations, where available
• further documentation such as talks, posters, and important roles in organizations, where available

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Information on the academic search procedure is available at .

The appointment requirements and professorial duties are determined by the relevant regulations (particularly Sections 15, 18 and 12 subsection 7 Hamburg higher education act [Hamburgisches Hochschulgesetz]). Read more about .

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Contact

Prof. Dr. Jonas Schreyögg

Prof. Dr. Tom Stargardt

Location

Esplanade 36
20354 Hamburg

Reference number

JP 368