Principal Investigator Positions as Hector Endowed Fellows of the ELLIS Institute Tübingen

We are seeking new independent Principal Investigators to join our team of world-class researchers, with full academic freedom, no teaching and minimal service obligations. As a privately funded institute, the ELLIS Institute offers globally competitive packages alongside substantial research budgets covering personnel, equipment, and operating costs. We welcome applications from all areas of machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Positions are initially for six years and generally include an appointment as a Fellow or Scholar of the ELLIS Society.

They also offer the possibility of co-appointment as Independent Research Group Leader with the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS), one of Europe's leading AI research institutes, including additional research budget. A tenure-track option at MPI-IS exists. For outstanding senior candidates, the positions allow co-appointment as a professor at the University of Tübingen (this requires a separate application to the full professor call, deadline 15 November).

Both co-appointment options are part of the Tübingen AI Center, a joint research center of the University of Tübingen and the MPI-IS, supported by permanent government funding. Co-appointed Principal Investigators benefit from the extensive resources and vibrant intellectual environment of the Tübingen AI Center, which currently hosts seventeen full professors and is actively expanding.