Job description

The Diginomics Research Group investigates the impact of digitalization on businesses and the economy. Now in its fourth cohort, the research group has investigated topics such as how individuals react to digitalization in their work, the transformation of business and operation models in increasingly digital markets, or different scenarios of the digitalization of currencies. As a collaborative research group of the Faculty of Business Studies and Economics, the group leverages the expertise and experience of its faculty, and facilitates research on subjects, which transcend traditional, disciplinary boundaries within business, and economics research. Specifically, for this cohort, the focus will be on the topic “Still made by humans? The ambivalence of automation and augmentation”. Digital technologies have the potential to automate organizational processes and tasks as well as to augment human behaviour. In doing so, they can substantially transform how organizations manage teams, innovate and market their products and services, and organize their information systems. Exemplary research questions include (i) individuals’ perceptions of and reactions to automation, (ii) automation’s transformational impact on work and innovation processes, and (iii) the outcomes of human–machine collaboration and the conditions shaping these relationships.

Please find below the job description for the role:

Academic services in teaching, with a total of 3 SWS, encompass the imparting of specialist knowledge and practical skills, as well as instruction in the application of scientific methods. This is applicable to both the Bachelor's and Master's degree programs, within the scope of the applicable LVNV. The scope of teaching export includes subject-specific teaching for other teaching units.

Additionally:

• Academic services in research, including collaboration on research 

• If applicable, please include a description of your own scientific work, such as the preparation of a doctorate.

• Other university tasks, such as participation in academic self-administration,

• Active participation in the graduate group’s task (e.g., conference organization, organization tasks around brownbag seminars)

Requirements

• An above average university degree at the master level (normally, a total of 300 credit points including bachelor studies) in economics, business administration, information systems, psychology or a related subject.
  Applicants who are in the final phase of their master's degree program will also be considered. Please note that the master's degree certificate must be submitted in order to be hired.

  For higher education qualifications obtained outside the EU, please submit the German translation and the assessment of the Central Office for Foreign Education (ZAB). Alternatively, please send us a PDF excerpt from the database for the recognition and evaluation of foreign educational certificates (ANABIN).

  For professional qualifications obtained outside Germany, please send the German translation and the recognition in Germany. Information on this can be found at the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB).

• Confident command of the /English/  language in spoken and written form (CEF level C2, minimum C1)
• German skills are a plus.
• Skills in quantitative or qualitative empirical methods and software packages (e.g., Python, Stata, Matlab, R, MAXQDA)
• Communication skills, team orientation, independent working style and scientific curiosity. 

General Information

Open to unconventional approaches in research and teaching, the University of Bremen has retained its character as a place of short distances for people and ideas since its founding in 1971. With a broad spectrum of subjects, we combine exceptional performance and innovative potential. As an ambitious research university, we stand for research-based learning approaches and a pronounced interdisciplinary orientation. We actively pursue scientific cooperation in a spirit of global partnership.

Today, around 23,000 people learn, teach, research, and work on our international campus. In research and teaching, administration and operations, we are strongly committed to the goals of sustainability, climate justice, and climate neutrality. Our Bremen spirit is expressed in the courage to try new things, in supportive cooperation, in respect and appreciation for each other. With our study and research profile and as part of the European YUFE network, we assume social responsibility in the region, in Europe, and in the world.

What we offer:

• Acquisition of a solid knowledge in theoretical, empirical, and experimental methods as part of a research group and self-reliant implementation of research projects in the above-mentioned research topics in connection with a doctorate.
• Training as a data steward and/or data operator at the Data Science Center of the University of Bremen (/en/data-science-center), if desired
• Conducting research on the above-mentioned overall topic, and publishing results in high quality peer-reviewed journals 
• Extensive support for scientific research through (inter)national networking (e.g., international conferences and cooperation opportunities) and qualification.
• Possibility to stay abroad as a visiting scholar at our world class partner universities.
• Fair pay according to EG 13 TV-L
• Annual special payment (“Christmas bonus”), regular collectively agreed salary increases and additional public service pension scheme (VBL)
• A crisis-proof, interesting and varied job in a cosmopolitan university
• 30 days of vacation per calendar year (with a 5-day week)
• A diverse, future-oriented and open culture
• The opportunity for further and advanced training
• Compatibility of family and career through flexible working hours (flexitime) and the option of mobile working (subject to the general conditions)
• Free social and family counseling services
• Active company health management, including the option of discounts at local sports clubs or for gyms and swimming pools (EGYM WELLPASS)
• The option of using a job ticket
• Numerous sports and cultural activities
• Varied catering options in the student union canteens.

 

The university is family-friendly, diverse and sees itself as an international university. We therefore welcome all applicants regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion/belief, disability, age, sexual orientation and identity.

International applications as well as applications of academics with a migration background are explicitly welcome.

Disabled applicants will be given priority if their professional and personal qualifications are essentially the same.

As the University of Bremen intends to increase the proportion of female employees in science, women are particularly encouraged to apply. In the case of equal qualifications, women are given priority, unless reasons relating to the person of a competitor prevail.

For general questions about the personnel selection procedure and for questions regarding the content of the advertised position, please contact Prof. Dr. Kristina Klein (phone: 0421-218-66970; E-Mail: kklein@uni-bremen.de)

In a cover letter, please describe your main research interests and academic background, and briefly explain how they connect to the overarching theme outlined above.

Please send your application with your complete documents (cover letter, curriculum vitae, qualification certificates, references) to the following address, quoting the reference number A038-26 until 03.04.2026 as a PDF file by unencrypted electronic mail to: Prof. Dr. Kristina Klein (E-Mail: kklein@uni-bremen.de) or by mail to:

Universit?t Bremen
Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft
Prof. Dr. Kristina Klein
Postfach 330 440
28334 Bremen

Please note that no photos are to be attached to the application documents.

We kindly ask you to send us only copies (no portfolios) of your application documents, as we cannot return them. They will be destroyed after the selection process has been completed. Any application costs cannot be reimbursed.