PhD position history of colour research

Tech­ni­sche Uni­ver­sität Ber­lin - Fac­ulty I - Insti­tute of Philo­sophy, His­tory of Lit­er­at­ure, Sci­ence, and Tech­no­logy

Research assist­ant - 0.65 work­ing time - salary grade E13 TV-L Ber­liner Hoch­schu­len

Work­ing field:

Research within the pro­ject (fun­ded by DFG) "The order of col­ours. Col­our sys­tems and col­our ref­er­ence tables in 18th cen­tury Europe". The suc­cess­ful applic­ant is expec­ted to develop a com­pre­hens­ive and con­tex­tu­al­ized pic­ture of European col­our ref­er­ence tables.
The pos­i­tion allows to work out a PhD thesis and, if suc­cess­ful, to obtain the PhD degree.

Require­ments:

  • suc­cess­fully com­pleted uni­versity degree (Mas­ter, Dip­lom or equi­val­ent) in His­tory of Sci­ence, Art His­tory or other fields that are rel­ev­ant for the pro­ject. Com­pet­ence in his­tor­ical research
  • lan­guage skills in Ger­man, Eng­lish, and another European lan­guage, prefer­ably French, Por­tugese or a south-east European lan­guage
  • com­pet­ence of both inde­pend­ent research and intense team­work within the strongly cooper­at­ive Pro­ject
  • exper­i­ence in His­tory of Sci­ence and His­tory of col­our research is an asset

How to ap­ply:


Please send your writ­ten applic­a­tion with the ref­er­ence num­ber and the usual doc­u­ments to Tech­nis­che Uni­versität Ber­lin - Der Präsid­ent - Fakultät I, Institut für Philosophie, Prof. Dr. Steinle, z.Hd. Frau Krampitz, Sekr. H 23, Straße des 17.Juni 135, 10623 Berlin. or by e-mail to nina.krampitz@tu-berlin.de.

To ensure equal oppor­tu­nit­ies bet­ween women and men, app­li­ca­ti­ons by women with the requi­red qua­li­fi­ca­ti­ons are expli­citly desi­red.
Qua­li­fied indi­vi­du­als with disa­bi­li­ties will be favo­red.

Please send cop­ies only. Ori­gi­nal docu­ments will not be retur­ned. The online version of this announcement can be found with the code I-155/17 on https://www.personalabteilung.tu-berlin.de/menue/jobs/stellenausschreibungen/