{"id":11974,"date":"2026-10-30T11:42:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T10:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leibniz-hbi.de\/?post_type=hbi-news&#038;p=11974"},"modified":"2026-10-30T15:04:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T14:04:05","slug":"professorship-w3-for-informatics-with-a-focus-on-societal-communication","status":"publish","type":"hbi-news","link":"https:\/\/leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/hbi-news\/job-offer\/professorship-w3-for-informatics-with-a-focus-on-societal-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"Professorship (W3) for Informatics with a Focus on Societal Communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/leibniz-hbi.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Logo-der-Universitaet-Hamburg.gif\" alt=\"University of Hamburg logo\" width=\"253\" height=\"114\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11951 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/leibniz-hbi.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Logo-HBI-de-300x91.png\" alt=\"Logo of the HBI\" width=\"300\" height=\"91\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leibniz-hbi.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Logo-HBI-de-300x91.png 300w, https:\/\/leibniz-hbi.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Logo-HBI-de-768x233.png 768w, https:\/\/leibniz-hbi.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Logo-HBI-de.png 1004w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI) and the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics, and Natural Sciences at the University of Hamburg are seeking to fill the following position <b>effective January 1, 2028<\/b>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>W3 University Professorship for Informatics with a Focus on Societal Communication<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Application Deadline<\/strong>: December 10, 2026<\/p>\n<p>The advertised position is a <b>joint professorship between the University of Hamburg and the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI)<\/b>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Research at the HBI currently comprises two pillars: the field of communication studies and the field of law. This research will expand with the addition of a professorship in informatics, which will primarily address issues of social communication. This professorship has been assigned to <a href=\"https:\/\/leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/research\/program-areas\/pa2\/\">Program Area 2<\/a> (Communication Structures and Their Governance) at the HBI. The HBI is open to various subfields of computer science &#8211; such as web science, socioinformatics, natural language processing, algorithmic fairness and accountability, sociotechnical system modeling, and network science. However, digital communication processes and public information infrastructures must be at the center of the research focus.<\/p>\n<p>At the university, the professorship is based in the Department of Informatics.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uni-hamburg.de\/en\/stellenangebote\/ausschreibung.html?jobID=5fff060483f543364aa930e481f5ae219f1de410\">Job Posting<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/leibniz-hbi.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Professorship-W3-for-Informatics-with-a-Focus-on-Societal-Communication.pdf\">Job Posting (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Image: UHH\/Esfandiari<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":11967,"template":"","categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11974","hbi-news","type-hbi-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-job-offer"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.8 (Yoast SEO v28.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Professorship (W3) for Informatics with a Focus on Societal Communication - 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