Nomination sought for the position of Director at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems

The MPI for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart and Tübingen expects to have an opening for one director and scientific member of the Max Planck Society (MPG) in each site. The Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems combines – within one center – theory, software, and hardware expertise in the research field of intelligent systems. The opening for the Tübingen campus of the institute relates to areas like machine learning, including modern robotics, and natural language understanding. Research at the Stuttgart campus of the institute relates to small-scale robotics, self-organization, haptic perception, bio-inspired systems, medical robotics, and robotic materials.

Max Planck Directors are international leaders in their respective field, pursue an ambitious research agenda within their departments, and lead the institute jointly with their director colleagues. Directors enjoy academic freedom and benefit from a diverse, international, excellent research environment, outstanding infrastructure, and long-term scientific funding. The MPG is committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion in its recruiting efforts, and is particularly interested in appointing excellent woman scientists. Please send nominations of suitable candidates, including rising stars, to the institute’s Managing Director at eva.laemmerhirt@tuebingen.mpg.de. All nominations will be treated confidentially.