RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau, Campus Landau

Deadline: October 22, 2025

RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany, is pleased to announce an open position for a Professorship (W2) in Political Psychology, located at our Landau campus. We would appreciate if you could distribute this post via your mailing list and/or job offers at your website.

The successful candidate will represent the field of political psychology in research and teaching. Teaching duties will be based on the curricula of the Bachelor and Master programs in Psychology, Social and Communication Sciences, and Environmental Challenges and Human Responses. We expect a high level of willingness and ability to collaborate within the Institute for Communication Psychology and Media Educaction, the Department of Psychology, and the RPTU, and activities in the acquisition of joint projects. Furthermore, we expect the regular individual acquisition of third-party funding and participation in academic self-administration. In addition to the relevant academic qualifications, applicants are expected to have special didactic skills and experience in teaching.

We are looking for an internationally visible person with high potential for development, very good leadership qualities, and a particularly high level of connectivity to the Institute for Communication Psychology and Media Education, the Department of Psychology, the research network SCOPE (Societal COmmunication in times of PErmacrisis), and the RPTU. Examples of relevant topics include political attitudes and their measurement, political communication, conflict and cooperation, polarization in times of crisis, radicalization, conspiracy ideologies, populism, the role of digital media environments, and the supplementation of classic social science methods with computational approaches (computational social science). 

We look forward to receiving your detailed application with the documents listed at https://wiwi.rptu.de/en/bewerbung by 22. October 2025 at the latest. Please submit your application via the "Online Application" button below or via our application portal (https://jobs.rptu.de). Prof. Dr. Stephan Winter (stephan.winter@rptu.de) and Prof. Dr. Michaela Maier (michaela.maier@rptu.de) are available to answer your questions about the position, and you may contact Prof. Dr. Eunike Wetzel (eunike.wetzel@rptu.de) for formal questions concerning the application process. The job talks are expected to take place during the week of 17 November, 2025

The full job posting with further information can be found at the RPTU web page (please down scroll for the English version) https://jobs.rptu.de/jobposting/37d573b1fcfedc7671cfe2100288df1c29230e770