After 12 years of working in the high-tech industry, I’m changing gears. I left my prior industry job and am starting today, September 1st, as the “professor for open source software” in the computer science department of the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Bavaria, Germany. This is a free (not tied to a chair) full (fully tenured) professorship. I’m looking forward to joining the department and collaborating with my new colleagues at the university, local industry, and beyond.
The professorship is well-funded and I’ll be seeking to hire Ph.D. students right away. For my research plans, please see the upcoming blog post. For now, I’ll let my favorite (ex-)Stanford comic strip do the talking. If you aren’t reading Ph.D. comics yet, check it out.
Congratulations and best of luck on your return to academia!
Drik,
Congratulations! Good luck on your new professorship.
Stewart
Congratulations; that’s great!
@Eugene @Stewart @Kat Thanks so much!
Congrats Dirk !
Thanks Amit! I hope you are doing well too!
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Glückwunsch! Coole Sache.
Gruß aus HK,
Fab
Hey Fabian, thanks!
Almost thought about applying to UHK though; great city! But nothing on this planet beats the benefits of being a German professor, to be honest. Not even the UC system if it still exists…
Cheers,
Dirk
Congratulations Dirk!
Wish you luck in your new position. I look forward to your now even greater freedom to publish interesting facts about open source and its adoption.
Kaj
Hey Kay, good to hear from you and thanks for the congrats! I hope I’ll make it to Boston soon again. –Dirk
Very Nice!! Congratulations to you Dirk!
Hopefully we will then see you more often at TUM, since we are now almost neighbors
Walid: Thanks! Yep, hope to be in Munich more often now too!