Industry
Research assistants or associates, who have successfully completed their master or PhD thesis at Fraunhofer FKIE, are typically highly attractive for industry due to their direct involvement in relevant high-tech applications. Those, who have an inclination to it, will get all possible support to launch their industrial career from Fraunhofer FKIE. There are highly encouraging examples...
Research
Fraunhofer FKIE typically offers temporally limited working contracts. Those post-doc researchers, however, who in addition to their scientific excellence, are successful in project acquisition as well and are able to create a research group around innovative topics, do have the perspective of a permanent position at Fraunhofer FKIE. Wolfgang Koch, who is writing these lines, can provide personal testimony that this is a very attractive perspective for passionate researchers who love seeing beautiful theory getting applied.
Accademia
Excellent researchers with academic ambitions will find that their time at Fraunhofer FKIE much improves their chances in the university world. In the last years, FKIE researchers were called to chairs at RWTH Aachen, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Universität Kassel and University of Maryland as well as at Fachhochschule Aachen and Fachhochschule Aalen. The "dream position" for a passionate researcher, however, is the combination of academic teaching with a position at Fraunhofer FKIE, where he or she "can move something"...