TUM-IAS offers a special fellowship that covers the financing of an assistant professor on a tenure-track position for selected outstanding early career scholars. The Host department should submit a proposal with the guarantee that once the candidate has completed his/her assistant professorship at TUM-IAS (typically after five years), a tenured position will be available at the Host department, which will be offered to the candidate following a strict peer-review in his/her fourth year. This fellowship is named after TUM Professor Hans Fischer (1881-1945) who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1930 for his pioneering work on haemoglobin and related structures.

The TUM-IAS awards up to two Hans Fischer Tenure Track Professorships each year. Besides the development of their chair, Fellows are expected to participate in TUM-IAS programs and events and organize activities such as a workshop, public talk, or speakers' series in order to contribute to the intellectual life of the Institute and the University. Even though the Hans Fischer Tenure Track Professorship is meant to provide ideal conditions for research and has no teaching requirement, we invite Fellows to offer courses and lectures. Hans Fischer Tenure Track Professors should benefit considerably from the interaction with the distinguished senior researchers at TUM-IAS.

The Hans Fischer Tenure Track Professorship consists of a salary according to the pay scale for assistant professors (W1) for up to five years, the funding of a research assistant (TV‑L E 13) for up to five years, 15,000 € p.a. research support, plus an initial endowment from the means of the Excellence Initiative (negotiable).

In addition, TUM-IAS Fellows have the opportunity to apply for flexible funding from the TUM-IAS for research Start-up support, e.g. large instruments, doctoral candidates, or additional staff for TUM-IAS Focus Groups (see p.14).

• The Dean of the concerned Faculty of TUM nominates the candidate and provides the application for the Hans Fischer Tenure Track Professor. The application should include a detailed description of the scientific and strategic goals of the planned professorship and the resources that the department will provide. Once the TUM-IAS support is granted, the university conducts a regular search in accordance with the rules of Bavaria. The TUM-IAS and the management of TUM endorse the use of headhunting strategies for specific extraordinary candidates. The management of TUM decides about the initial endowment out of the Excellence Initiative funding as part of the negotiations with the candidate.
• Applications may be submitted at any time. The TUM-IAS also accepts nominations more than one year in advance for the purpose of more flexible planning.