As far as you are concerned, your work cannot be accepted in current form but may be if you address the comments raised by the reviewers. (A good editor will make this explicit and expand on what they ...

In general, no. The previous work experience you can claim for a higher entry point on the scale needs to be relevant for the job for which you are applying. There are very general rules about this (...

This seems to be a common misconception: An MSc is not considered a graduate degree in Germany but the second part of an undergraduate study that prepares for the research-only PhD. As such, the ...

A shorter alternative to @Dirk's answer is "Erscheint in..." (literally, "to appear in..."). (Some journals also put manuscripts online as soon as they are edited or even accepted, but before they ...

This is one of the wrinkles of the federal structure of the German education (and research) system. Since the universities are run by the federal states, they are covered by the TV-L (Tarifvertrag für ...

A student visa is definitely wrong (and something you can't fix afterwards!) You need a visa for a long-term stay that allows you to earn money; this is usually called a "national visa type D". This ...

Since universities are governed by state law, it matters which state this is in. In general, you should be hired at Stufe 2 if you have been employed (i.e., not receiving a stipend or contracted to ...

If you want to be pedantic (and which mathematician doesn't?), the Duden (the traditional German dictionary) defines the base verb promovieren as a. die Doktorwürde erlangen, b. (über ein ...

First, the expression "außerordentlicher Professor" is no longer in current widespread use in Germany (although still understood; the exception is, as so often, Bavaria); a non-ordinary professor ...

My rule of thumb -- whether for Bachelor, Master, or PhD theses -- is to assume precisely the level of knowledge the student had when starting to work on this topic. (I.e., "How would you like to have ...

I've never heard of the custom of requiring the candidate to provide a list of references for a faculty position in Germany; the hiring process is very different from the US and UK. The procedure is ...

Speaking as a math professor in Germany, a suit is definitely not necessary, and might even be seen as overdoing it. (Caveat: things might be different in financial mathematics.) Most of my colleagues ...

To complement Bill Barth's answer, here's some concrete tips on how to move ahead in this case: First, you need to come to terms with the fact that a very likely outcome is that you do in fact have ...

Your question is based on a wrong premise: There was no funding specifically for research, because there was no research at medieval universities. Initially, they were created as "self-help" groups of ...

I think you have a few misconceptions about what a habilitation is. To answer your first question: Yes, you can apply for a habilitation as an external candidate; just like a doctorate, this ...

You should not take the term "transferring credits" so literally -- nothing is taken away from the (at that time) previous university. Instead, you are convincing the new university that you already ...

Postdoc salary (like for any non-tenured academic position) in Germany is fairly rigidly structured. The salary is always according to the federal wage agreement ("Tarifvertrag der Länder", TV-L) and ...

In general, the latin title of the degree conferred at a German university is of purely historical relevance (basically, indicating how the original four faculties of the middle ages split into the ...

The advice is the same as for any talk, only moreso: Think of your talk as an advertisement -- your goal is to get people interested enough so they will look up and read your paper (or, in this case, ...

Expanding a bit on my comment: To find out the net (and gross) salary for any position at a German university (from administrative assistants up to and including the base salary of a full professor), ...

Your question mentions both activities and job offers, for which the situation is slightly different. This answer is specific to Germany, and from the perspective of Mathematics. (The formal structure ...

In general, my advice would be look at other books or lecture notes and copy the things you like, change the things you don't; get feedback from your target audience; don't overthink it for your ...

Think "short book", not "long paper". There's been several questions here about the value of publishing a book (e.g., Is there any value in self-publishing a book as an academic? or Pros and cons of (...

As others have mentioned, planning the trajectory of your academic career past your PhD is very premature at this point. (After all, one of the jobs of your PhD advisor is precisely to help you with ...

Your job as a reviewer is primarily to give a summary of the results to help other researchers find the papers they are interested in; you are not expected to evaluate the quality of the manuscript. ...

Fomite already gave an excellent general answer, but I may be able to add some specific information if your submission was to one of the IEEE Transactions (rejection from which would put you in fine ...

The practice of cover letters predates the now common online submission systems by centuries: Before online submission, papers were submitted by sending a hard copy via postal mail to the editor-in-...

To expand on Dirk's comment: The status you see means that the reviewers have submitted their reports to the online system, and the handling editor has received an email about this. Now she has to ...

(This started out as a comment on JeffE's answer, but became too long, and I don't want to clutter his post.) This is a gross simplification, but what hiring committees care about is your future ...

Think of it not as acknowledging the site but of the community that contributes and curates the content. (From the way you asked the question, I think this is what you have in mind as well.) I'm sure ...