Hannes Leitgeb, a logician at the University of Salzburg, has accepted a Readership at the University of Bristol in the U.K.
Oxford logician Volker Halbach, who notified me of this move--and who himself moved from Konstanz to Oxford last year--observed that, "You recently claimed that no other country has suffered a brain drain like the United Kingdom. But the number of philosophers leaving the German-speaking countries is also amazing."
UPDATE: Professor Leitgeb writes: "Concerning your post on my moving to Bristol and on the question of brain drain: I would like to add that I have turned down an offer from Stanford to have a tenure-track position as an Associate Professor with early possibilities for tenure. I agree with Volker Halbach that the brain drain in Germany and Austria is already dramatic. It is interesting to observe that many young philosophers from the German-speaking world are currently attracted by the UK rather than by the US."
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