Since the summer semester 2004, he has obtained a professorship for Classical Philology and Papyrology at the Institute for Prehistoric Studies of the University of Cologne. 2000-2004: teaching position in Greek in Jena. He also helped to establish the project of a joint, Internet-based development of the papyrus collections of Jena-Halle-Leipzig, sponsored by the DFG (German Research Foundation). Member of the following committees: “Griechische christliche Schriftsteller” of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science and “Centro Internazionale per lo Studio dei Papiri Ercolanesi”, University of Naples. Joint publisher of the journal "Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik."

Ancient history of philosophy, ancient theory of poetry and rhetoric, ancient drama, papyrology, Herculaneum, Pagan and Christian literature from the imperial and the late classical periods

• in press: Jürgen Hammerstaedt: Artemidoro di Efeso nella tradizione indiretta e nel papiro di Torino [Art.]. In: Intorno al Papiro di Artemidoro - I. Lingua, stile e contesto culturale. Hg. von Claudio Gallazzi, Bärbel Kramer, Salvatore Settis. Mailand 2009.
• Jürgen Hammerstaedt, Martin F. Smith: The Inscription of Diogenes of Oinoanda. New Investigations and Discoveries (NF 137-141). Epigraphica Anatolica 40 (2007), S. 1-11.
• Jürgen Hammerstaedt, Martin F. Smith: Diogenes of Oinoanda: The discoveries of 2008 (NF 142-167). Epigraphica Anatolica 41 (2008), S. 1-37.
• Hans Rupprecht Goette, Jürgen Hammerstaedt: Das antike Athen. Ein literarischer Führer. München: Beck 2004.
• Jürgen Hammerstaedt (Hg.): De Magia. Apuleius. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2002.
• Jürgen Hammerstaedt (Hg.): Griechische Anarphorenfragmente aus Ägypten und Nubien. Opladen u.a.: Westdeutscher Verlag 1999.
• Jürgen Hammerstaedt: Die Orakelkritik des Kynikers Oenomaus. Frankfurt am Main: Athenäum 1988.