Your Tasks
- PhD in a field related to animal cognition.
- Prior experience working and publishing both bioacoustic and animal behaviour/cognition research.
- Prior experience training animals in a lab setting would be ideal.
- Comfortable handling animals. Prior experience, especially with small birds, would be ideal.
- Strong written and oral English.
- The candidate should be able to integrate into a multi-disciplinary research team.
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Your personal sphere of influence:
- Design and carry out your PhD research;
- Collaborate with colleagues and participate in department seminars and research activities;
- Present your research at national and international conferences, meetings, and symposia;
- Teach courses independently within the scope of the provisions of the collective bargaining agreement;
- Contribute to the organisation of department activities and processes.
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Your personal scope of action:
- Renowned management programs: e.g. M.Sc. in Business
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Your personal sphere of play:
The Wanninger Lab is hiring a Postdoc in Invertebrate Evolution with a focus on either comparative morphology, EvoDevo, or phylogenomics. We are a dynamic, international group situated in the recently built University of Vienna Biology Building (UBB) with new labs to perform top-notch molecular, morphological, and -omics related research. Additional infrastructure includes animal care facilities to maintain and rear aquatic and terrestrial animals as well as access to sequencing facilities, high-end computer clusters, and an imaging and electron microscopy core facility.
Research in our group covers diverse invertebrate lineages, with particular strengths in spiralian taxa. The successful candidate is expected to work on mollusks, a core target taxon of our lab for which a wide range of molecular resources and established lab protocols are available. Previous experience with these animals is not required, but candidates should have a strong interest in working with little-investigated, aquatic, non-model invertebrate animals.
The position offers substantial intellectual freedom for developing an independent research profile within the lab’s broader focus. Projects may address questions in evolutionary developmental biology, morphological evolution, comparative genomics, or other related topics, depending on the candidate’s interests. The postdoc will work within an active research group and will have opportunities for collaboration with current team members on ongoing and emerging projects.
The position is available immediately. While we aim for a start date at around May 1st, 2026, this is somewhat flexible and can be negotiated with the PI. The position is fully funded for six years.
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Your personal sphere of play:
- You will work extensively with analytical techniques such as NMR and MS and contribute to our fragment-based drug design efforts, integrating structural, thermodynamic, and biophysical insights directly into your synthetic strategy.
- You will also engage with chemical and biological databases as part of compound design and evaluation.
- Cacterize protein ligand complexes
- You participate in evaluation measures and in quality assurance.
- You take on administrative tasks in research, teaching and administration.
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About the team:
- You are involved in a curiosity-driven research project in the field of electronic structure theory and ultrafast quantum dynamics.
- You will present your research plan to the faculty and complete a dissertation agreement within 12-18 months. This will be reviewed and adapted on an annual basis.
- You will work on your dissertation and towards its completion in time. We expect a large degree of independence paired with a high level of social awareness as the goal will only be achieved in a team.
- You will contribute to teaching (exercise classes) within the provisions of the collective bargaining agreement.
- You will fill some administrative tasks, contributing to the success and self-organization of the group for research, teaching and administration.
- You will continuously stay informed about the state of the art in your field.
- You will contribute to outreach by publications, conference presentations and public activities.
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Your personal sphere of influence:
- Recording and sampling of archaeological material for scientific analysis (proteomics, ancient DNA, radiocarbon) from archaeological sites;
- Performing scientific analyses such as ZooMS and dating
- Traveling to the field, liaising with field-based teams of researchers in several different countries in Africa where the research will be based;
- Collaborating with colleagues in the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology on a range of applied projects incorporating aspects of archaeological science, proteomics, genetics and dating;
- Writing and preparing scientific reports and journal articles and present conference papers and posters;
- Representing the group at external meetings/seminars, either with other members of the group or alone
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About the team:
- You are involved in a curiosity-driven research project in the field of machine learning in computational materials science.
- You will present your research plan to the faculty and complete a dissertation agreement within 12-18 months. This will be reviewed and adapted on an annual basis.
- You will work on your dissertation and towards its completion in time. We expect a large degree of independence paired with a high level of social awareness as the goal will only be achieved in a team.
- You will contribute to teaching (exercise classes) within the provisions of the collective bargaining agreement.
- You will fill some administrative tasks, contributing to the success and self-organization of the group for research, teaching and administration.
- You will continuously stay informed about the state of the art in your field.
- You will contribute to outreach by publications, conference presentations and public activities.
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Your professional field of activity:
- Research:
o participation in research activities depending on the chosen project
o signing of a doctoral thesis agreement within 12 - 13 months
o becoming a member of the VSM and actively participating in its activities and its administration - International and Interdisciplinary Collabortion:
o willingness to participate in international and (depending on the project) interdisciplinary or applied research
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Your personal sphere of influence:
- You are involved in research projects and scientific studies in the field of Training Science (Head of working group: Dr. Robert Csapo).
- We expect you to finalize your dissertation agreement within 6 months.
- You work on your dissertation and its completion.
- You hold courses independently within the scope of the provisions of the collective bargaining agreement.
- You take on administrative tasks in research, teaching and administration.
- You contribute to publications and scientific articles.
- You participate in coordinating and managing academic events.
- Project application and (external) fundraising.
- Examination activities.
- You support students.
- You participate in evaluation activities and in quality assurance.
- You participate in administration of the department.
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Your professional field of activity:
- Collaboration and research in the field of partial differential equations with emphasis on geophysical aspects (oceanography, atmospheric flow):
o Development of own solutions as part of the research group of Prof. Constantin.
o Conclusion of a dissertation agreement within 12 - 18 month is expected.
o Membership in the Vienna School of Mathematics and active participation in its activities will be required. - Interdisciplinary colalboration:
o You participate in international scientific collaborations, as well as international conerences and workshops. - Collaboration in teaching and administration:
o You participate in the administration of the institute, teaching and research.
o You hold courses and examinations in accordance with the provisions of the collective bargaining agreement and you (co-)supervise students.
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