The University of Vienna is internationally renowned for its excellence in teaching and research, and counts more than 7,500 academics from all disciplines. This breadth of expertise offers unique opportunities to address the complex challenges of modern society, to develop comprehensive new approaches, and educate the problem-solvers of tomorrow from a multidisciplinary perspective.

At the Faculty of Law at the University of Vienna seeks to appoint a

Tenure-Track Professor in the field of Criminology

The position

Successful applicants are expected to cover and represent the full breadth of criminology in their research and teaching. Excellent empirical methodological skills in both quantitative and qualitative areas are required. An interdisciplinary focus with a strong anchoring in a social science reference discipline (e.g. sociology of law, legal psychology) is particularly desirable. Successful applicants will have a doctorate in law and a good knowledge of Austrian criminal law and criminal procedure law, as evidenced by their teaching and publication activities in this area, in order to continue the traditionally close interdisciplinary cooperation within the institute. A network with the practice of the Austrian security and justice sector is an advantage.

As the largest university in Austria, the University of Vienna offers a broad framework for research and teaching. Cooperation with and knowledge transfer between scientists, e.g. at the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Vienna, enable interdisciplinary criminological research and teaching of outstanding importance for science and practice. The University of Vienna thus offers an excellent research environment for interdisciplinary criminological research. The Vienna School of Criminology is characterised by the close connection between normative criminal law, empirical criminology and scientific criminology. In the sense of a comprehensive criminology, this enables the treatment of criminal law from a normative and empirical perspective, which is unique in Austria. The research environment is also characterised by the possibility of cooperation with the interdisciplinary research units ALES-Austrian Center for Law Enforcement Sciences (Research Unit for Police and Justice Sciences), the Research Unit for Legal Psychology and the Centre for Economic and Financial Criminal Law.

https://strafrecht.univie.ac.at

Your academic profile:

• Doctoral degree/PhD
• Two years of international research experience during or after doctoral studies
• Outstanding research achievements, excellent publication and funding record, international reputation
• Gender and diversity competence
• Experience in designing of and participating in research projects, ability to lead research groups and acquire third-party funding
• Enthusiasm for excellent teaching and supervision at the bachelor's, master's, and doctoral level

We expect the successful candidate to acquire, within three years, proficiency in German sufficient for teaching in bachelor's programmes and for participation in university committees.

We offer:

• the opportunity to obtain a permanent position and eventual promotion to full professor; the initial contract as Assistant Professor is limited to six years, after positive evaluation of a qualification agreement the contract becomes permanent as Associate Professor; Associate Professors can be promoted to Full Professor through an internal competitive procedure.
• a dynamic research environment
• a wide range of research and teaching support services
• attractive working conditions in a city with a high quality of life
• an attractive salary according to the Collective Bargaining Agreement for University Staff (level A2) and an organisational retirement plan

Application documents(in English):

1. Letter of motivation
2. Academic curriculum vitae
   • education and training (PhD Certificate, PDF)
   • positions held to date
   • career breaks (e.g. relevant parental, family or other care periods)
   • awards and honors
   • commissions of trust
   • previous and current cooperation partners
   • complete list of acquired third-party funding and, if applicable, of inventions/patents
   • list of most important scientific talks (max. 10)
   • teaching and mentoring
   • supervision experience (Master and PhD), if applicable
3. List of publications
   • link to your own publicly accessible ORCID record, with a complete and current publication list
   • three key publications as electronic full text version (PDF, max 30 MB)
4. Research statement
   • most important research achievements (max. 2 pages) and planned future research activities (max. 4 pages)
   • synopsis of three key publications with relevance to the position advertised
   • publication strategy
5. Teaching and supervision statement
   • teaching and supervision concept, including a description of the previous and planned priorities in academic teaching and supervision (max. 2 pages)
   • teaching evaluations (if available, PDF)

If you have any questions, please contact:

tenuretrack.personal@univie.ac.at
Only applications submitted through the link "Apply now" below will be considered.

We look forward to new personalities in our team! 
The University of Vienna has an anti-discriminatory employment policy and attaches great importance to equal opportunities, the advancement of women and diversity. We lay special emphasis on increasing the number of women in senior and in academic positions among the academic and general university staff and therefore expressly encourage qualified women to apply. Given equal qualifications, preference will be given to female candidates.

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​Application deadline: 01/10/2025
Reference no.: 3220