mdw PostDoc Fellowship

Application Deadline: 20.5.2024

For the second time in 2024, the mdw offers postdoc fellowships aimed at supporting early-stage researchers after the completion of their doctorate studies. The fellowship is part of a set of measures taken to implement the mdw’s Research Strategy.

The fellowships (prospectively 2 positions) are open to early-stage researchers from all disciplines who plan on submitting a proposal to the ESPRIT programme of the FWF or other post-doc funding programmes*, or who plan on re-submitting a proposal that has been evaluated, for example, as “approved-but-not-funded”.

The funding decision will be made by an interdisciplinary jury (mdw internal and external). Successful candidates will be able to start their post-doc fellowship positions by the end of 2024 at the latest.


Eligible to apply:

Post-docs within the first 4 years after completion of their doctorate studies without habilitation, either with a degree from the mdw and/or a contractual relationship (employment contract “Arbeitsvertrag” or freelance service contract “freier Dienstvertrag” or “Werkvertrag”) with the mdw in the last 2 years prior to application.


Selection criteria:

•    Excellent academic qualifications (according to the respective discipline and career level, evidenced e.g. by publications)
•    Quality of the planned project (based on the assessment criteria of the respective funding programme)
•    Feasibility of the project within the respective funding programme

The funding decision for the post-doc fellowships of the mdw is made in view of the probability of a successful future submission. Applicants are encouraged to address deadlines and requirements of the respective funding programme in the application form and to disclose relevant information.


Contract:

Temporary employment (3 to 6 months) according to collective agreement.

Employment: Part-time. Personnel costs up to a maximum of € 15,000 (including the employer’s social security contribution/“Dienstgeberanteil”) per position are funded. The scope of employment will be agreed on accordingly.

Minimum wage: According to the collective agreement, the gross monthly salary is individually determined on the basis of the classification in salary group B1/3 and the agreed scope of employment. The minimum monthly salary for full employment (100%) is € 4.752,30 gross.


Submission of applications:

The submission is open until 20 May 2024. Applications (form incl. attachments) are to be sent with the subject “PostDoc Fellowship” to the Research Support Office (forschungsfoerderung@mdw.ac.at).

As an employer, mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna pays attention to equal treatment of all qualified applicants regardless of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, ideology, age, or disability.

The University aims to increase the proportion of women among academic, artistic, and general university staff, especially in management positions, and therefore explicitly invites qualified women to apply. If there are several applicants with the same qualifications, women will be given preference.

Applicants are not entitled to compensation for travel and accommodation expenses incurred on the occasion of the admission procedure.


Reporting:

Post-doc fellows are asked to submit a short report of activities and documentation of the submitted external funding proposal or a status report of the planned submission to the Research Support Office within 2 months after the end of the fellowship. If the proposal for third party funding is submitted later (in justified cases), this documentation has to be handed in subsequently.


Further information:

The fellows are employed at the respective Department/Research Center.
Double funding is no permitted. Material and travel costs cannot be covered within the fellowships, however, fellows may submit separate applications to have such costs reimbursed (e.g. Start-up financing for project proposals or International Mobility for Early-Stage Researchers), if applicable.

Applicants are recommended to consult with the Research Support Office in advance (Vitali Bodnar, project service/consultation for third party funding applications, bodnar@mdw.ac.at).

For further information concerning the call for proposals, please contact forschungsfoerderung@mdw.ac.at.

 

*Submission in the following programmes are supported in particular:
•    ESPRIT Career Advancement for Postdocs of the FWF
•    Erwin-Schrödinger fellowships of the FWF
•    ERC Starting Grant
•    MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships
•    Other comparable funding programmes

 

PostDoc Fellowship 2024

Jury


PostDoc Fellowship 2023

"The mdw Greets its First Two Postdoctoral Fellows", Report in mdw-Webmagazin


Fellows

  • Dr.in Henrike Rost: A look behind the scenes: The music critic Max Kalbeck in Vienna at the turn of the century, Department of Musicology and Performance Studies
  • Raz Weiner, PhD: The Pink-Washout: digital Queer Performance's Renogotiation of Citizenship in the Post-Liberal State, Department of Cultural Management and Gender Studies


Jury

The selection of the mdw PostDoc fellows is made by an interdisciplinary jury consisting of mdw-internal and external persons:

  • Univ.-Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Urbanek, chair of musicology and dean of research programmes at mdw
  • Assoc.-Prof. Dr.in Dagmar Abfalter, MBA, associate professor at the Department of Cultural Management and Gender Studies (IKM), deputy dean of research programmes at mdw
  • David Weigl, PhD, project lead Signature Sound Vienna at mdw
  • Dr.in Andrea B. Braidt, head of study programme Theatre, Film and Media Studies at University of Vienna
  • Dr.in Kerstin Klenke, director of the Phonogrammarchiv at the ÖAW Austrian Academy of Sciences

 

 

 

Research Support

Leonie Huber, MA

Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1
1030 Wien
1. Stock, Raum B 01 23
Tel. +43 1 711 55-6100

forschungsfoerderung@mdw.ac.at