PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Astronomy in Austria

The University of Vienna is recruiting a postdoctoral University Assistant for the Department of Geology within the Faculty of Earth Sciences, Geography and Astronomy. The position focuses on the Late Paleozoic Glacial Period in southern Africa and combines paleoglaciology, geomorphology, field geology, GIS, photogrammetry and quantitative analysis. The researcher will investigate glacial landscapes and geological datasets through paleoglaciological field studies, photogrammetry, digital mapping...

The University of Vienna is seeking a postdoctoral researcher for the Star and Planet Formation group in the Department of Astrophysics. The project focuses on debris disk research, with related opportunities in the study of solar-system asteroids and the Kuiper Belt, exozodis, and dust and planetesimal dynamics in evolved protoplanetary disks. The successful researcher will strengthen theoretical studies and the interpretation of observations from cutting-edge observatories through simulations....

The University of Vienna is seeking a predoctoral researcher in geoecology to investigate the ecological functioning of wetlands. The doctoral project focuses on greenhouse gas exchange in the reed belt of Lake Neusiedl and the Pürgschachen Moor . The research will make use of the geoecology group’s existing eddy covariance infrastructure , including towers equipped with sensors for carbon dioxide, water vapor, and methane. The successful researcher will contribute to field-based environmental r...

The Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) is accepting applications to its 2027 interdisciplinary PhD program. The program welcomes highly qualified applicants interested in graduate-level scientific research across biology, chemistry, neuroscience, mathematics, computer science, physics, data science and scientific computing, astronomy, earth science, and related areas. Students join an international research environment built around ISTA’s research groups. During the first year of...

The Atomic and Plasma Physics Group at the Institute of Applied Physics at TU Wien is offering a fully funded PhD project in experimental ion-surface physics. The research investigates how singly and multiply charged solar-wind ions modify and sputter silicate and oxide mineral surfaces. These ion–surface interactions are central to understanding space weathering, the process through which exposed rocky surfaces are altered by the space environment. The PhD student will combine controlled ion-ir...

PhD project in agricultural polymer degradation and microplastics Environmental Geosciences (EDGE) at the University of Vienna is seeking a PhD researcher to investigate how agricultural polymers fragment into microplastics and nanoplastics in soil. The project addresses an important challenge in developing environmentally safe agricultural materials: although biodegradable polymers are designed to break down fully in the field, their degradation may pass through a temporary stage in which micro...

The University of Vienna is offering a four-year predoctoral position in the research group Quantum Information Science and Quantum Computation , led by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Philip Walther in the Faculty of Physics. The project focuses on experimental studies of quantum foundations and the development of scalable photonic quantum technologies. Research activities span quantum control of single photons using solid-state photon sources, integrated waveguide technology, tailored nonlinear media, superco...

The University of Vienna is offering a PhD position in Arctic energy budget diagnostics within the Climate Diagnostics research group at the Department of Meteorology and Geophysics. The group is led by Prof. Leopold Haimberger and Dr. Michael Mayer and works on coupled atmosphere–ocean–cryosphere energy-budget diagnostics and the quality and homogeneity of datasets used in climate reanalyses. The doctoral project will investigate detailed energy and moisture budgets to trace the sources of majo...

The Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) is offering fully funded PhD positions within a broad, interdisciplinary doctoral program spanning astronomy, biology, computer science, chemistry and materials, data science and scientific computing, earth science, mathematics, neuroscience, and physics. The opportunity is based at ISTA, a world-class research environment on the outskirts of Vienna. The posting is aimed at highly qualified candidates interested in joining the institute’s Ph...