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

Mundus MAPP is an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s in Public Policy for the 2027–2029 cohort. The programme focuses on European and international public policy, governance, development and political economy. Students study across a consortium of partner universities in Austria, the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom, gaining an international and comparative perspective on public policy. The programme includes compulsory mobility across two countries and is designed for students interested in...

The University of Vienna is seeking a predoctoral university assistant for the Department of Political Science, within the research area Transformations of Democracy . The successful candidate will develop and complete a political science dissertation supervised by Associate Professor Fabio Wolkenstein. The research focuses particularly on democratic resilience and democratic regression . Possible topics include the institutional, party-political, and ideological conditions that support democrat...

The Medical University of Graz is recruiting a Senior Scientist PostDoc in Nursing and Health Sciences . This is a temporary, part-time postdoctoral research position at a leading Austrian medical university, offered under identification number I-PFLWIS-2026-003957 . The role sits within the university’s research environment in medical sciences and is aimed at a recognised researcher at R2 level. The posting is presented as a senior scientific appointment rather than a student project, and it is...

The IST-BRIDGE International Postdoctoral Program at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria offers a fully funded, two-year postdoctoral fellowship for highly qualified researchers. The program is designed for candidates who have completed, or will soon complete, a PhD or equivalent in the natural sciences, computer sciences, mathematics, or a related discipline. Hosted at ISTA in Austria, the fellowship is embedded in an international research environment and is paired with a flexible ...

The Institute for Outcomes Research at the Center for Medical Data Science, Medical University of Vienna, is seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher to contribute to research projects in medical data science and outcomes research. The role offers an opportunity to participate in interdisciplinary research, academic teaching, and the supervision of students. The research environment connects medical data science with outcomes research and welcomes expertise from fields including data science, medical i...

AIT Austrian Institute of Technology invites applications for master’s theses in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security at its Center for Digital Safety & Security in Vienna, Austria. The six- to eight-month opportunity is based in the Cyber Security & Communication Technologies Competence Unit and focuses on applied cybersecurity research. Potential topics include log-data analysis for intrusion detection, cyber threat intelligence processing, dynamic provisioning of co...

TU Wien is advertising a PhD position in Energy-Aware IoT Networks within the EU-funded IoT-ZERO project at the Institute of Telecommunications , Research Unit Wireless Communication. The project is coordinated by TU Wien and aims to enable Internet of Things devices to run on (close to) zero energy by combining energy harvesting, energy-aware networking, and operation across terrestrial and satellite systems. The position is a 30-hours/week project assistant (prae-doc) role, initially limited t...

AIT Austrian Institute of Technology is inviting applications for Master’s theses in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security at its Center for Digital Safety & Security in Vienna . The research environment covers cyber security , data science , machine learning , artificial intelligence , natural language processing , large language models , distributed IT systems, IoT, blockchain, quantum and photonic technologies, and digital solutions for crisis and disaster management...

AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH in Vienna, Austria is advertising a master’s thesis position in the Reliable Wireless Communication and Sensing research group at the Center for Digital Safety & Security. The thesis topic is “Differentiable Ray Tracing for Radio Propagation Modeling” . The project focuses on advancing differentiable ray tracing for realistic large-scale radio propagation, including either integrating atmospheric refraction models into the Sionna RT framework or learning...