PhD Opportunities in Business in Austria

The Department of Economics at the University of Graz is inviting applications for a four-year University Assistant position without a PhD, designed for an economics graduate intending to pursue doctoral research. The successful candidate will develop research and write a dissertation in environmental economics , with related work in microeconomics and game theory . The role offers the opportunity to work in a research environment alongside leading scholars, including Univ.-Prof. Dr. Michael Fin...

WU Vienna’s Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law is offering a funded four-year Teaching and Research Associate position designed for doctoral study in tax law. The successful candidate will develop an independent dissertation and contribute to research publications in Austrian and international tax law. The role also combines doctoral research with teaching responsibilities, providing an opportunity to work within one of the world’s largest tax law institutes. Based in Vienna, Austr...

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...

WU Vienna (Vienna University of Economics and Business) is advertising a PhD position in the Institute for Data, Energy, and Sustainability (IDEaS), supported by the BMIMI Endowed Professorship for Data-Driven Knowledge Generation: Climate Action. The project sits at the intersection of energy technologies , energy infrastructure , data science , and computational methods . The research focus is on why energy technologies and infrastructure succeed or stall, and how technology, firms, investors,...

WU Vienna University of Economics and Business is advertising a PhD opportunity in Marketing through a Teaching and Research Associate role in Vienna, Austria. The position focuses on Marketing and Customer Analytics , with research themes including quantitative marketing , applied economics , customer value management , customer-base analysis , and the use of generative AI for marketing decision support . The post also mentions collaboration with international researchers and contribution to re...

Fully funded PhD position in deformable and breakable particle mechanics in DEM at the CHASE Competence Center , Vienna site, Austria. This opportunity sits in the Fluid Dynamics team and is aimed at candidates interested in particle mechanics , discrete element method (DEM) , fluid dynamics , and computational modeling. The project appears well suited to students with a strong background in mechanical engineering , physics , chemical engineering , process engineering , or related fields. Eligib...