12 ISTplus Postdoctoral Positions for International Applicants

The Institute of Science and Technology Austria is inviting applications for up
to 12 ISTplus Postdocs Positions in Austria. Applicants from all around the
world are eligible to apply for these positions.

The ISTplus postdoc
program is funded through the Marie Sk?Sklodowska-Curie Actions, a type of
co-funding for regional, national and international programs that finance
fellowships involving mobility to or from another country.

The Institute of
Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria) is a young international institute
dedicated to basic research and graduate educ
ation in the natural and
mathematical sciences, located in Klosterneuburg on the outskirts of Vienna.

Course
Level: Positions
are available to pursue Postdoctoral programme.

Study
Subject:
ISTplus is a coherently integrated program with strong monitoring, evaluation,
and follow-up. It offers two-year fellowships for highly qualified, incoming
postdocs with the following features:

Open,
bottom-up international recruiting process
Truly
interdisciplinary research options
Targeted
Competence Building program
Secondment
scheme with an intersectoral network of partners

Scholarship
Award:
Applications to the ISTplus program are welcome from all scientific fields
currently represented at IST Austria. ISTplus fellows will receive two-year,
full-time employment contracts with an internationally competitive salary and
full social security coverage. Fellows will have access to career counseling
and opportunities to take paid “intersectoral” internships with partners from
non-academic institutions in the industry and the public sector.

Number of
Scholarships:
Approximately 12 per call.

Scholarship
can be taken in Austria

Eligibility: The following criteria must
be met in order for applicants to be eligible for the scholarship:

Applicants
must fulfil the Marie Curie mobility requirements in order to be selected.
Applicants must either be relocating to Austria. Candidates already
located in Austria are only eligible if they have been in Austria for a
total of fewer than 12 months during the 3 years previous to the deadline
of the respective Call.
You
must have formally completed all requirements of your PhD and provide a
copy of your diploma prior to the start of your employment (which cannot
be later than 5 months after the fellowship offer is issued).
Your
proposed research must match with the research carried out on campus.
Postdocs
who are already employed at IST Austria are not eligible to apply.
All
applications must include the ethics self-assessment form to be considered
eligible.
For
additional requirements related specifically to the requirements of the
application please carefully review the Guide for Applicants.

Nationality:
Applicants
from all around the world are eligible to apply for these positions.

College
Admission Requirement

Entrance
Requirements: Applicants must have their previous degree.

English Language
Requirements: The official language of the institute is English. In order to
help fellows integrate into the host country, IST offers German-language
courses on campus.

How to
Apply: All
application documents, including reference letters, must be submitted no later
than 23:59 on the application deadline (March 15th or September 15th).
All applications which are incomplete at the application deadline will be
considered ineligible and no exceptions will be made for providing reference
letters or other application materials after the deadline.

This is the section
for uploading documents. For your application to be considered complete and
eligible you must upload the following:

Career
motivation letter
CV
Research
statement/proposal (preferably 2-3 pages)
Completed
Ethical Issues Table (available here).
The
ethical issues table must be fully completed. If it is determined that you
have uploaded an incomplete ethical issues table, you will be asked to
re-submit a completed table, provided your application was otherwise
complete and submitted by the deadline. *All documents must be in pdf
format.