Tenure-Track Professorship in Earth System Sciences

Universität Wien

Job description:

The University of Vienna is internationally renowned for its excellence in teaching and research, and counts more than 7,500 academics from all disciplines. This breadth of expertise offers unique opportunities to address the complex challenges of modern society, to develop comprehensive new approaches, and educate the problem-solvers of tomorrow from a multidisciplinary perspective.

The Faculty of Earth Sciences, Geography and Astronomy at the University of Vienna invites applications for a

The position

We seek applicants for a Tenure Track Professorship in the general field of sedimentology related to the Earth System. The successful candidate will be an excellent, field-capable sedimentologist with a geologal background. Interests could include geological field-based methods and big data applications and machine learning methods. Research focus will be on feedback processes between erosion, sedimentation, tectonics and climate, and topics could include interplay of natural geological and anthropogenically influenced processes, or in balancing resource exploitation with sustainability in the context of a rapidly changing planet. The candidate will lead geological field courses as well as lecture courses in stratigraphy / evolution of the Earth System, and will be expected to collaborate across disciplines in the faculty, e.g. within environmental and climate change and paleoclimate working groups. The future professorship should contribute to the University‘s strategic priority “Climate, Environment, Sustainability”, and will be involved in applied resource and sustainability research across geoscientific departments at the University of Vienna and beyond. The ability to enter into a interdisciplinary dialogue with social sciences and humanities is considered advantageous.

The research in our faculty is diverse, integrative and interdisciplinary across a wide range of scales and geoscience disciplines. The department (https://geologie.univie.ac.at/en/) researches structural geology (macro-, micro- scale, tectonics, salt tectonics), geoenergy and applied research, seismic interpretation, stratigraphy, anthropogenic processes and products, clay mineral processes and products, glacial geology and carbonate sedimentology. Laboratory facilities encompass sediment labs and several core facilities for electron beam measurement techniques and with solid-state mass spectroscopy, isotope geochemistry labs, X-ray diffraction and mineral spectroscopy are available within the faculty, and the successful candidate would also have access to high performance computing facilities. The faculty runs the Vienna International School of Earth and Space Science (VISESS), a well-recognized doctoral school providing a platform for interdisciplinary research, transferable skills, and doctoral education.

https://geologie.univie.ac.at/en/

Your academic profile:

• Doctoral degree/PhD
• Two years of international research experience during or after doctoral studies
• Outstanding research achievements, excellent publication and funding record, international reputation
• Gender and diversity competence
• Experience in designing of and participating in research projects, ability to lead research groups and acquire third-party funding
• Enthusiasm for excellent teaching and supervision at the bachelor's, master's, and doctoral level

We expect the successful candidate to acquire, within three years, proficiency in German sufficient for teaching in bachelor's programmes and for participation in university committees.

We offer:

• the opportunity to obtain a permanent position and eventual promotion to full professor; the initial contract as Assistant Professor is limited to six years, after positive evaluation of a qualification agreement the contract becomes permanent as Associate Professor; Associate Professors can be promoted to Full Professor through an internal competitive procedure.
• a dynamic research environment
• a wide range of research and teaching support services
• attractive working conditions in a city with a high quality of life
• an attractive salary according to the Collective Bargaining Agreement for University Staff (level A2) and an organisational retirement plan

Application documents (in English):

1. Letter of motivation
2. Academic curriculum vitae
   
   • education and training (PhD Certificate, PDF)
   • positions held to date
   • career breaks (e.g. relevant parental, family or other care periods)
   • awards and honors
   • commissions of trust
   • previous and current cooperation partners
   • complete list of acquired third-party funding and, if applicable, of inventions/patents
   • list of most important scientific talks (max. 10)
   • teaching and mentoring
   • supervision experience (Master and PhD), if applicable
   
   
3. List of publications
   
   • link to your own publicly accessible ORCID record, with a complete and current publication list
   • three key publications as electronic full text version (PDF, max 30 MB)
   
   
4. Research statement
   
   • most important research achievements (max. 2 pages) and planned future research activities (max. 4 pages)
   • synopsis of three key publications with relevance to the position advertised
   • publication strategy
   
   
5. Teaching and supervision statement
   
   • teaching and supervision concept, including a description of the previous and planned priorities in academic teaching and supervision (max. 2 pages)
   • teaching evaluations (if available, PDF)
   
   

If you have any questions, please contact:

tenuretrack.personal@univie.ac.at
Only applications submitted through the link "Apply now" below will be considered.

We look forward to new personalities in our team! 
The University of Vienna has an anti-discriminatory employment policy and attaches great importance to equal opportunities, the advancement of women and diversity. We lay special emphasis on increasing the number of women in senior and in academic positions among the academic and general university staff and therefore expressly encourage qualified women to apply. Given equal qualifications, preference will be given to female candidates.

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​Application deadline: 09/17/2025
Reference no.: 4427

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