Description

This tenure-track professorship focuses on analysing human capital formation from a broad international perspective using demographic methods and modelling. Human capital formation encompasses the demographic processes that determine the size, structure, and capabilities of populations, including education, fertility, migration, health, and mortality, all of which contribute to the renewal of populations across generations. While the position is open to all these areas of demography, we particularly welcome outstanding applicants whose research addresses migration and its interrelations with human capital formation. Applicants should be able to teach all the main areas of demography from an international perspective and demonstrate excellence in formal demography and demographic methods.

The Department of Demography (https://demografie.univie.ac.at/) at the University of Vienna was established in 2019 and comprises a team of faculty members who are involved in both research and teaching. The department is a pillar of the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (www.wittgensteincentre.org), which also includes researchers from the Vienna Institute of Demography (ÖAW) and the Population and Just Societies Programme at IIASA. The department of demography, a sub-unit of the Faculty of Social Sciences, aims at contributing to the faculty’s research priorities, and has developed collaborations also with other faculties, such as the Faculty of Earth Sciences, Geography and Astronomy and the Faculty of Psychology.

Requirements

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

Application Deadline: 22 April 2026

If you have any questions about the position or the application process, reach out to berufungsservice@univie.ac.at.