Job ID: IKGA052DOC226
The Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia (IKGA) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), Austria’s leading non-university research and science institution, is offering a position
Praedoc (Diss) (f/m/x)
(part-time, 30 hours per week)
in the ERC project “The Narrative Foundations of Tibetan Buddhist Culture” (FOUNT) (ERC-2025-StG-101222259).
The successful candidate will contribute to the project by conducting research on the development of Tibetan Buddhist historiography on Tibet, especially concerning Emperor Srong-btsan and the deity Avalokiteśvara. The successful candidate will pursue a dissertation at the University of Vienna (internationally renowned for its strong track-record in South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies), while being integrated in a research institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Candidates already enrolled at another university may be considered provided that employment criteria of the OeAW can be fulfilled.
