University of Konstanz Postdoctoral Fellowships

The University of Konstanz (Universität Konstanz) is one of Germany's Universities of Excellence: It was successful in all three funding lines of the German Excellence Initiative and has also been competing successfully in both funding lines of its successor programme, the Excellence Strategy, since 2018.

The Zukunftskolleg is a central research institution of the University of Konstanz for early career researchers in the natural sciences, humanities and social sciences. It is an integral component of the university's strategy "creative.together". The Zukunftskolleg promotes interdisciplinary discourse between distinguished researchers from Germany and abroad, and provides them with the resources to conduct their research independently and free from administrative constraints. The working language is English.

The target group consists of excellent researchers at the early postdoctoral level, with leadership abilities and a capacity for teamwork, so that they can reasonably be expected to take up leading roles in academia. The applications are evaluated in a two-stage process by international reviewers.

Your responsibilities:

• Develop and implement your research project
• Build up your own research profile
• You are expected to participate actively in the regular weekly meetings and to contribute to the Zukunftskolleg in creating a team of exciting interdisciplinary postdoctoral researchers
• Have your place of residence in Konstanz and the surroundings

We Offer

• A professional infrastructure and an appropriate workplace for conducting research
• An individual Research Allowance
• Access to a pool for funding cooperative projects, research assistants, travel, and equipment purchases
• Funds for mutual research visits to international collaborators
• The possibility of attracting senior research partners to Konstanz through the senior fellowship and the mentorship program
• Double affiliation to both a university department and the Zukunftskolleg
• The opportunity to benefit from a variety of career development measures, including the University of Konstanz’s Academic Staff Development and Research Support offices
• No teaching obligation, but an opportunity to do so in collaboration with your department at the University of Konstanz
• An international and interdisciplinary community of peers.