Information and Communication Technologies

The 15^th Vienna Research Groups for Young Investigators call 2024 is issued for up to three group leader positions as part of the WWTF’s Information and Communication Technology programme.

• It addresses Vienna-based universities and research institutions that intend to hire an excellent young researcher from abroad for setting-up and managing an independent research group. Active recruitment procedures are mandatory.
• The proposed field of research should contribute to fundamental scientific advancement in the area of AI/ML. A special emphasis of this call is to link AI theory with data and knowledge of other research fields.
• WWTF especially encourages Vienna-based research institutions to propose female group leaders.
• WWTF takes unconventional research careers into consideration.
• WWTF in total grants up to three positions with up to € 1.6 million per research group for six to eight years of funding. Please submit proposals online. 
• For more details please refer to the VRG 24 "Call Specifications" and the "Submission Guideline".

Submission deadline: 2pm CET, March 19^th 2024.

An online information session will take place on January 18^th 2024 from 10:00-12:00am CET on Zoom. Link to the session:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88333953868?pwd=T3BSelFGeHZ1YkJXQXRYMFJTRnlmdz09

Meeting-ID: 883 3395 3868

Kenncode: 451043

Please sign up for the session with one of the call managers.

Public announcements of Medical University of Vienna:

• www.meduniwien.ac.at/web/karriere/offene-stellen/
• https://www.nature.com/naturecareers/job/12810512/tenure-track-assistant-professor-for-ai-ml-research/

• https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/166215

Public announcements of University of Vienna:

• https://forschung.univie.ac.at/services/aktuelle-ausschreibungen/
• https://jobs.acm.org/job/tenure-track-professorship
• https://informatik.univie.ac.at/en/news-events/

Please do not hesitate to contact the call managers for more information:

Dr. Donia Lasinger, donia.lasinger@wwtf.at, Tel.: +43-1-402 31 43 - 16

Petra Steinkogler, petra.steinkogler@wwtf.at, Tel.: + 43 1 402 31 43 14