Join us!
There are many opportunities to work with our group at all levels – for both students and researchers. The general rule is: get in touch with us if you are excited by what we do.
You can find more information relevant to your academic level below.
Funded positions
We currently do not have any funded positions available unfortunately.
Fellowship positions
There is always the possibility to join our group as a postdoctoral researcher with an incoming grant:
- FWF Esprit fellowships (3yr independent postdoctoral fellowship, funded by Austrian FWF)
- Marie-Curie fellowships (2yr independent postdoctoral fellowship, EU funded)
- START prize grants (6yr starting grants for outstanding young researchers, Austrian FWF funded)
either through Austrian funding agencies (FWF/FFG) or European funding (Marie-Curie actions). There are also various possibilities to acquire funding in the country of your PhD to pursue a postdoc abroad, e.g.
- DFG Walter Benjamin program (up to 2yr for postdocs from Germany, funded by German DFG)
- SNF Postdoc.Mobility program (up to 2yr for postdocs from Switzerland, funded by Swiss SNF)
If you are considering any of these options, please get in touch, we can give tips and assist with the application process.
We currently do not have any funded PhD positions available unfortunately.
We have some open Master's projects (see below). For a Bachelor's project or a Master's project apart from the ones listed here, get in touch with us (you can find our contact details here, by clicking on any of our names). We are open to your ideas!
Open Master's projects:
Project 1: Magma ocean depletion
| Some of the rocky exoplanets orbit so close to their host star, that at least the planetary dayside is molten. With current instruments it is possible to investigate whether these planets have atmospheres or not, with some observations suggestiong the pressence of some atmospheres. Due to the proximity to the host star, these atmospheres are also likely to be subject to atmospheric loss. As a result the composition of the outgassed material might change over time. Within this project we will model this surface-atmosphere interaction and investigate a differential lemental depletion of the magma ocean planet. |
Contact person: Oliver Herbort oliver.herbort(at)univie.ac.at
Project 2: Automatic chemical network generation for exoplanet atmospheres
| Current atmosphere models rely on hand-made chemical reaction networks. This process inherently introduces human bias, which can influence the model results and misrepresent the stable chemical composition, temperature, and overall structure of an exoplanet's atmosphere. The project will aim to address this issue by using the Reaction Mechanism Generator (RMG) to partially automate network generation. This approach will allow the chemical networks to be dynamically created based on the specific composition of any given atmospheric model. You will validate this methodology by comparing your RMG-generated results against the fixed, manually-built network in The Kompot Code, which has been benchmarked against well-known cases (Earth and Venus). Prerequisites: Some programming skills (e.g., Python). Prior knowledge of chemistry is helpful, but not required. |
Contact person: Ivan Stanković ivan.stankovic(at)univie.ac.at