Tenure-Track Professorship in Buddhist Studies

Univie; Wien; Vor Ort; EUR 70.000 - 90.000; Vollzeit

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PhD Certificate

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Zusammenfassung

The University of Vienna invites applications for an Assistant Professor position in Buddhist Studies. The research and teaching focus should include history of philosophy, religion, and literature, with primary Sanskrit sources and knowledge of Pali, Buddhist Chinese, or Classical Tibetan.

Collaboration with Tibetan Studies and related disciplines is expected. The Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies seeks candidates with strong publication records, international experience,

Qualifikationen

• 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.

Aufgaben

• Teach and supervise at bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral levels.
• Collaborate on research projects and participate in interdisciplinary work.
• Develop and pursue third-party funding opportunities.
• Engage with broader academic networks and contribute to the department’s research goals.

Kenntnisse

International research experience

Publication and funding record

Gender and diversity competence

Project design and leadership

Teaching and supervision at BA/MA/PhD

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The University of Vienna is internationally renowned for its excellence in teaching and research, and counts more than 7,500 academics from all disciplines. This breadth of expertise offers unique opportunities to address the complex challenges of modern society, to develop comprehensive new approaches, and educate the problem-solvers of tomorrow from a multidisciplinary perspective.

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The position

The research and teaching focus of candidates should be in one or more of the following areas of Buddhist Studies: history of philosophy, of religion, and of literature. Primary sources in Sanskrit must play a prominent role in both research and teaching. Candidates should further have command of at least one of the following languages of Buddhism namely Pali, Buddhist Chinese, Classical Tibetan. Readiness to cooperate especially with Tibetan Studies and ancient and modern South Asian Studies, as well as with other relevant disciplines of the University of Vienna is expected. Interdisciplinary work with the Cluster of Excellence EurAsian Transformations is also expected.

The Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies ranks among the largest university centres for the philological-cultural study of South Asia, Tibet, and Buddhism in the German-speaking world and is the home of several third-party funded research projects and the documentation center CIRDIS, and related to various research networks, such as the Cluster of Excellence EurAsian Transformations. Through cooperation with numerous academic institutions worldwide the Department is very well connected with the international scholarly community.

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

If you have any questions, please contact:

The University of Vienna has an anti-discriminatory employment policy and attaches great importance to equal opportunities, theadvancement of women and diversity . We lay special emphasis on increasing the number of women in senior and in academic positions among the academic and general university staff and therefore expressly encourage qualified women to apply. Given equal qualifications, preference will be given to female candidates.

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