Postdoctoral or Postgraduate Research Associate (Senior Scientist)

Reference Number: 172

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?: No

Offer Description

The Department of Landscape, Water and Infrastructure, Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and River Research, is currently seeking a Postdoctoral or Postgraduate Research Associate (Senior Scientist).

Extent of employment: 20 hours per week (with the option to increase through third-party funding)

Duration of employment: from 15th of October 2026, limited to 31st of March 2027 (with the option of a permanent extension)

Workplace: 1200 Vienna, BOKU Wasserbaulabor

Allocation in compliance with the Collective Agreement for University Staff to job group: B1 (without Doc.), B1 lit. b (with Doc.)

Gross monthly salary: (depending on previous eligible experience) at least (for 20h/week): without Doctorate € 1.888,10; with Doctorate € 2.507,20 (payable 14 times per year)

Responsibilities

• Management and Coordination of experiments in the BOKU River Lab ("Lab Engineer")
• Planning and implementation of (large) scale experiments including scientific, experimental and measuring design
• Research driven development laser-optical measurement technology (tomoPIV, LOA, ...), also as a service for researchers in the Lab
• Adoption of laser-optical measuring technology for Danube water operation of the BOKU River Lab (in particular for the 10m3/s channel)
• Scientific supervision of laser-optical measurement equipment (tomographic PIV etc) and scientific infrastructure such as the laser-optical Lab
• Scientific investigations in the field of hydraulic engineering, sediment transport and river research
• Publication of the results in international journals and presentation at national/international conferences
• Supervision of students

Required skills and qualifications

• Doctorate degree / PhD or completion of the doctorate in Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering or related university degrees or
• Diploma degree in Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, or other equivalent university degree
• Language skills: very good written and spoken German and English skills
• Excellent knowledge and experience in planning and implementing hydraulic scale models, in particular large scale models on research topics of the Institute
• Advanced knowledge of PIV and LDV measurements
• Very good knowledge of measurement and test engineering

Desired skills and qualifications

• Experience in project management and collaborating with workshop teams
• Interest and enthusiasm for working in a team
• Strong desire to conduct excellent research
• Didactic skills, publications

University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna seeks to increase the number of its female faculty and staff members. Therefore qualified women are strongly encouraged to apply. In case of equal qualification, female candidates will be given preference unless reasons specific to an individual male candidate tilt the balance in his favour.

People with disabilities and appropriate qualifications are specifically encouraged to apply.

Please send your job application incl.

• Motivation letter
• CV
• List of Publications

to HR Management, BOKU University, Peter-Jordan-Straße 70, 1190 Vienna; E-Mail: recruiting@boku.ac.at. (Reference code: 172)

We regret that we cannot reimburse applicants travel and lodging expenses incurred as part of the selection and hiring process.

www.boku.ac.at

Where to apply

E-mail: recruiting@boku.ac.at

Requirements

Research Field: Environmental science » Water science

Education Level: Master Degree or equivalent

Additional Information

Please note that the full job description is only available in German.

Website for additional job details: https://boku.ac.at/en/pers/interne-jobboerse

Work Location(s)

Number of offers available: 1

Company/Institute: Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and River Research

Country: Austria

City: Vienna

Postal Code: 1200

Street: Am Brigittenauer Sporn 3

Contact

City: Vienna

Website: https://boku.ac.at/

Street: Peter-Jordan-Straße 70