Postdoc-Scholarships

The format is designed to enable outstanding postdocs who have graduated with an excellent doctorate from Bauhaus-Universität Weimar to advance their academic careers through a new research project.

• For doctoral alumni who have completed their doctorate with excellence at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.
• support for innovative ideas that take up and complement the research priorities of the faculties
• The existing research priorities are to be enriched sustainably and through an original approach.

Funding: 2,000 euros per month
(if applicable, child allowance: 300 Euro for the 1. child, 150 Euro each further child)

Funding period: from April 2024 | duration 12 months
Extensions for a 2nd funding year are possible if the interim report is succesful and funds are available

This Thuringian programme aims to contribute to increasing the number of female habilitation students and professors. The awarding of these scholarships is intended to make it easier for women to remain in the science system and flanks the federal and state programme for the promotion of young researchers, which was launched in 2017. The recruitment of excellent female researchers and artists and their support in developing an international reputation, gaining sound teaching experience and developing further interdisciplinary skills makes an important contribution to the individual promotion of female researchers and artists who have completed their doctorates. The scholarships awarded at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar enable post-doctoral researchers and artists to further advance their university careers through a new research project or a new artistic endeavour and, in the long term, to even better fulfil the hiring requirements for a scientific or artistic professorship, thus further increasing their chances of being appointed.  

Within the framework of a program for female post-doctoral researchers - the second program phase runs until 2025:

• Start-up funding for the development of own research proposals or for the preparation of own artistic project proposals (6 months)
• Full funding for own research projects or artistic projects in order to bring them to application maturity in common funding formats (12 months, if necessary extension by further 12 months)
• Final funding for the finalization or publication of research projects or artistic projects (6 - max. 12 months)

Female applicants for the Thuringian Program should be professionally and organisationally connected to a subject area of the university, but do not have to be alumna of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.

Separate call for proposals for start-up funding for female postdocs to enter the postdoc or habilitation phase, financed from funds of the Professorinnenprogramm III (female professors programme)

Funding period: from April 2024 | duration up to 6 months

Funding: 2,000 euros per month
if applicable, child supplement (300 euros for the first child, 150 euros for each additional child)

The doctoral grade must be proven at the time of application or at the latest for the pre-selection for the 2nd round.

A Bauhaus Post-Doc Scholarship may not be awarded to candidates who are already receiving public funding.

Scholarships may not be awarded to full-time employees. Candidates are allowed, however, to work part-time in research or teaching at a university or non-university research institute for a maximum of 12 hrs. per week or other part-time work for a maximum of 5 hrs. per week (MdU 58/2019, changed with MdU 30/2022).

The funding period generally begins on 1 April.

Accompanying activities - the following is conceivable: 

• give a public project presentation open to members of the university.
• Thuringian Programme for female Postdocs: involvement in teaching
• interest in supporting doctoral candidates the Bauhaus University Weimar
• Publications on the postdoctoral project are expressly encouraged during the funding period.

A final report must be drawn up at the end of the funding period.

Please use the online application form with file upload for your application documents:

• language: German or English
• 1 PDF document (1 file incl. all attachments, please include name in file name).
• file size max. 15 MB
• not password-protected

Please include the following documents in the order shown below:

1. Statement of motivation (max. 2 pages)
   - your motivation for further researching at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
   - how your project is connected to the areas of research at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
   - plannend involvement in teaching
2. Curriculum vitae (CV)
3. Project outline (max. 10 pages)
   explanation of the objectives, research overview, research theme, methods and selected bibliography 
4. Abstract (max. 1.600 characters including spaces)
5. Detailed timetable and work schedule
6. List of references including the names of two additional university professors
7. University degrees (master’s degree/Diplom)
8. doctoral certificate (with distinction/grade as scan or certification by the commission)
9. if applicable: explanation of special personal circumstances and biographical hurdles such as caring for a child or relative, a disability or chronic illness, your parents' (educational) background, migration background, experience of discrimination, etc.
   (Please enclose proof or have it ready for inquiries by the Commission) 

PLEASE NOTE – separate submission by the professor:

10. Letter of recommendation from a professor of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar with a statement regarding the project, as well as the academic and organisational integration of the post-doc scholarship recipient.

Please submit the letter of recommendation separately as a pdf file via the respective professor/department until 31 January to the scholarship coordinator: stipendien[at]uni-weimar.de

The scholarship award committee at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar decides on the basis of the quality, feasibility, prospects of success and sustainability of the postdoctoral project applied for from the perspective of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Furthermore, social aspects and biographical hurdles can be taken into account.

Usually, applications are reviewed in a two-phased selection process:

1. The awarding committee will make its pre-selection in the end of February / beginning of March.
2. The presentations of the previously selected applicants are expected to take place at the beginning of March 2024. (tba)

||| Different deadline apply for the summer call. |||

• Attempts to deceive by applicants will lead to immediate exclusion from the application process. A further application is not possible in this case.
• Decisions of the committee will not be justified towards the applicants due to the absolute confidentiality of the selection procedure.
• The awarding is subject to the availability of funds.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Timon Rabczuk, Vice President for Projcts and Research
Chair of the Scholarship Commission of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

BAUHAUS POSTDOC SCHOLARSHIP

Dr. Johannes-Christian Warda
Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, Prof. Hans-Rudolf Meier 
Denkmalschutz = Denkverbot? Untersuchungen zu Theorie und Lehre des Entwerfens im Bestand

Dr. Mostafa Jamshidian (2014)
Faculty of Civil Engineering, Prof. Timon Rabczuk
Constitutive modelling of surface-energy-minimizing and strain-energy-minimizing grain boundary migration in polycrystalline metals by the coupling of Finite-Element and Phase-filed Methods

Dr. Amir Saboor Bagherzadeh (2013)
Faculty of Civil Engineering, Prof.  Timon Rabczuk
Development and implementation of goal-oriented error estimators for non-linear problems and problems involving fracture

Hassan Yousefi (2012)
Multiresolution based simulation of multiscale schemes
supervised by Prof. Dr. Timon Rabczuk, Faculty of Civil Engineering

Danny Lobos (2011)
Sustainable Room Layout under BIM Environment
supervised by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dirk Donath/ Vertr.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Reinhard König, Faculty of Architecture

Cosmin Anitescu (2010)
Introduction to Isogeometric Analysis
supervised by Prof. Dr. Timon Rabczuk,  Faculty of Civil Engineering

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIPS FOR FEMALE POSTDOCS

Maja Linke (Ph.D.) (2014)
Faculty of Art and Design, Prof. Herbert Wentscher and Prof. Christiane Voss
Aisthetische Unfügsamkeit als Möglichkeit der Entordnung von Sichtbarkeiten

Dr. Liza Wing Man Kam (2014)
Faculty of Architecture, Prof. Frank Eckardt
Topography of the transforming symbolism - Post-colonial heritage in East Asian cities

Dr. Lena Eckert (2013)
Faculty of Media, Prof.  Christiane Voss
Affektive Rationalität oder: „Wer Bildung will, darf Bildung nicht wollen“

Dr. Eva von Engelberg  (2013)
Faculty of Architecture, Prof.  Carsten Ruhl
Dänemark um 1800 – der Klassizismus als Nationalstil?

Nicole Stöcklmayr (2012)
Skripte und Bilder. Kulturtechniken im parametrischen und algorithmischen Architekturentwurf
supervised by Prof. Dr. Bernhard Siegert/ Prof. Dr. Barbara Wittmann, Faculty of Media

Claudia Tomadoni (2011)
Die innovativen Wege der Stadt. Zukunftsträchtige Strategien?
supervised by Prof. Dr. Max Welch Guerra, Faculty of Architecture

Adriana da Silva (2011)
Konformitätsbewertung für Städte am Beispiel der Stadt Weimar
supervised by Prof. Dr. Max Welch Guerra, Faculty of Architecture