Tenure-Track Professor in Demography and Human Capital Formation

This tenure-track professorship focuses on analysing human capital formation from a broad international perspective using demographic methods and modelling. Human capital formation encompasses the demographic processes that determine the size, structure, and capabilities of populations, including education, fertility, migration, health, and mortality, all of which contribute to the renewal of populations across generations. While the position is open to all these areas of demography, we particularly welcome outstanding applicants whose research addresses migration and its interrelations with human capital formation.

Applicants should be able to teach all the main areas of demography from an international perspective and demonstrate excellence in formal demography and demographic methods.

The Department of Demography  at the University of Vienna was established in 2019 and comprises a team of faculty members who are involved in both research and teaching. The department is a pillar of the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). which also includes researchers from the Vienna Institute of Demography (ÖAW) and the Population and Just Societies Programme  department of demography, a sub-unit of the Faculty of Social Sciences, aims at contributing to the faculty’s research priorities, and has developed collaborations also with other faculties, such as the Faculty of Earth Sciences, Geography and Astronomy and the Faculty of Psychology.

• Doctoral degree/PhD
• 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
• an attractive salary according to the Collective Bargaining Agreement for University Staff (level A2) and an organisational retirement plan

22 April 2026

If you have any questions about the position or the application process, reach out to berufungsservice.at.