Info for Students
- You are given the opportunity to work in an interdisciplinary way.
- You have the opportunity to collaborate with several faculty members, as well as with other students within the DK CIM.
- You are supervised by a thesis committee, consisting of your main supervisor and up to two additional supervisors.
- As a PhD student of the DK CIM you are employed at the University of Innsbruck (30 hours/week), which means full social security coverage under the Austrian national law. The gross salary for these positions will be about €2,832 per month (14x, year: 2026).
- You get a Diploma Supplement for interdisciplinary work within the DK CIM
- You are connected to a network of interdisciplinary researchers in different scientific fields
- Social interaction with other students, student speaker organizes events like playing evenings etc.
- We offer various trainings:
- Summer/winter schools in Obergurgl with special workshops for students, e.g.: Communication in Science, OpenMP course, Julia, etc...
- DK CIM seminars and retreats, e.g.: Alumni seminars, workshops with guest Professors like Prof. José Antonio Carrillo (University of Oxford), etc...
- IGK-Series lectures, e.g.: Case studies in HPC, Software in Scientific Computing, etc...
Career perspectives
The students of the DK CIM enormously profit from the interdisciplinary approach of the doctoral programme. They reach a high level not only in terms of practical and theoretical skills, but also in conceptual reasoning with insights into multiple subjects. The students acquire an interdisciplinary awareness of related research fields and learn to communicate with professionals from various areas of research. This allows them to contribute to a wide range of technical and scientific applications and teaches them how to approach new problems in an unsurpassed manner. As a result, the students are highly sought after, in science as well as in industry, both on a national and international level.
Careers in industry at software companies, the European centre for weather forecast, computing centres of banks, enterprises for engineering construction, technology-oriented consulting and engineering firms, and patent offices await them. Several students have obtained scientific positions at Max-Planck-Institutes (Germany), the National Research Center Los Alamos (USA), and universities in Austria, Sweden, Germany, Portugal, Italy, Spain, both in physics and computer science departments.
How to apply for a PhD position
Please contact one of our Faculty members and apply for open positions!
Postions fundet by the University of Innsruck are announced here.
How to apply for the DK CIM
- your supervisor from the faculty sends a formless application to dk-cim@uibk.ac.at
- you will receive an email with further instructions how to join DK CIM.
Teaching
The aim of the DK CIM is to strengthen research-oriented teaching, as well as to promote young scientists. Thus teaching within the DK CIM is directly linked to the program to guarantee a close cooperation with world-class researchers from various fields like atmospheric sciences, chemistry, computer science, engineering sciences, mathematics and physics. Teaching is embedded in cutting-edge research. This gives the students the opportunity to become excellent researchers themselves. In line with the research topic of the PhD thesis the students choose specialized courses from a broad range of topics.
Apart from scientific courses, students are given the opportunity to participate in courses on soft skills, such as presentation techniques, writing skills, technical English, negotiation methods, acquisition of third-party funds and project management. The acquisition of such skills makes the students highly sought after, in particular also in careers in the private sector.
Moreover, the DK CIM introduced novel means of teaching including the DK CIM retreats, the DK CIM winter schools and the DK CIM research clusters.
DK CIM retreats
The DK CIM retreats provide the opportunity of an exchange of research between the DK CIM students. At these retreats the students present their work in form of oral presentations and in poster sessions. During these presentations all participants support the PhD students by critically analysing the present state of their respective scientific work, as well as discussing future directions. Such discussions help to develop new project ideas and form collaborations. The faculty members give the students feedback on their overall progress. In addition a meeting of the faculty members and the students is held to discuss the progress of the programme.
DK CIM winter/summer schools
The DK winter/summer schools are organized every year to present and discuss ongoing research in cooperation with other scientists. Graduates of the DK CIM are invited to attend. The PhD students present their projects and discuss them with the audience. Complementary topics are presented by external speakers. The DK CIM winter schools are a great opportunity to socialise, improve presentation skills, foster network activities and to trigger joint projects.
IGK-Series lectures
Together with the research Area Scientific Computing we offer interdisciplinary lectures each semester.
Research stays abroad
The DK CIM allows PhD students to undertake research stays abroad. Based on the network activities of the faculty the students get the opportunity to attend a university or research institution abroad to work on a project related to their research topics. The aim of the research stays abroad is to get to know new scientific points of view, to establish an own network and to get familiar with a different cultural environment.
Conferences
The PhD students attend international scientific conferences to present and discuss their research work, thereby initiating future collaborations with other research institutions.
Contact
DK CIM Speaker
Univ-Prof. Lukas Einkemmer, PhD
Tel.: 0512 507 53818
email: lukas.einkemmer@uibk.ac.at
DK CIM Deputy Speaker
Univ-Prof. Dr. Heiko Gimperlein
Tel.: 0512 507 61330
email: heiko.gimperlein@uibk.ac.at