LFUI Guest Professorships

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„LFUI - Guest Professors“ at the University Innsbruck

For the academic year 2025/2026, the Leopold-Franzens-University of Innsbruck invites applications for up to ten "LFUI - Guest Professorships" according to § 26 KV for a stay of two months. The initiative aims to promote top-level international scientific and didactic exchange with the University of Innsbruck and to support internationalisation on site.

Candidates, who have a public sector employment contract with a renowned university or research institution outside of Austria, can be considered for a LFUI-Guest-Professorship. Please also consider candidates from the AURORA European University Alliance. All 16 faculties, the 8 research areas and the CGI research platform of the University of Innsbruck are eligible to apply. Only two applications per faculty/research area are possible.

The call for proposals will be issued to all faculties or research areas of the University of Innsbruck.

Announcement text 2025/2026: GERMAN / ENGLISH

Application form 2025/2026: GERMAN / ENGLISH

The deadline for submission for the academic year 2025/2026 is March 7, 2025.

If you are considering applying as a candidate, please note that the nomination and application can only be submitted by an initiator at an institute/department of the University of Innsbruck.

Address for submission:

International Services
University of Innsbruck
Herzog-Friedrich-Str. 3
A-6020 Innsbruck

Contact person: Mag. Elena Walpoth
Phone: 0043 (0)512 507 32412
Email: elena.walpoth@uibk.ac.at

The Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck aims to increase the proportion of women and therefore especially welcomes proposals for qualified female candidates.

For further information, please contact the submission office.

„LFUI – Wittgenstein Guest Professors“ at the University of Innsbruck

The Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck announces one "LFUI - Wittgenstein Guest Professorship" according to § 26 KV for a period of one month. The aim of the initiative is to promote top-class international scientific and didactic exchange with the University of Innsbruck in the fields of Wittgenstein research (with editorial and cultural-historical orientation) as well as philosophy of language and literature, and to support local internationalization.