4 Predoc Scientist Positions (all genders welcome)

The University of Klagenfurt is in the process of establishing a Karl Popper Kolleg (graduate school) entitled “FruitScope: A DroneScope for Smart Agriculture”. The following positions are open for applicants at this school with an anticipated starting date of October 1, 2025:

Up to 4 Predoc Scientist Positions (all genders welcome)

Level of employment: 75 % (30 hours per week) each

Minimum salary: € 39,005.40 per annum (gross); classification according to collective bargaining agreement: B1

Limited to: 3 years

Application deadline: August 20, 2025

Reference code: 338/25

Tasks and responsibilities:

- Independent research and scientific qualification within the Karl Popper Kolleg FruitScope with the aim to acquire the Doctoral Degree in Technical Sciences

- Peer-reviewed publication of scientific results in journals and at conferences

- Team work and student mentoring

- Active participation in public relations activities

This graduate school seeks to push the current bounds of state-of-the-art in navigation, coordination, sensing, and communication of multi agent unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The groups of the involved faculty publish in international top journals and conference proceedings. Successful applicants will be encouraged and supported to publish and present their work in such journals and proceedings and will have the opportunity to cooperate with our world-renowned international partners in science and industry. We currently cooperate with partners worldwide, mainly in the USA/Canada and Europe. We specifically encourage close and open collaboration with our peers both internationally and at the University and support international exchanges with the universities and research institutions affiliated to the graduate school (e.g., ETH Zurich, MIT, CMU, NASA, UofT, U-Mich, UPenn, Georgia Tech). Our young research groups provide a dynamic, familiar, and friendly attitude and thus a collaborative and inspiring work environment with very modern infrastructure (e.g., one of the largest indoor drone halls in Europe), which is continuously updated and upgraded (e.g., soon, with one of the largest outdoor drone test fields in the world).