Various postdoctoral scholarship formats are awarded annually at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. The calls for applications for the funding year 2023/24 were published in autumn 2022 and the majority of the scholarships has already been awarded. The next regular call for applications will start in the winter semester 2023 for the funding year April 2024 - March 2025.
The following scholarship formats have been available:
1. BAUHAUS-POSTDOC-SCHOLARSHIP for Alumni
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 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 of the Bauhaus University are to be enriched sustainably and through an original approach.
Funding period: from April 2023 | duration 12 months
Funding: 2,000 euros per month
2. THURINGIAN PROGRAM for female postdocs
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.
Funding period: begin in April | 6 or 12 months
Funding: 2.000 euros per month
3. BRIDGE SCHOLARSHIP for female postdocs
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 2023 | duration up to 6 months
Funding: 2,000 euros per month
Scholarships 2024/25
December: The next call for applications will to start in December 2023.
January: The expected application deadline is probably 31st of January, 2024.
Feb/March: As a rule, the awarding committee for scholarships of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar will select the scholarship holders in February/March.
- Applications will only be considered if they are complete and submitted before the application deadline.
- An application can not be considered without a letter of recommendation.
- There is no legal entitlement to the award of a scholarship.
Funding requirements
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 10 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.
OBLIGATIONS - scholarship holders are expected to:
- give a public project presentation open to members of the university.
- commitment to the qualification and support of doctoral students at the Bauhaus University Weimar
- Thuringian Programme for female Postdocs: involvement in teaching
- a final report
Publications on the postdoctoral project are expressly requested during the funding period.
Application documents
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:
- 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 - Curriculum vitae (CV)
- Project outline (max. 10 pages)
explanation of the objectives, research overview, research theme, methods and selected bibliography - Abstract (max. 1.600 characters including spaces)
- Detailed timetable and work schedule
- List of references including the names of two additional university professors
- University degrees (master’s degree/Diplom)
- doctoral certificate (with distinction/grade as scan or certification by the commission)
- where applicable, an 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 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
Selection process
The awarding committee will make its funding decisions based on the quality, prospects of success and the sustainable impact of the post-doc projects from the point of view 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
- The awarding committee will make its pre-selection in the end of February / beginning of March.
- Afterwards, the pre-selected candidates will hold presentations in March, upon which the commission will base its final decisions.
- 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. Andrea Osburg
Chair of the Scholarship Commission at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
BAUHAUS POSTDOC SCHOLARSHIP
[2nd call until 31st of August 2023]
THURINGIAN PROGRAM FOR FEMALE POSTDOCS
Jelena Jeremejewa
supported by the Professur für Philosophie und Ästhetik
»Frohes Neues Jahr!«
Melike Orhan
supported by the Professur für Sozialwissenschaftliche Stadtforschung
»The effects of urban space quality in determining the value of squares use as public space: the case of Weimar city«
Marina Vinnik
supported by the Professur für Medien-Ereignisse
»Object-Oriented Ontology and Bauhaus«
BRIDGE SCHOLARSHIP
for woment o start a habilitation or postdoc project
[not awarded in 2023]
Learn more about the projects in the online scholarship gallery.
BAUHAUS POSTDOC SCHOLARSHIP
Leo Bockelmann
begleitet durch die Professur für Denkmalpflege und Baugeschichte
»Verdrängte Industrialisierung? Landwirtschaftsbauten aus der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts als schwieriges Erbe.« (Teilstipendium)
Max Neupert
begleitet durch die Professur für die Gestaltung medialer Umgebungen
»Electrically actuated strings for hybrid musical instruments« (Teilstipendium)
THURINGINA PROGRAM FOR FEMALE POSTDOCS
Jelena Jeremejewa
Fakultät Medien, begleitet durch die Professur für Bildtheorie
»Frohes Neues Jahr!«
Reham Hassanen
begleitet durch die Professur für Sozialwissenschaftliche Stadtforschung
»Revisiting Integration through Cultural Mapping: Cultural integration of Arab Newcomers in German cities (Thuringen)«
Katia Schwerzmann
begleitet durch die Professur für die Philosophie audiovisueller Medien
»Toward a Hauntology of Touch« [nicht angetreten]
Julia von Mende
begleitet durch die Professur für die Theorie und Geschichte der modernen Architektur sowie der Professur für Stadtplanung
»Wohnpraktiken und ihre Räume: Zur Geschichte der empirischen Erforschung des Wohnens«
BRIDGE SCHOLARSHIP
for women to enter the habilitation or post-doc phase
[not awarded in 2022]
BAUHAUS-POSTDOC SCHOLARSHIP
Ivana Sidjimovska, Ph.D.,
Project at the Faculty of Art and Design, supported by the department Public Art and New Artistic Strategies
»Aus der Peripherie: Das Humboldt Forum als Museum der Solidarität«
POSTDOC SCHOLARSHIP WITHIN THE THURINGIAN PROGRAM FOR FEMALE POSTDOCS
Dr. Giorgia Aquilar
Project at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, supported by the department Conservation and History of Architecture
»Heritage Entanglements. Infesting Architectures, Displacing Legacies, Sublating Cities«
POSTDOC SCHOLARSHIP WITHIN THE THURINGIAN PROGRAM FOR FEMALE POSTDOCS
Dr. Zohreh Sheikh Khozani, Projekt an der Fakultät Bauingenieurwesen, unterstützt von der Professur für Computational Mechanics (Teilstipendium)
»Determination of suspended sediment concentration: application of entropy concept and new soft computing methods«
BAUHAUS POSTDOC STIPENDIUM
Dr. Christoph Engemann, Projekt an der Fakultät Medien, unterstützt von der Professur Geschichte und Theorie der Kulturtechniken (Teilstipendium)
»Medien und Geschichte der Transaktion«
Dr. Rebekka Ladewig, Projekt an der Fakultät Medien, unterstützt von der Professur Theorie medialer Welten (Teilstipendium)
»Eindringliche Botschaften. Eine Kultur- und Mediengeschichte des Pfeils«
BAUHAUS POSTDOC SCHOLARSHIP
Kaya Behkalam, Ph.D., Projekt an der Fakultät Medien, begleitet durch Professur für Bildtheorie
»Virtual Excavations«
BAUHAUS POSTDOC PROFIL+ SCHOLARSHIP
Dr. Shuvajit Mukherjee, Projekt an der Fakultät Bauingenieurwesen, begleitet durch Professur für Modellierung und Simulation – Mechanik
»Investigation on dynamic crack propagation for brittle material: A phase field approach considering underlying physics«
POSTDOC SCHOLARSHIP WITHIN THE THURINGIAN PROGRAM FOR FEMALE POSTDOCS
Theresa Schubert, Ph.D., Projekt an der Fakultät Kunst und Gestaltung, begleitet durch Professur für Gestaltung medialer Umgebungen
»Fleisch im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit«
Bauhaus-Postdoc-Stipendium
Dr. Steffen Hven
Fakultät Medien, begleitet von der Professur für Medienphilosophie
»Cinema and Narration: Towards an Embodied and Media-Anthropological Approach«
Thüringer Programm zur Förderung von Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen und Nachwuchskünstlerinnen
Dr. Christa Pfafferott
Fakultät Medien, künstlerisches Postdoc-Projekt begleitet von der Professur für Bildtheorie
»Die Ecke.«
Bauhaus-Postdoc-Profil+Stipendien
Dr. phil. Ammalia Podlaszewska
Fakultät Architektur und Urbanistik, begleitet von der Professur für Sozialwissenschaftliche Stadtforschung
»Temporality in Urbanism: Mobility and Neighborhood gentrification. Adapting the methodology of comparative urbanism«
Dr. Chao Ding
Fakultät Bauingenieurwesen, begleitet von der Professur für Angewandte Mathematik
»Conformally Invariant Differential Equations and Applications in Physics«
Dr. Saskia Kuliga
Computer Science in Architecture
»Converging perspectives – Using virtual reality to evaluate user-centred architecture«
Bauhaus-Postdoc-Profil+ Scholarship
Till Ansgar Baumhauer, Ph.D.
History and Theory of Art
»Kunst und/oder Subversion. Kritische künstlerische Stimmen im persisch-pakistanischen Stadt- und Kulturraum und ihr Bezug zu künstlerischen Positionen iranischer, afghanischer und pakistanischer Künstler im Exil«
Dr. Amir Mosavi
Modelling and Simulation of Structures
»Computational Materials Design Innovations«
Dr. Lena Eckert
Philosophy of Audio-Visual Media
»Affektive Rationalität oder: 'Wer Bildung will, darf Bildung nicht wollen'«
(habilitation)
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