Ron Pinhasi has a new position at the Department of Anthropology, University of Vienna, with a new state-of-the-art aDNA laboratory and a team of PhD students, postdocs and technicians that focuses on projects in the fields of paleogenomics and physical anthropology (and a particular focus on links between the two, e.g. genotype-phenotype association, growth, morphometric and genetic distances, etc.).

The University of Vienna and the FWF has advertised the following calls for PhD scholarships and for postdoctoral fellowships (no knowledge of German is required the Anthropology PhD programme is in English):

PhD funding, Deadline 19 January 2018 (15:00), start date October 2018

http://forschung.univie.ac.at/en/services/funding/early-career-researchers/unidocs-fellowship-programme/

Doctoral Fellowship Programme of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Deadline 15 May 2018, start Date January 2019.

http://stipendien.oeaw.ac.at/en/stipendium/doc-doctoral-fellowship-programme-austrian-academy-sciences

Postdoctoral fellowships Programmes:

Lise Meitner programme (rolling call, no deadline)

https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/research-funding/fwf-programmes/meitner-programme/

Elise Richter Programme Deadline December 15, 2017

https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/research-funding/fwf-programmes/richter-programme-incl-richter-peek/

Interested students and researchers should contact Ron Pinhasi to discuss the details.