IIASA provides full funding for 4 postdoctoral researchers each year. Scholars are expected to conduct their own research within one of IIASA's research programs or special projects on topics closely related to IIASA's
agenda.
The goals of the IIASA Postdoctoral Program are:
- to encourage and promote the development of young researchers and offer them the opportunity to further their careers by gaining hands-on professional research experience in a highly international scientific environment; and
- to enrich IIASA’s intellectual environment and help achieve research program goals.
As well as the special prestige attached to a postdoctoral award at IIASA, recipients enjoy a substantial number of professional benefits as well as a competitive remuneration package.
There are currently nine IIASA research programs carrying out
research into the dynamics of global change.
The IIASA research programs are not discipline-based, but are themselves interdisciplinary and house a diversity of scientific expertise, across the natural (e.g., biology, chemistry), physical (e.g., physics, mathematics, engineering), and social sciences (e.g., economics, demography, geography) that together focus on a particular research theme.
Research Programs:
- Advanced Systems Analysis
- Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases
- Ecosystems Services and Management
- Energy
- Evolution and Ecology
- Risk and Resilience
- Transitions to New Technologies
- Water
- World Population
