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Open Positions: Job Offers

The IMP is a world-class research institute addressing questions of molecular biology. Become one of our 250 staff members from 40 countries and enjoy a stimulating environment and outstanding conditions for a career in scientific research.

Work at the IMP: What's it like?

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Talent pool
Postdoc Victoria Deneke reflects on the pool of talent at the IMP: hundreds of postdocs, PhD students, summer school students, and others make the campus buzz with stimulation.
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Research with a family
Postdocs Elad Bassat and Daria Riabov Bassat on their experience of balancing family life (in their case with a small child) and research career.
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Joining the PhD program
PhD student Kavya Shetty on her onboarding experience as a student coming to the Vienna BioCenter from overseas.
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Vienna and the Vienna BioCenter
Elly Tanaka moved to Vienna in 2016 and enjoys the place for its high standard of living and internationality. The size and quality of research found at the Vienna BioCenter makes it the perfect location for her.
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Collaboration and sharing
Postdoc Zuzana Hodakova and PhD student Hannah Brunner on how "sharing is caring" - also in research.
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Getting backed in starting a lab
Diana Pinheiro started her lab at the IMP in 2022. The institute fully backed her from the beginning: investments were made to enlarge the fish facility for her lab, and a range of scientific services were readily available.
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Thriving under pressure
Life coach and neuroscience PhD alumnus Florian Grössl on his experience of helping people keep up with a high-performance environment.
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Services and core facilities
The research of postdoc Anastasia Chugunova has benefitted from the easy and free access to scientific service facilities such as BioOptics.
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Engineer among biologists
Francisco Balzarotti is a group leader at the IMP. Perhaps unusual, he is not a biologist by training, but an engineer - enjoying opportunities to push the boundaries of microscopy and apply it through collaborations.

Below, you find open positions for jobs that are currently available at the IMP. If you are looking for a job, please keep in mind that the IMP is part of the Vienna BioCenter, a cluster of four research institutes, three universities and two dozen biotech companies. You find a comprehensive and frequently updated list of jobs from all members of the Vienna BioCenter at https://www.viennabiocenter.org/career/open-positions/. 

Advertised Positions

Group Leader positions at the IMP (2024 / 2025)

Ref2414: Postdoc position – Age-related protein disorders (Clausen Group)

Ref2412: Tierpfleger (m/f/d) - Teilzeit (24 Std./Woche) - GERMAN

Ref2411: Research Assistant (Pinheiro Lab) (m, f, x) full-time

Ref2410: Postdoc in super–resolution imaging of gene expression (Balzarotti & Plaschka Labs)

Ref2409: Postdoc in human mRNA maturation (Plaschka Lab)

External: Administrative assistant/Labmanager

Ref2406: Predoc Student (Dagdas Lab and Proteomics Technology Hub)

Ref2405: Stellvertretende tierärztliche Leitung (w/m/d) - GERMAN

Ref2322: PhD Student (Balzarotti Lab)

Ref2321: Master's Student in Physics or Engineering

Ref2214: Master’s Thesis in Structural Biology (cryo-EM) (Plaschka Lab)

Ref2009: Master Student (Haselbach Lab)

IMP Group Leaders on their research

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Andrea Pauli
What are the molecular mechanisms that drive fertilisation and embryonic development?
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Moritz Gaidt
How does the innate immune system recognize pathogens and induce inflammation?
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Diana Pinheiro
Which biophysical mechanisms underlie the formation of embryonic pattern and shape?
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Francisco Balzarotti
How can light-based methods provide maximal information on biological processes?
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Clemens Plaschka
How do molecular machines prepare messenger RNA for gene expression?
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David Haselbach
How are molecular machines designed to fulfil their productive function? How is the failure of such machines prevented?
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Joris van der Veeken
What are the mechanisms that direct T cell differentiation and function?

Graduate Student & Postdoc positions

Apply for PhD Programme / student research

PhD and master student applicants are encouraged to read the information on the relevant pages for Summer School and / or Vienna BioCenter PhD Program. There are two calls per year for the VBC PhD programme, which are both advertised on this page during the appropriate period.

Apply for Postdoc positions

Please note our general page on postdoc opportunities. If your profile matches the subject of one of our research groups, then please send your application directly to the relevant Principal Investigator. 

Benefits and working conditions

The IMP provides significant means, services and facilities to ensure that scientists can focus their time and energy on research. Assignments for research positions are limited in time, supporting a dynamic composition of the faculty and other scientists. Service staff, including those in administrative positions, enjoy a dynamic, international work environment with a strong, unifying vision – contributing to world-class research.

All staff members are entitled to a number of benefits including:

  • competitive salaries;
  • social insurance (full health, accident and unemployment insurance; pension scheme);
  • five weeks of paid holidays per year;
  • free Child Care Center (ages 0 to 6);
  • subsidised cafeteria & bistro;
  • free optional language courses;
  • subsidised social activities (e.g. weekly social hours), sports clubs, and other activities. 

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