14 Postdoctoral Fellowships - Early Career Rescue Fellowship Programme
(Full-time, up to E 14 TV-L)
Reference No: 2025/229. The fellowship is limited to two years. The starting date is available from July 2026. The fellowships are funded by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research and Arts.
Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. The Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), the Tübingen College of Fellows (CoF), and the Zukunftskolleg Konstanz (ZuKo) invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA, to apply for the Baden-Württemberg Early Career Rescue Fellowships 2026-2028.
The fellowships are available to researchers from all over the world and from any discipline represented at one if the three universities with a minimum of one year and a maximum of seven years of post-doctoral experience, who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. The aim is to provide time and space for their excellent research and open up international prospects for their future career. The programme offers a two-year research position at one of the three universities, preferred by the applicant, and local disciplinary cooperation, as well as support, resources, networks and exchange within the respective Institute for Advanced Studies with its international and interdisciplinary community of fellows.
For application, please consult the Programme and Application Manual available on the institutes' homepages and then apply with the Application Form. Application deadline: January 9th, 2026, 11:00 AM (CET) .
For further questions please contact one of the participating Institutes for Advanced Studies:
Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz: Mihaela Mihaylova, zuko-application@uni-konstanz.de
FRIAS: Annette Doll, fellowships@frias.uni-freiburg.de
Tübinger College of Fellows: Niels Weidtmann, info@cof.uni-tuebingen.de
The University of Konstanz is committed to ensuring an environment that provides equal opportunities and promotes diversity as well as a good balance between university and family life. As an equal opportunity employer, we strive to increase the number of women working in research and teaching. We also support working couples through our dual career programme ().Persons with disabilities are explicitly encouraged to apply. They will be given preference if appropriately qualified (contact sbv@uni-konstanz.de, + 49 7531 88-4016).