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Thyssen@KWI Fellowship 2026 (KWI Essen)
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Apply for the Thyssen@KWI Fellowship from April to September 2026! Spend six months fully immersed in your next scientific project in a stimulating research environment. The application deadline is 29 August 2025.
Thyssen@KWI Fellowship 2026
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Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI); Frítz Thyssen Stiftung für Wissenschaftsförderung (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI), Goethestraße 31), 45128 Essen (Deutschland)
01.04.2026 – 30.09.2026
Bewerbungsschluss: 29.08.2025
The Thyssen@KWI Fellowship is integrated into the fellowship programme and addresses excellent researchers from the humanities, cultural studies, and the social sciences. It is most generously funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation. We invite applications from research fellows who have completed their PhD and have already gained several years of post-doctoral research expertise. Project proposals should address KWI’s research agenda. International researchers are invited to apply, as well as scholars of German nationality, if they provide excellent international contacts and work experience. The KWI (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut) in Essen provides fellows with modern infrastructure, office space, technical support, and offers a library service, event and research management as well as any administrative and communicative support. The Thyssen@Fellow will receive a fellowship contract (not a full-employment contract) and a monthly allowance of 4.000 € (pre-tax). This allowance is intended to cover rent, insurances and living expenses. Fellows will have the opportunity to liaise with researchers in a rich and diversified academic landscape: The University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr), KWI’s umbrella structure, strategically links the universities of Duisburg-Essen, Bochum and Dortmund.
Expectations:
– Candidates will have a completed PhD plus several years of postdoctoral experience. We expect applicants to work on a project that differs from their PhD research.
– Applications are open to international researchers. German scholars may apply, provided they demonstrate outstanding international work experience and contacts.
– Candidates will have a strong scientific track record. We welcome applications from candidates with a proven recordof third-party funding and/or with experience in science communication and/or public humanities.
– The fellowship should be dedicated to research linked to one or more of KWI’s focus areas and consistent with its interdisciplinary agenda. Various project formats are possible: You might devote your time in Essen to finishing a book or a special issue, finalizing a research proposal or setting up a research group.
– We expect the Thyssen@KWI Fellow to be present at the institute at least 3 days a week. The fellow will be expected to participate in entry and exit interviews.
– The Thyssen@KWI Fellow is requested to actively take part in the Colloquium, lectures, conferences, reading groups and other academic events at KWI. Moreover, we expect the fellow to contribute to the KWI Blog.
– The Thyssen@KWI Fellow may have the opportunity to organize a workshop as part of the program, depending on available resources and scheduling constraints.
– The Thyssen@KWI Fellow is not expected to teach, but always welcome to participate in lecture series and seminars at surrounding universities.
– Publications deriving from the time of residence should mention KWI and the Fritz Thyssen Foundation.
– Knowledge of German is not required since the Fellowship programme relies on a strong command of English.
– We expect successful applicants to begin their fellowship on the announced starting date (April 1 2026). Due to our semester schedule and the design of the fellowship programme, the start and end of the fellowship are not negotiable.
Application:
We kindly ask you to apply in the form of one single PDF file (max. 20 MB) which must be submitted electronically tointernational.fellowship@uni-due.de with the subject line: “Thyssen@KWIFellowship”.
– The application must be written in English and must contain a CV, a list of publications, PhD certificate, and proposal sketching your KWI project (up to max. 5,000 characters for the proposal).
– Fellows will be selected by a committee consisting of external reviewers, the institute’s director and the Fritz Thyssen foundation.
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For further questions, please contactinternational.fellowship@uni-due.de
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