Research Associate for the Project “Intellexus, ERC Synergy Project” § 28 Subsection 3 HmbHG
Institution: Faculty of Humanities, Asia Africa Institute, Department of Indian & Tibetan Studies
Salary level: EGR. 13 TV-L
Start date: 16.01.2027, fixed until 31.03.2030 (This is a fixed-term contract in accordance with Section 2 of the academic fixed-term labor contract act [Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz, WissZeitVG]).
Application deadline: 2026-11-17
Scope of work: full-time position suitable for part-time
Your responsibilities
Duties include academic services in the project named above. Research associates may also pursue further academic qualifications outside of their work responsibilities.
Contribution to the ERC Synergy project Intellexus as a member of the “Sanskrit Literature” team, with a particular focus on selected Buddhist texts in Sanskrit as a case study addressing the research questions and objectives of the Intellexus project, namely the development of tools and the construction of databases for Sanskrit and Tibetan for the study of Buddhist texts with regard to their compositional history, history of ideas, and intellectual ecosystems.
The duties consist of the following tasks:
- contributing to the development of tools for Sanskrit and Tibetan in the areas of compositional history and the history of ideas
- contributing to the identification and, where appropriate, the description of relevant “ideas/concepts”
- contributing to the construction of the text and intellectual-ecosystem databases
- contributing to the development of visualisation tools
- actively participating in conferences and workshops
- publishing project-related research
- preparing a critical edition of selected texts related to their case study
Your profile
A university degree in a relevant field, plus doctorate.
Very good knowledge of Sanskrit; good knowledge of Classical Tibetan, and in particular of canonical Tibetan; very good knowledge of Indian and Indo-Tibetan Buddhist literature. Excellent command of the historical-philological approach.
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