Generously funded by the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation and intended for PhD candidates in STEM disciplines and related fields
Read more about the grants available in Austria on the global Fulbright homepage.
Applications for the US Fulbright Student Program must be submitted online using the IIE portal. Please read the detailed information below before applying.
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Fulbright Austria (the Austrian-American Educational Commission) offers up to five Fulbright-Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Awards for full-time research and/or study. These grants are generously funded by the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation and intended for PhD candidates in STEM disciplines and related fields. Applications from highly qualified graduate students and recent undergraduates with strong project proposals in relevant fields will also be considered.
Fulbright proposal types
Independent study/research: Yes
Graduate degree enrollment: No
Benefits
PhD candidates, graduate students, and recent graduates will be considered. Fulbright Austria and the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation review project proposals for their coherence and quality. They are particularly—but by no means exclusively—interested in proposals of bilateral or comparative relevance that enhance research collaboration between Austrian and American institutions.
Accepted degree levels
Bachelor's
Master's
PhD
Ineligibility
Applicants proposing study or research in medicine or veterinary medicine will not be considered.
Foreign-language proficiency
Recommended: Intermediate level of German
Contingent upon project proposal
Fulbright Austria expects students to study German as part of their preparations for their stay in Austria to help fulfill the program’s bilateral mandate of promoting mutual understanding and to negotiate the challenges of everyday life. As a rule, university courses are taught in German, although an increasing number of courses are offered in English, and English is the working language in many research facilities.
Dependents
Dependent support is not available.
Michaela Polley was a 2023–24 recipient of the Fulbright-Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Awards for Research in Science and Technology. Michaela's affiliate for her project was the University of Klagenfurt, and her research project was entitled Enumeration of Generic Guillotine Rectangulations. Watch the interview to find out more about Michaela's experience in Austria in general and with this grant type in particular.
All Fulbright grantees, including PhD candidates, must be fully matriculated at accredited universities in Austria to facilitate tuition remission, health insurance, the use of libraries, archives, labs, etc. Fulbright Austria facilitates university enrollment at the applicant's preferred university. Applicants should identify the individuals and institutions that will provide on-site guidance for their projects and include letters of affiliation from host institutions. Invitations are absolutely necessary for full-time research and study grants and should indicate how applicants will be anchored and supervised at host institutions.
Affiliation fees/tuition
Fulbright Austria facilitates university enrollment at the applicant's preferred university, and the Austrian government provides for the waiver of tuition fees at public universities. Fulbright Austria does not cover tuition costs for enrollment at private institutions of higher education or other programs of advanced study in Austria that do not waive tuition fees.
Letter of invitation
Before applying, applicants should correspond with preferred institutions about availability of equipment and facilities and solicit letters of invitation.
I am so thankful that I can hear [my colleagues’] stories and perspectives from all over the globe—we represent five countries on four continents with five native languages!
-Elizabeth Sarkel, 2018–19 US Fulbright student, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
Laura Hankins
University of Vienna
Optimizing a novel Langerin Ligand for a Langerhans Chemotherapeutic Delivery System
Dylan Ines
University of Vienna
Molecular Probe and Drug Development for the Oxytocin and Vasopressin Signaling Systems
Michaela Polley
Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt
Enumeration of Generic Guillotine Rectangulations
Jagienka Timek
Medical University of Vienna
Immune Response of Spider Silk Components in Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells In Vitro
Annie Huang
Research Institute of Molecular Pathology
Genome-wide identification of transcriptional function
Jesse Hudspeth
Medical University of Innsbruck
Structural Characterization and Mutational Analysis of P. cubensis Methyltransferase PsiM
Sara Kouchehbagh
Vienna University of Technology
Conflict and Migration: Examining Trends in Austria through GIS and Cartography
Kian Shamskhou
Johannes Kepler University Linz
Chemically Sustainable Catalytic Reduction of CO2
Brooke Boisvert
Medical University of Vienna
The effects of THC on the developing postnatal hippocampus
Grace Bukowski-Thall
Medical University of Graz
The Connection Between a Disrupted Gut and Depression
Sara Butler
University of Vienna
Quantum Gravity in Vienna: Testing the Limits of General Relativity with Quantum Optics
Benjamin McKenna
Institute of Science and Technology Austria
The Matrix Dyson Equation: Landscape Complexity and Gaussian Multiplicative Chaos
Chase Yakaboski
Johannes Kepler University Linz
Artificial Intelligence in Music
Isabel Garon
Graz University of Technology
Applying Biologically Inspired Learning Algorithms to Spatially Embedded Neural Networks
Vincent Pham
Institute of Molecular Biotechnology
Modeling and analysis of structural brain connectivity in 3D cerebral organoids
David Berger
Medical University of Innsbruck
Investigating the Role of T-cell Phenotype Composition in Heterologous Cancer Vaccines
Alexandra Hauke
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
Evaluation and Reduction of Methane Emmissions from European Biogas Plants
Hope McGovern
Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Nanoscale Photonics for High-Resolution Biological Imaging
Keziah Sheldon
University of Vienna
Single Photon Detector for Direct Measurement of Single- and Multi-photon States
Jessica Thwaites
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Space Research Institute
Research in magnetosphere space physics
