Postdoc Support Fund

Inviting visiting researchers from institutions outside of Germany

• Financial support is available for those who invite excellent researchers from abroad. Members of the faculty, who primarily work at the faculty in an academic capacity, are eligible to apply. Either the hosting or the visiting researcher(s) must be postdocs.
• Funding covers travel and accommodation costs. Additionally, full or partial funding is available for academic events at the faculty organised by the visiting researcher. Living expenses cannot be covered.
• The funding can be combined with other support measures, e.g. with funding from the faculty's Mentoring Program or with a program of the China Scholarship Council (CSC).

Relief from personal research activities and/or after parental leave or periods of caring for relatives

• You can apply to be relieved of some personal research activities, in particular of applying for third-party research funding, and/or to relieve the burden during periods of caring for relatives, or if you are a parent after parental leave without a place in a Kita (kindergarten/daycare).
• You can apply for relief in the form of a reduction of teaching duties, without affecting your working hours or your pay. Teaching duties can be reduced to half the usual teaching load for a semester at a time; the reduction is limited to a total of 5 SWS (Semesterwochenstunden, weekly teaching hours) and up to 2 SWS per semester. The reduction is offset by a substitute, who takes on the teaching responsibilities. Applicants must suggest a substitute, who must also have a doctorate.
• Alternatively, or in addition to a reduction in teaching duties, you can also apply for funding for an assistant to provide support in marking work, literature procurement, preparation of material, etc. Applicants are asked to look for a suitable assistant.

Research stays by postdocs of the faculty

• Financial support is available for postdocs of the faculty if they plan to undertake a research stay abroad for the purpose of preparing a research collaboration, a publication or a joint application for third-party funding with researchers working abroad. However, travel to conferences or to give lectures cannot be funded.

Open Access publications by postdocs of the faculty

• Financial support is available for open access publications by postdocs. Postdocs are eligible to apply if they are, in the role as author or editor of the publication, a so-called "corresponding author" of the LMU.
• Only Gold Open Access publications can be funded.

The deadlines for applications in each calendar year are:

• 28th February
• 31st May
• 31st August
• 30th November

Please submit your application via the online portal Postdoc Support Fund

After a successful initial review, all applications are placed before the committee on the next deadline day and decided individually. The applicable deadline day depends on the date of submission in the application tool.

The decision criteria for applications are, first, the added value which the application is expected to create for Faculty 10, and also, to what extent the application serves the four support areas named above. Finally, the ratio between the necessary financial investment and the expected return for the applicant and the faculty is evaluated.

You can apply for support under several measures at the same time. However, you will most likely only be granted support under one measure at a time. The committee can accept an application in full or in part, if only parts of the application are deemed suitable for funding.

If you have questions or requests, you can contact the members of the committe:

• Prof. Dr. Axel Hutter
• Prof. Dr. Dr. Hannes Leitgeb
• Prof. Dr. Ophelia Deroy
• Dr. Silvia Jonas
• Dr. Thomas Wyrwich
• Dr. Karsten Thiel