The PhD program Population Genetics provides several advantages compared to a classical PhD project carried out in a single lab:

• Member in an interdisciplinary team of PhD students, all working on different aspects of the same subject
• Members of the PhD program share offices and lab space on the campus, facilitating cooperation
• Special seminar series organized by the PhD students of the program
• Joint weekly journal club
• Special courses aiming to complement already existing skills (statistics, bioinformatics, molecular evolution, molecular biology, population genetics)
• Soft skills training (data presentation, grant writing, paper writing)
• Annual retreat in the Austrian alps
• A competitive salary including benefits
• Personal computer for every student of the PhD program
• Close interaction with other scientists in the Vienna Research Area that have a strong interest in population genetics (e.g.: Nick Barton, Reinhard Bürger, Peter Schuster, Karl Sigmund)