Tenure Track Assistant Professorship in Microeconomics (1.0 FTE)

Tenure Track Assistant Professorship in Microeconomics (1.0 FTE) (222675)

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Job description

The Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Groningen is looking for a Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Microeconomics.

For this position, we welcome candidates with excellent research skills and a shown interest in the field of either behavioral/applied game theory and/or industrial organization. Experimentalists with a strong technical background and game theorists with experience in designing and conducting lab experiments are especially encouraged to apply, as for this position lab management tasks may substitute part of the teaching obligations. Applicants must have completed (or nearing completion of) a PhD in economics.

Candidates have the ability to conduct high quality, original research and to publish in high-ranked international journals. Time for research is allocated according to standardized faculty procedures, which guarantee 50% time for research during the tenure track period. As to teaching, the candidate contributes to the courses in the BSc and MSc programs, including the supervision of bachelor and master theses.

Qualifications

To qualify, you should have:

• a completed PhD in Economics, or being close to completion
• a relevant research record in microeconomics, with publications and/or the potential to publish in top tier economics journals
• teaching experience and good teaching skills
• a University Teaching Qualification (UTQ) or the willingness to obtain this qualification
• a collaborative and positive attitude, strong communicative skills; and
• an ambition to develop an international network of professional contacts.

Organisation

The University of Groningen (UG), founded in 1614, has a strong focus on research. We are in the top 100 of several influential university ranking lists. The Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) is one of the largest faculties with approximately 7,500 students. It has a strong international reputation and is AACSB and EQUIS accredited. See http://www.rug.nl/feb for more information.

The Department of Economics, Econometrics and Finance (EEF), embedded in FEB, is an active and international research community, performing at the highest international level in terms of research and publications. Central research themes are among other things behavioral and experimental economics, industrial organization, applied microeconomics, (applied and theoretical) econometrics, health, ageing and pensions, finance and asset pricing. Researchers can run economic laboratory experiments using the faculty’s GrEELab facilities. Members of the department regularly publish in a wide range of top and top-field journals.

The Department is responsible for courses in several bachelor, master and PhD programs in Economics, Business Economics, Finance, and Econometrics. We offer research driven education within four Bachelor programs, fifteen Master programs, and three Executive Master programs.

Conditions of employment

In accordance with the collective labor agreement for Dutch Universities, we offer:

• a salary depending on qualifications and work experience starting from a minimum of € 3,974 to a maximum of € 5,439 gross per month (salary scale 11)
• excluding 8% holiday allowance and 8.3% end-of-year bonus and participation in a pension scheme for employees. Favorable tax treatment may apply to non-Dutch applicants
• a tenure track appointment for a period of seven years, on the condition of a positive interim evaluation at the end of the third year of employment. The seventh year is to compensate for any ‘life events’ (e.g., parental leave, illness) that might take place during the first six years. Based on a positive final evaluation in the sixth year, you will receive a tenured position at the Associate Professor level. During the appointment as a tenure track assistant professor you will have 50% research time.

We expect you to start by August/September 2023

Application

You are requested to submit:

1. Your motivation letter
2. Your up-to-date curriculum vitae detailing your education, teaching experience, (experimental) software skills, and list of publications
3. At least two letters of recommendation (to be sent by email to [email protected] )
4. Your job market paper; and
5. Teaching evaluations (if available).

You can submit your application until 22 November 11:59pm / before 23 November 2022 Dutch local time (CET) by means of the application form (click on "Apply" below on the advertisement on the university website).

In your motivation letter, please indicate whether you are available for online interviews during the virtual job market of the European Job Market, December 2022, and the virtual job market at ASSA, January 2023.

The University of Groningen strives to be a university in which students and staff are respected and feel at home, regardless of differences in background, experiences, perspectives, and identities. We believe that working on our core values of inclusion and equality are a joint responsibility and we are constructively working on creating a socially safe environment. Diversity among students and staff members enriches academic debate and contributes to the quality of our teaching and research. We therefore invite applicants from underrepresented groups in particular to apply. For more information, see also our diversity policy webpage: https://www.rug.nl/(...)rsity-and-inclusion/

Our selection procedure follows the guidelines of the Recruitment code (NVP): https://www.nvp-hrnetwerk.nl/sollicitatiecode/ and European Commission's European Code of Conduct for recruitment of researchers: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/charter/code

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Information

For information you can contact:

• Prof. Niels Hermes, Head of Department, [email protected]
• Prof. Viola Angelini, Research Director, [email protected]
• Prof. Adriaan Soetevent, Professor of Microeconomics, [email protected]

Please do not use the e-mail address(es) above for applications.

Additional information

• Research Programme
• Department EEF
• GrEELab

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