Academic environmentThe University of Namur welcomes near 7.000 students every year to its 60 bachelor, master, and doctoral study programs. Of the University’s 1.200 employees, more than 700 actively contribute to research, through 64 research laboratories and centers. The Faculty of economics, social sciences and business administration accounts for near 1400 students and 170 staff members, among whom 85 academic and 70 scientific members. The Faculty offers full-time and part-time bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in management and economics. It also organises programs in political sciences and communication studies. Its members undertake research in various fields of expertise.
The candidate will be part of the
Department of Business Administration. The Department of Business Administration has 60 full- and part-time academic and research staff. The Department offers bachelor, master, and doctoral programs, with a particular focus on topics in finance, services management, marketing, and information and operations management. Research is organized through five research centers, and concentrates on the said topics. The Department actively collaborates with many national and international institutions and companies, through research projects, seminars, consultancy and student internships.The Center for Research in Finance and Management (CeReFiM), one of the components of the DeFIPP Research Institute (Development, Finance & Public Policies), stands as one of the centers associated with the Department of Business Administration. CeReFiM's research is mainly empirical and revolves around a wide range of topics covering, among others, financial econometrics (e.g., volatility, systemic risk, contagion), central banking (communication policies, monetary policy transmission), macrofinance (fiscal policy, DSGE models), corporate finance (venture capital, private equity) and more recently sustainable finance (impact investing, micro-finance). The center includes 8 academics and 7 PhD students. The dynamism of the center has materialized in recent years through several publications in leading journals such as the
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the
Journal of Banking and Finance or the
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control and through the organization of leading seminars in partnership with the various Belgian universities and the National Bank of Belgium.
Job descriptionThe position mainly involves teaching and research duties. Teaching (in the field of finance, in a broad sense) will be carried out within the Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes. Research (approximately 50% of the work time associated with the position) will be undertaken in finance within the CeReFiM research center. The candidate will also participate to community service tasks and in particular to a thinking group on the impact of Transition on management practice in general and in the field of finance in particular.
Requirements
The applicant holds or will hold by the end of June 2018 (or by the end of September 2018 with in that case a starting date on October 1st, 2018) a Master’s degree in Business Administration, Management or in Economics (or equivalent), and is expected to have excelled in his/her curriculum (degree obtained with honours). S/he has a good command of spoken and written French and English. S/he must display excellent teaching skills. S/he wants and is able to develop an original research programme likely to lead to a doctoral degree in Economics and Management supervised by a member of the Department of Business Administration.
Applications
The application form can be downloaded from the University of Namur website (
http://www.unamur.be/universite/jobs/). The filled out form (in PDF format) should be returned
before August 05, 2018 by e-mail to Prof. Pietro ZIDDA, Head of the Department of Business Administration (
pietro.zidda@unamur.be), with a curriculum vitae, a short description in English of a future or past research (e.g., master’s thesis) and a motivation letter for the position, which includes teaching and research duties. Nominated candidates will be invited to a meeting with the members of the selection committee within one month of the deadline for submission of applications. More details will be announced later.
Additional informationProf. Pietro ZIDDA (Head of the Business Administration Department), +32 81 724883,
pietro.zidda@unamur.beProf. Jean-Yves GNABO (Director of CeReFIM), +32 81 724902,
jean-yves.gnabo@unamur.beAll practical information needed by foreign candidates can be obtained from the website of the European researchers’ mobility portal (EURAXESS):
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/.
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