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Call for Applications

University of Mannheim, Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences, Germany
PhD in Finance 

Join our online information event with the chance to talk to the program directors on December 13. Register under: https://www.uni-mannheim.de/gess/csdb-info-session/

📌 Overview:

• APPLY NOW: Fully-funded PhD in 8 doctoral programs in business and economics
• Early Application Deadline: 15 January 2024
• Application Deadline: 31. March 2024
• Program Start: September 2024
• Where? Mannheim, Germany

The Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences (GESS) at the University of Mannheim offers excellent opportunities for the most qualified students in business and economics with strong quantitative skills and enthusiasm for research to pursue a full-time PhD Program at the Center for Doctoral Studies in Business (CDSB) or Center for Doctoral Studies in Economics (CDSE) starting in September 2024.

The internationally competitive doctoral programs enrols up to 40 students each year with 40% international students in the student body.

Benefit from an internationally recognized interdisciplinary teaching and training concept across the boundaries of the economic and social sciences according to your research interests, which will lay the foundation for a successful research career. Conduct research in a stimulating research environment across the program disciplines. Our courses are taught by distinguished/outstanding and dedicated faculty members. Our excellent libraries will support you with your research.

Doctoral Degree in Finance

Our program in Finance covers research fields such as Asset Pricing and Asset Management, Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance, Behavioral Finance, Market Microstructure, and Climate Finance. It provides students with core competencies in analytical and empirical research methods. In addition, students are equipped with a thorough knowledge of modern tools from areas such as machine learning and NLP, which have recently become more important in our field, while offering links to other academic disciplines. Our faculty members regularly publish in the leading international journals. We offer access to a large array of databases that are vital for your empirical research. We encourage and support research visits abroad and our students receive intensive preparation for the academic job market.  We have an established record of successfully placing our graduates at top schools around the world.

Discover GESS

• All PhD programs in English.
• Modern doctoral program with a structured course program and skills courses in teaching, academic writing, and presenting.
• Guaranteed funding for the duration of the program.
• Stimulating research environment.
• Work with the outstanding faculty of our triple accredited Business School (AACSB, EQUIS, AMBA) that persistently publishes in the top academic journals.
• Gain new insights from research stays with partner universities worldwide.
• Enjoy access to major databases and excellent libraries.
• Modern offices and equipment.
• Boost your career options with a professional job market training.
• No tuition fees – government funded first-class education.

The research findings of our students and graduates are regularly published in leading journals of the fields. Our graduates pursue careers both in academia and the private sector, taking up professorships, assistant professorships, and postdoctoral positions at internationally renowned academic institutions and research positions at public institutions (government, central banks, international organizations). Excellent past placements include Boston College, Columbia University, Cornell University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Indiana University Bloomington, Illinois State University, Princeton University, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, UC Berkeley, University of Chicago,  UT Austin, Yale University, University of Cambridge, University College London, University of Oxford, Bocconi University, Aalto University, Aarhus University, Erasmus University Rotterdam, NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Tilburg University, Toulouse School of Economics, International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank, Deutsche Bundesbank, OECD, European Commission.

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS

Application Deadline: 31 March 2024.

For early offers we provide an early application deadline: 15 January 2024. Candidates that are not accepted in the early round will be reconsidered with all other applications after the final deadline of 31 March.

For more information on our programs and application requirements, please visit the website https://www.uni-mannheim.de/gess/apply or contact the doctoral office at gess.office@uni-mannheim.de.

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Nietert                                                                                                                                  +49 6421 28-23726                                                                                                                               nietert@wiwi.uni-marburg.de

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80 – 100% / 4 years / Bern / Tentative start on 1 August 2024

To start with, here are some of our strong points

• An almost unbelievably large variety of themes and topics and a great mix of research and teaching.
• Plenty of contact with eager young people from all over the world who are set on achieving things.
• Curiosity is what we want, oodles of it. Plus, lots of independence and autonomy.
• Responsibility in hugely exciting projects for the future attracting attention beyond the professional world.
• Focus on research that is geared towards practical orientation and the education of committed people rather than mere profit maximisation.

• And here are even more good reasons to opt for BFH

What you’ll be doing here

• Work on exciting research and innovation projects focused on data science, AI and ML applications in finance together with industry and academic expects from Switzerland and abroad.
• Active contribution in the acquisition of third-party funding for research projects with the freedom to lead research proposals for various funding schemes.
• Offer teaching support (Lectures, Bachelor- and Mastertheses) for the department group Data Science, Finance, Accounting, and Tax.
• Support the lead of a large international research networks (through EU projects, COST Actions and research collaborations) including over 300 researchers from >50 countries.
• Support the (nominated) MSCA Doctoral Network on Digital Finance, providing a European-wide doctorate in Digital Finance, with leading institutions such as the European Central Bank.

What you’ll bring with you

• Very good PhD degree in business/economics or a related field (e.g. Statistics, Mathematics, Industrial Engineering, Computer Science) or you are about to complete.
• High affinity for academic and applied research preferably documented through publications and working papers.
• Experience or a strong interest in quantitative empirical work and very good working knowledge in the application of statistical methods (Stata, R, Python).
• Experience and willingness to teach at Bachelor and Master level.
• Excellent command of written and spoken English; preferably willingness to teach classes in German.

• Apply now

Business School

In the Business School, we offer an education with a clear practical emphasis for the digital change-makers of the future in the economy and society. Content we love to engage with includes topics such as New Work, digital business or public sector transformation.

Doing something meaningful in a fascinating environment and with an outlook to the future: a job at Bern University of Applied Sciences makes perfect sense. We’re busy researching, developing and virtually bending our minds to come up with practical solutions for business, culture and people in Bern, in Switzerland and all over the world. Apart from being incredibly interesting, this is also a lot of fun, and we get to learn a lot as well. This cutting-edge knowledge benefits all who are studying here or doing part-time continuing education courses. We have great plans for the future: We join forces to make an effective contribution to a sustainable, digitally literate and health-conscious society. This is how we create great prospects for your future work with us.

I’ll be your guide through the application procedure
Petra Kielmann
HR Consultant
P +41 31 848 65 79

For job-specific queries
Christian Hopp
Leiter Institut Applied Data Science und Finance
T +41 31 848 41 28