[DMANET] (Tenure-Track) Assistant Professor of Game Theory / Operations Research / Social Choice Theory

(Tenure-Track) Assistant Professor of Game Theory / Operations Research / Social Choice Theory

The Department of Quantitative Economics at Maastricht University School of Business and Economics (SBE) offers a tenure track assistant professorship in Game Theory / Operations Research / Social Choice Theory

Job description: The applicant will be appointed as a tenure track assistant professor and contribute to research and teaching within the overlapping areas of game theory, operations research, and social choice theory. Teaching concerns courses in economics, economic theory, and operations research, at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Research falls under the program Economic Theory, Behavior and Computation.

Job qualification: (Almost) Ph.D. in relevant area, affinity with teaching, strong research orientation and background in economic theory and/or operations research. Willingness to work in teams, potential to become a leading researcher in the field.

The Mathematical Economics and Operations Research Group at the Department of Quantitative Economics has a strong research orientation and record in the fields of game theory, mechanism design and social choice theory, including algorithmic and computational aspects. The members teach the undergraduate and graduate courses in these fields in the bachelor and masters programs in econometrics, business and economics at SBE.

Besides the strong focus on research, the group also aims to provide excellent education. The student population at SBE is international, with approximately 60% of students from outside of the Netherlands. All teaching is in the English language. Many of the activities of the group are performed in teams, and the group tries to foster such teamwork as much as possible.

Conditions of employment: The Assistant professor position is initially offered for a three-year period and, subject to a positive evaluation, extended by another three years, with the possibility of tenure thereafter.

Salary is competitive, depending on qualifications and work experience, between € 3.259,00 and € 5.070,00 per month for a fulltime assistant professorship (12 monthly payments. On top of this, there is an 8% holiday allowance. Non-Dutch applicants could be eligible for a favorable tax treatment (30% rule).

Applications: Applications should be received not later than November 7, 2014. They should include a curriculum vitae and copies of some written work. Two letters of reference, assessing the applicant's research potential and personality, should be sent independently by the referees. Applications can, preferably, be sent by e-mail to: sbe@maastrichtuniversity.nl

(with cc to h.peters@maastrichtuniversity.nl and r.muller@maastrichtuniversity.nl) or to: Maastricht University School of Business and Economics, Personnel Department, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD, Maastricht, The Netherlands, and refer to vacancy AT2014.186 on both letter and envelope.

For further information on the position you may contact: Prof.dr. H.J.M. Peters at h.peters@maastrichtuniversity.nl, tel. + 31 43 388 3288 or Prof. dr. R. Müller at r.muller@maastrichtuniversity.nl, tel. + 31 43 388 3799.

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