The applicant contributes to research and teaching in finance. The department has strong research groups and related teaching in sustainable finance, behavioral finance, real estate, financial econometrics, asset pricing, and banking. Postgraduate education is given at the MBA level and on our executive leadership programmes. Administrative duties are limited.

(Almost) Ph.D. in a relevant area, strong research orientation, affinity with teaching, willingness to work in teams, in a collegial environment.

Fixed-term contract: 18 months.

We offer a position (1.0 FTE) as Assistant Professor (universitair docent), starting as soon as possible. Upon satisfactory performance in the one and a half year probationary period, this initially 18 months position will become permanent.

We offer a salary as stipulated in the Collective Labour Agreement of the Dutch Universities. Within this framework, we offer a competitive salary with a minimum of € 3,974 and a maximum of € 6.181 per month (depending on your experience scale 11/12) for a full-time position of 38 hours/week. On top of this, there is an annual holiday allowance (8% of annual income) and an annual end-of-year bonus (8.3% of annual income). 

Applicants from outside The Netherlands may be eligible for the so-called 30% ruling, a tax cut for highly skilled migrants that applies for a maximum of five years. If you are moving to Maastricht from more than 40 kilometers away, you may qualify for a one-time reimbursement of your relocation costs.

The terms of employment of Maastricht University are set out in the Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities (CAO). Furthermore, local UM provisions also apply. For more information look at the website www.maastrichtuniversity.nl > About UM > Working at UM.

Maastricht University

Maastricht University is renowned for its unique, innovative, problem-based learning system, which is characterized by a small-scale and student-oriented approach. Research at UM is characterized by a multidisciplinary and thematic approach, and is concentrated in research institutes and schools. Maastricht University has around 22,000 students and about 5,000 employees. Reflecting the university's strong international profile, a fair amount of both students and staff are from abroad. The university hosts 6 faculties: Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Faculty of Law, School of Business and Economics, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience. For more information, visit www.maastrichtuniversity.nl.

The Maastricht Finance Group

We pride ourselves in being an international, diverse and collegial group of scholars with a strong research orientation, mainly in the field of empirical finance. Articles have been published in the international top journals (for example American Economic Review, Review of Financial Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, Management Science, etc.). The Finance Group is very active in the main scientific networks in Finance, and has been the host of some of its main conferences. The annual conferences of the Financial Management Association (2014), European Finance Association (2004), the European Financial management Association (1994) and the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (1998) are examples of this. Besides the strong focus on research, the group also aims to provide the best Finance education possible, and has consistent top ratings in the school. The student population in Finance is international, with approximately 75% of students from outside of the Netherlands. Teaching is student oriented focussing on the principles of Problem Based Learning. Education is in English. Many of the activities of the group are performed in teams, and the group tries to foster such teamwork as much as possible.