Senior Research Fellow – ARH-176/2024
Corvinus University of Budapest has over a 100-year-old history and is one of the leading universities in Hungary in Business and Management, Economics, and Social Sciences. We have around 11,500 students, of which, approximately 2,000 are international.
We are located in a stunning UNESCO Heritage building overlooking the Danube River, in the heart of Budapest.
We have been granted accreditation by EFMD and EAPAA and we are the only Hungarian business university to have two international institutional accreditations by AACSB and AMBA. Additionally, we are members of several international networks such as CEMS, BSIS, PRME, and CFA.
We are proud to have won the most sustainably developing university title in UI GreenMetric’s world ranking in 2022.
The Institute of Accounting and Law announces an open call for applications for the Senior Research Fellow position for ☒ 2 years, a definite period that might be extended if both parties agree.
The starting date is the autumn semester of 2025.
Job description and key duties:
Teaching duties:
- Teaching of subjects belonging to the education portfolio of the Institute as defined by the Academic Career Model for PhD and Master students.
Research duties:
- Writing articles in prestigious international and domestic journals in the field of accounting with special emphasis on machine learning and artificial intelligence
- Participating at important international and domestic conferences, building international scientific relationships, getting involved in research projects, active research application activity in the field of accounting, audit with special emphasis on machine learning and artificial intelligence, thus securing the resources of the research projects, and contributing to the internationalization of the Institute and the University.
Service Duties
- Active participation in the professional life of the Institute of Accounting and Law and the University, performing service tasks determined by the head of the Institute.
- Supporting early-career academics at the university, supervising PhD students and students participating in student competitions.
- Mentoring assistant professor colleagues in the Institute.
Qualifications and experience:
- Doctorate obtained at least 3 years ago
- Sufficient teaching experience gained in higher education: minimum 400 contact hours in sum, from which 40 in English language
- Research activity (on an international level) and publication of research results in highly ranked international scientific journals: at least three international papers (written in English) in the research area of the applicant from which at least 1 Q1 or 2 Q2 in the year of publishing (no predatory journal), max. Three authors and the applicant is the first or corresponding author
- Minimum ten independent international Scopus citations
- H-index: minimum: 5 (according to MTMT or equivalent)
- Talent management: Officially included in the supervision of at least one doctoral student (co-supervision, active contribution, and membership in dissertation committee is possible and accepted), or as senior researcher works with a younger researcher or supervisor in the student competition or principal investigator of a project which involves younger colleagues or PhD students with the objective to introduce/improve them to/in research.
- Student evaluation, min. 4.0 (or equivalent, 80%) in the last 3 years
Preferences:
- Student evaluation verifying teaching excellence
- Experience in fulfilling course leader duties
- Verifiable teaching development activity (curriculum development, methodological development
- Research activity with international impact, substantial international citation (verifiable)
- Active role in the activities of doctoral programs and/or mentoring of doctoral students
- Creating student-oriented case studies and books
- Active role in talent management
- Experience in the coordination of research groups with the involvement of doctoral students and young colleagues
- International embeddedness, regular participation in international conferences, membership in international networks
- Participation in the work of professional organizations
- Participation in the editing and/or membership in the editorial staff of domestic and international journals
Documents and certificates to be submitted as part of the application:
- Curriculum Vitae, including a detailed presentation of teaching, research, and service activities and results
- Summary table of achievements (Please fill in the Summary table Excel for associate professor applications)
- Cover letter, including the presentation of future academic plans (educational, teaching development, and research plans)
- References written by at least two reputable leading professors or researchers of the discipline (signed, scanned)
- ☒Research paper/☐Job market paper/☒Working paper/☐Doctoral dissertation
- Scanned copies of the documents verifying the university degree, scientific rank (e.g. PhD degree), and the documents verifying other professional qualifications. (In case scientific ranks are obtained abroad, nostrification will be arranged in the next phase of the selection procedure.)
Remuneration and benefits:
- Favourable conditions regarding research facilities, data access
- Time devoted to research, travel support, etc.
- Employees receive social security benefits and health care
- A competitive salary is accompanied by a 15% bonus in case of outstanding performance
- One-time relocation support (Applicable for applicants moving to Hungary.)
Application procedure:
- Deadline for the submission of the application: 2025. 01. 29.
- Applications have to be submitted by clicking on the APPLICATION button and by following the instructions on the bottom of the webpage.
- Next step of the selection procedure is that the selected applicants will be interviewed by the Academic Tenure and Promotion Committee. The selected applicants will be informed in a later phase about details and timing.
For further information:
Please, feel free to e-mail us in administrative matters at career@uni-corvinus.hu and in academic matters László Péter Lakatos at lakatos@uni-corvinus.hu.