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Research Professor – AÉB-11/2025

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 Entrepreneurship and Innovation announces an open call for applications for the part-time Research Professor position for 3 years definite period.

The starting date is autumn semester 2025.

Job description and key duties:

Teaching duties:

  • Teaching of subjects belonging to the education portfolio of the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in weekly class hours as defined by the Academic Career Model.

Research duties:

  • Writing articles in prestigious international and domestic journal in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation management,
  • Participating at important international and domestic conferences, building international scientific relationships, getting involved in research projects, active research application activity in the field of innovation management, open innovation, IT and innovation, thus securing the resources of the research projects and contributing to the internationalisation of the Institute and the University.

Service duties

  • Active participation in the professional public life of the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation and the University, performing service tasks determined by the head of the institute.
  • Supporting early-career academics at the university, including supervising PhD students as well as students participating in student competition.
  • Mentoring assistant professor and associate professor colleagues in the institute.

Essential qualifications and experience:

Applicants must:

  • have a PhD degree;
  • have teaching-research experience gained in higher education or research experience acquired at a research centre;
  • be an internationally recognized representative of the given field of science with outstanding scientific research work;
  • have extensive publication track record in highly ranked journals (Q1, Q2) in the area of innovation management especially, but not exclusively in English language;
  • have a workshop-creating effect, which is confirmed by the management of research workshops,
  • have achievements in educating future generations of scientists proven by track record of successful PhD supervision in any relevant discipline
  • have proven capability of managing the attainment of scientific tasks, coordinating and managing the activities of research groups;
  • have experience in representation of his/her field of science, the University and the country in domestic and/or international scientific public life; eg. have membership at relevant national and international scientific organisations
  • demonstrate experience in winning research grants and managing research grant programmes.

Desirable experience:

  • Research activity with international impact, substantial international citation (verifiable)
  • Active role in the activities of doctoral programs and/or mentoring of doctoral students
  • Active role in talent management
  • Experience in the coordination of research groups with the involvement of doctoral students and young colleagues
  • Regular participation in international conferences, membership in international networks
  • Participation in the work of professional organisations
  • 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 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)
  • Scanned copies of the documents verifying the university degree, scientific rank (eg. PhD degree) and of the documents verifying other professional qualifications. (In case of scientific ranks obtained abroad, the 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 15% bonus in case of outstanding performance
  • One time relocation support for candidates moving to Hungary
  • Additional benefits via ’Cafeteria’ allowance

Application procedure:

  • The deadline for the submission of the application: 2025. 03. 31.
  • The applications shall be submitted by clicking on the APPLY HERE button and by following the instructions at the bottom of the webpage.
  • The 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 career@uni-corvinus.hu and in academic matters dr. Attila Virag at attila.virag@uni-corvinus.hu.

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