Associate Professor – AÉB-28/2025
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 also proud to have won the title of the most sustainably developing university in UI GreenMetric’s world ranking in 2022.
The Institute of Data Analytics and Information Systems announces an open call for applications for the Associate Professor position (full-time) for indefinite period.
The starting date is autumn semester 2025
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Job description and key duties:
Teaching duties:
- Teaching subjects belonging to the Institute of Data Analytics and Information Systems education portfolio in weekly class hours as defined by the Academic Career Model.
Research duties:
- Writing articles in prestigious international and domestic journals in the fields of artificial intelligence, information management, computer science, data science
- Participating at important international and domestic conferences, building international scientific relationships, getting involved in research projects, active research application activity in the field of data analytics, artificial intelligence, data science, information management, computer science, 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 life of the Institute of Data Analytics and Information Systems 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.
Essential qualifications and experience:
- Doctorate obtained at least 3 years ago
- Sufficient teaching experience gained in a higher education: minimum 400 contact hours in sum, from which 40 in a foreign language (for Hungarians preferably in English/German)
- Research activity (on an international level) and publication of research results in highly ranked international scientific journals: at least 3 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), from the Q1 and Q2 papers the aggregate number of authorship, calculated by the CKK formula should be minimum 1.0 Minimum 10 independent international, Scopus citations
- H-index: minimum: 4 (according to MTMT or equivalent)
- Talent management: Officially included in the supervision of at least 1 doctoral student (co-supervision is possible), or as senior researcher works with a younger researcher, or supervisor in 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.
- In case of External candidates: Student evaluation, min. 4.0 (or equivalent, 80%) in the last 3 years
- In the case of Corvinus candidates: CTE „basic requirements”: a score of at least 21 (on a -24 – +24 scale) and in the overall CTE score the candidate has to be above the bottom 15%
Desirable criteria:
- 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)
- 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 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 associate professor applications)
- Assessment sheet for associate professor applications (Please fill in the Assessment sheet 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
- Scanned copies of the documents verifying the university degree, scientific rank (e.g. PhD degree) and of 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.
- A competitive salary is accompanied by a 15% bonus in case of outstanding performance
- One-time relocation support for applicants moving to Hungary.
- Cafeteria allowance
Application procedure:
- The deadline for the submission of the application: 2025. 04. 03.
- The applications shall be submitted by clicking on the APPLICATION button and by following the instructions at the bottom of the webpage.
For further information:
Please, feel free to e-mail us in administrative matters at career@uni-corvinus.hu and in academic matters Andrea Kő at andrea.ko@uni-corvinus.hu.