Open Call for Expressions of Interest for 4 tenure-track Assistant Professor positions
Assistant professor / lecturer
44207 EUR
The starting gross salary for a tenure track Assistant Professor in public Italian universities is € 44.207.
The severance pay is equal to one month of gross salary for each year of employment. As employer, the Sant’Anna School pays contributions to both the Italian social security and the Italian public health systems. Individuals who have conducted at least two years of research abroad may also qualify for a temporary reduced taxation regime (pursuant art. 44 of Italian Law 78/2010, taxation may be restricted to 10% of their Italian income for a period ranging from 5 to 12 years, depending on their family status).
The MUR-funded Department of Excellence L’EMbeDS is seeking expressions of interest concerning four tenure-track Assistant Professor positions, which we expect to fill in the near future through either public competitions or direct appointments (chiamate dirette), according to Italian Law. This call is designed to explore potential candidates and their interest in joining our community and precedes the potential formal opening of any position.
Candidates will either be experts in methodology (e.g., statisticians, computer scientists, modellers) or domain experts (e.g., economists, management scholars, law scholars).
Interested individuals should submit their expressions of interest to the email address scouting@santannapisa.it, indicating the code RR–LEMBEDS.
The call is open for at least one year with further steps of evaluation on 12/06/2023, 20/09/2023, 20/12/2023, 20/03/2024.
Profiles sought
The four positions will, respectively, privilege economic, managerial, legal, and methodological foci. L’EMbeDS will build upon an interdisciplinary scaffold, enabling research in core domain themes and, transversally to the themes, spurring innovation in methodological tools and governance frameworks. Candidates will have expertise and interests across one or, ideally, more elements of such scaffold.
Examples of relevant domain themes include: - Economies as evolving complex systems at the micro and macro levels; - Industrial dynamics, competitiveness and financial markets; - Economics and management of innovation, the 4th industrial revolution, studies of the sources and drivers of science, technology and innovation and their relation with the evolution of socio-economic structures and social relations; - Purpose-driven organizations, knowledge transfer and the impact of research activities; - Environmental and economic sustainability, including studies of the impacts of climate change on growth, inequalities, financial systems, housing markets, etc., and the study of circular economies; - Social and economic sustainability, including studies of healthcare systems and their management, medical technologies, and evolving health policy and health systems challenges; - Behavioral economics, public policy and public management; - Behavioral finance; - Behavioral law; - Regulatory innovation in data governance and data driven technologies; - Markets design and integration for increased resilience and efficiency.
Examples of relevant methodological tools include: - Complexity modelling, including non-linear, dynamical and chaotic systems; - Modelling and statistical techniques for networks (formation and evolution); - Techniques for the design, implementation and statistical analysis of large agent-based simulations. - Learning models, including online learning and online convex optimization; - Algorithms for data retrieval, extraction and integration, e.g., scraping, text and natural language processing, geoanalytics, linkage techniques and multiresolution data integration; - Systems analysis and verification; - Statistics and machine learning techniques for large, high-dimensional and structured data, including feature selection and screening, spatio-temporal and functional data analysis, process mining, and latent structure techniques; - Robustness, techniques for stability assessment and result replicability; - Synthetic and augmented data generation techniques; - Causality, causal inference and non-parametric techniques; - Biostatistics and statistical techniques for the assessment of health technologies, health services and outcomes.
Examples of relevant governance frameworks include: - Human-centered Artificial Intelligence, fundamental rights and fundamentalright compliant innovation; - EU legislative frameworks (AI Act, DA, DGA) and EU common data spaces for global sharing; - Opportunities and challenges of Open Science and Open Culture; - Adjudication and decision making in the era of Big Data and AI; - Intellectual Property, contracts and liability rules for data-driven innovation. - Data governance in digital markets and platforms; competition, regulation and consumer protection in data driven markets; - Digital citizenship, digitalization of the public administration, public services and society; - Cybersecurity and its regulatory and legal challenges.
We are looking for scholars who, while being in the early stages of their academic career, show an upward trajectory and clear leadership potential. In addition to expertise and interests as described above, ideal candidates will therefore have a record of:
- high-level scientific publications (e.g., ANVUR A-ranked, ISI and/or Scopusindexed journals; top national and international book publishers);
- contributions to externally funded research projects at the national and European level;
- research abroad and/or participation to international research teams;
- activities that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries, as to be able to collaborate with the diverse L’EMbeDS community
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