International Scouting for Tenured Positions 2011 - First edition (closed on March 3, 2011)

Profiles

AREA: Management Science

Details: We will consider highly qualified candidates in management science, discrete mathematics, statistical physics, and related fields. Candidates must have an excellent record of high-impact international publications. They should have demonstrated remarkable ability in leading research groups, as well as experience in conducting/coordinating international projects. Preference will be given to candidates active in the following fields: analysis and modeling of the structure and evolution of complex business and industrial systems. Research Area: Economics and Institutional Change

AREA: Statistical Physics, Complex Systems

Details: We will consider highly qualified candidates in statistical physics and those working at the intersection between statistical physics, discrete mathematics, and computer science. Candidates must have an excellent record of high-impact international publications. They should have demonstrated remarkable ability in leading research groups, as well as experience in conducting/coordinating international projects. Preference will be given to candidates active in the following fields: theory, analysis and modeling of complex systems and applications of statistical physics to computer science, economics, social and biological systems; graph theory and random structures and analysis and modeling of complex networks. Research Area: Computer Science and Applications

AREA: Humanities

Details: We will consider highly qualified candidates in the field of ancient classical art and culture, with an interest in the socio-political aspects of cultural phenomena and in their persistence in different civilizations. Strong interdisciplinarity is required, together with the ability to develop scientific interactions with scholars in political science, political history and political economy, as well as in computer science applied to cultural domains. The capacity to organize and coordinate multidisciplinary research projects is required. Candidates must have excellent research and teaching skills and demonstrated ability to produce scholarly work persistently and at the highest level. Research Area: Economics and Institutional Change

AREA: Economics

Details: We will consider highly qualified candidates in economics, with preference given to candidates active in: applied economics; microeconometrics; macroeconomics and macroeconomic policy; technological change and growth. Candidates must have a well-established and recognized record of international publications. Research Area: Economics and Institutional Change

AREA: Computer Science

Details: We will consider candidates in computer science and those working at the intersection between computer science, discrete mathematics, information theory, computer engineering, with an excellent record of high-impact international publications. Candidates should have demonstrated remarkable ability in leading research groups, as well as experience in conducting/coordinating international projects. Preference will be given to candidates active in one or more of the following fields: languages, methods, tools and algorithms for the analysis and modeling of dynamical and structural properties of IT systems, with emphasis on one or more of the following themes: Embedded Systems (autonomous and intelligent control of complex physical systems); Service Oriented Architectures (services for interactions over wide area networks); Computer Networks (dynamical and structural properties, performance evaluation); Computational Structures (development of high performance, reliable, and secure computing systems); Computational Networks (for social and artificial systems); Decentralized Information Environments (languages and technologies to integrate data and models across global networks); and Information Systems (text/data/concept mining and their analysis). Research Area: Computer Science and Applications

AREA: Political Science, Political History

Details: We will consider candidates in political science and in political history. Preference will be given to:

  • Candidates with a well-established and recognized record of international publications in the area of public policy analysis and evaluation, with particular emphasis on quantitative public policy evaluation. Candidates must have excellent research and teaching skills, and demonstrated ability to produce scholarly work persistently and at the highest level.
  • Candidates with a well-established and recognized record of international publications in the area of political history, with particular reference to comparative history of European political institutions and processes of institutional change in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Candidates must have excellent research and teaching skills, and demonstrated ability to produce scholarly work persistently and at the highest level. Research Area: Economics and Institutional Change