Professor of Finance

Work assignments 

The Department of Management and Engineering (IEI) at Linköping University has extensive activities in finance, with research, postgraduate education, and undergraduate education in three different divisions: Business Administration and Economics at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Production Economics at the Faculty of Science and Engineering. The Division of Business Administration conducts research and provides undergraduate and postgraduate education in three areas: Marketing, Strategy and Organization, and Accounting and Finance. This position is in the Division of Business Administration and within the Unit for Accounting and Finance, but the assignment spans all three divisions at IEI.

Research is a significant part of the position, where the holder of the position as Professor of Finance, in the role of research leader, is expected to develop, drive, and lead research at a high international level within the finance area broadly and more specifically within financial economics, including corporate finance and valuation. The research is conducted at the division and in collaboration with other teachers and researchers active in finance. In addition to conducting your own research, a central task for this position is to attract external funding for doctoral students, postdocs, and other colleagues. An important part of the position is to lead the work of initially building up and then further developing a center formation within financial economics, where the department’s research and teaching in finance are linked together.

You are active in the research community, participate in the division's activities such as seminars and workshops, participate in research projects, communicate results through academic publications and help attract external research funding.

As a Professor of Finance, you will teach at an advanced level in Swedish and English and supervise students in financial economics. The teaching part of the position includes course design and course responsibility. 

You contribute actively to the university's development work. We would like you to show interest in and collaborate with local society. The collaboration assignment applies both in educational and research contexts. In the context of education, the main objective is to ensure the relevance of education to working life and to create the conditions for lifelong learning. In the context of research, the collaboration assignment applies mainly through disseminating, making available and utilising research.

Interest in administration and management tasks that build on collaboration between different units within academia and with industry and society is important for the position.

Your work includes monitoring developments nationally and internationally within your field of study and other societal developments that are important to your work.

You are flexible and have the ability to move between different types of pedagogical and scientific contexts. You share knowledge and contribute to the working group’s professional development, collegial ways of working and social community. The fact that you are present and active is something we see as self-evident in order to ensure that you are able to perform your duties in an optimum way and enjoy your working community. 

Qualifications

We are looking for a candidate who has demonstrated both academic and pedagogical excellence.

For this employment particular attention is paid to scientific excellence, second to pedagogical excellence and other proficiencies.

In terms of scientific excellence, the following will be assessed:

• A requirement for the position is documented scientific excellence at a high international level in financial economics.
• A requirement for the position is publication in recognized journals and conferences in the field.
• A particular merit is the ability to develop a dynamic research environment.
• A particular merit for the position is documented ability to attract national and international research grants.
• A particular merit is also the ability to lead research grant applications and research programs involving multiple collaborators.
• A merit for the position is documented scientific excellence in corporate finance and valuation.

In terms of pedagogical excellence, the following will be assessed:

• A requirement for the position is documented pedagogical excellence in teaching and supervision at the undergraduate, advanced, and postgraduate levels in finance.
• A requirement for the position is having supervised doctoral students up to their dissertation defense.
• A particular merit is documented pedagogical excellence regarding course responsibility and course design.

Other proficiencies that will be assessed for this position:

• A requirement for the position is good collaboration skills and the ability to contribute to developing the workgroup, collegial working methods, and social community.
• A particular merit is good leadership ability, which leads and motivates other researchers, coordinates groups, and creates engagement.
• A particular merit for the position is documented ability to collaborate with the surrounding society.

Since teaching and research are conducted in English and Swedish, you must demonstrate the ability to teach and conduct research in English. Additionally, it is desirable that you can teach and conduct research in Swedish within two years.

The workplace

You can read about the the Department of Managenment and Engineering here: https://liu.se/en/organisation/liu/iei

More information about the Division of Business Administration is to be found here: https://liu.se/en/organisation/liu/iei/fek

The employment

This employment is permanent, full-time. Starting date by agreement.

For more information on eligibility requirements, assessment criteria and recruitment procedures for teachers, see Linköping University’s rules of appointment. 
Linköping University’s rules of appointment.

Background screening may come to be carried out before any decision on employment is made.

Salary and employment benefits

The university applies individual salaries.

More information about employee benefits is available here.

Union representatives

Information about union representatives, see Help for applicants.

Application procedure

Apply for the position by clicking the “Apply” button below. Your application must be received no later than 28 of Februari 2025. 
 
Applications and documents received after the date above will not be considered. 
 
Please attach your selected research publications electronically, in pdf or word format, in the application template. Research publications, e.g. monographs, which cannot be sent electronically should be sent in three sets by mail to the University Registrar at Linköping University, University Registrar, S-581 83 Linköping, Sweden. The publications must be received by Linköping University no later than the deadline for application. 

Please note that printed publications will not be returned. They will be archived at Linköping University. 
 
In the event of a discrepancy between the English translation of the job announcement and the Swedish original, the Swedish version shall take precedent.