MSCA Host Offer 2023- Applied Economics (Development, Labor, Health, Education, Behavioral and Experimental Economics & Macroeconomics and Finance)

Iñigo Iturbe-Ormaeche, Department of Economics (Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico, FAE), welcomes expressions of interest from Postdoctoral researchers with an excellent track record of research and publication to apply jointly to the European Commission Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme in 2023 (MSCA-PF-2023).

The Department of Economics (Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico, FAE) at the University of Alicante is a research-oriented center. Our aim is to consolidate a human team that sustains the highest quality standards both in research and teaching. We encourage top quality research by providing a modern infrastructure to all faculty and a stimulating environment for interaction. We organize several seminars every week. Our Department is typically ranked among the top-5 Spanish Economics Departments on the basis of research output and is one of the most productive European Departments in per capita terms. The core of the Department consists of about 40 full-time faculty members who got their degrees from top universities from all over the world.

Research fields are quite varied, and cover most areas in modern economic research, but can be classified into three principal areas:

1) Applied Economics (Development, Labor, Health, Education).

2) Behavioral and Experimental Economics.

3) Macroeconomics and Finance.

We have a graduate program in Economics which is an American style full-time program taught entirely in English. The program provides students with a thorough theoretical and practical training in microeconomics, macroeconomics and econometrics, as well as specialization in applied fields. The aim of the program is to prepare students for professional careers in universities, public and private research organizations, international institutions, consultancy and business.

Our department has an excellent track experience in attracting talent. In the last 10 years, the list of new members of the department include both junior and senior researchers. New junior faculty include M. Battaglia (Bocconi U.), C. Cueva (Cambridge U.), L. Franjo (Carlos III Madrid), D. Jimenez (MIT), E. Murard, T. Molina, and E. Jung (Paris School of Economics), J. Andrés (U. Colorado), M. Hernández (Georgetown U.), L. Matiyskova (CERGE-EI), S. Tonini (U. Trento), A. Weiss (U. Mannheim), N. Roig (U. Southern California), H. Redondo (Carlos III Madrid), J. Pinter (U. Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne). 

New senior members include Iván Payá formerly at Lancaster U., Julián Messina, formerly at the Inter-American Development Bank, and Han Bleichrodt, formerly at Erasmus University.

For more details, visit our webpage: http://fae.ua.es/FAEX/

If you are interested in developing with us a project related to the three main research areas above-mentioned, email us a cover letter, your CV, a copy of a recent paper and two letters of recommendation as soon as possible. Questions and applications should be sent to iturbe@ua.es

Warning: Applicants should check eligibility and mobility conditions of MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships, such as:

a) To be eligible should have a PhD at the time of the deadline for applications and must have a maximum of eight years’ experience in research.

b) Comply with mobility rules: Not have resided or carried out your main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the country of the Host for more than 12 months in the 36 months immediately before the call deadline.

HOST INSTITUTION

The University of Alicante (UA) was created in 1979. In 2021 UA educated and trained 31.650 students (only 321 internationals, due to COVID-19 pandemic -usually around 3.000-) who are enrolled in any of the 50 undergraduate and 87 postgraduate programmes: consequently, it is proportionally one of the fastest growing universities in Spain. Thus, the UA employs 4.125 researchers and management staff (47% women), which involves an annual budget of 234 million Euros. Currently, UA is investing near to 68M Euros for boosting frontier research and technology transfer processes via spin off, licensing and international promotion mainly. In 2021, the University received 34.5 million Euros in grants at National, Regional, European level and private R&D and achieved 835 new ones thanks to its 251 research groups hosted in 13 Research Institutes, most of them multidisciplinary-based. Despite its youth, the University of Alicante is already present in the three main university rankings in the world ARWU-FIELD (Shanghai), Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) and Times Higher Education (THE) World University.

Amongst this international activity, UA´s involvement in Research Framework Programmes has been increasing since the 5^th Research Framework Programme (FP) and improving leadership, taking part in 50 projects during FP5 and FP6, 49 during  FP7, 58 during H2020 (4 coordinated by UA) and the start of Horizon Europe makes us think that the upward trend will continue over the next few years.

UA supports the researchers at legal, financial and administrative level in a centralized way, thanks to the International RTD Projects Unit. It has a strong track record in supporting European RTD-consortia in proposal preparation, communication with the funding authorities and project reporting. UA coordinates the European IP Helpdesk and participates in all the IP Helpdesk nodes worldwide and the is Regional Node of Enterprise Europe Network for 14 years now. Furthermore, the UA became EURAXESS contact point through University of Alicante’s Research Talent Attraction Office, intended as a one-stop, centrally managed platform to support researchers wishing to join our University.

With the aim of ensuring and adequate framework for researchers and contributing towards the enhancement of the prestige and attractiveness of the research career within the European Research Area, the UA has been awarded with the HRS4R seal, which reveals the commitment  to the principles of “The European Charter for Researchers” and “The Code of Conduct for the recruitment of Researchers”.