MSCA-PF 2023: Consumer Behaviour & Marketing Management

Are you a young postdoc focused on topics such as consumer behaviour, marketing management, e-commerce or smartphone use? Come to Brno via MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship and conduct your research under the supervision of Prateek Kalia, one of our leading experts in the field and the author of the novel smartphone use classification metric called Cellulographics©, and his team.

The Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University, is currently looking for postdocs who would like to apply for Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions – Postdoctoral Fellowship in the 2023 call. Join our prestigious team of experts and gain valuable research experience! More information about the call and topics can be found here.

Only in the Czech Republic, your research proposal will have a triple chance of getting funded. First, there is the European funding via Horizon Europe – the MSCA-PF programme. The projects which gain the score of 93 percent or higher will be accepted. However, projects which receive a mark of 70 percent or higher will automatically be eligible for funding from the Czech Structural Funds. This is usually achieved by 80 percent of all applicants! The third option is to apply for ERA Fellowships.

What’s in it for you?

• Research experience aiming at top rated publications
• Collaboration with top scientists on projects in the field of consumer behaviour and marketing management
• Background and support of a strong organization and staff experienced in administering MSCA projects
• MSCA-PF super gross salary of approximately 5000 € per month
• Workshops focused on writing successful research proposals and other topics
• Opportunity to further participate in interesting international projects

Who are we looking for?

• Young researchers who completed their PhD before 13^th September 2023 and not longer than 8 years ago
• Candidates who have not resided in the Czech Republic for more than 12 months during the last 3 years at the time of the deadline (13^th September 2023)

Supervisor

During your stay, you will be supervised by Prateek Kalia, one of our leading experts in the field of consumer behaviour. His research concentrates on the intersection of consumer behavior and technology with relevance to marketing management. Especially he is interested in electronic commerce with a particular focus on digital retail, electronic service quality, cyberpsychology, human-computer interactions, and smartphone use. He is very well known for his novel smartphone user classification metrics called Cellulographics© and currently working on its integration into the above-mentioned topics. Methodologically, he has published quite extensively using second-generation statistical techniques such as structural equational modeling. His research appears in journals such as the International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Computers in Human Behavior, Journal of Innovation & Knowledge, and European Management Journal.

Sounds interesting? If so, please submit the following documents to Jana Sosnová (Jana.Sosnova@econ.muni.cz) no later than on 19 March 2023:

• CV
• Annotation of your project (approx. half a page long)
• List of publications covering the last 5 years

Please, do not hesitate to reach out for more information.