The Institute for Multidisciplinary Research in Quantitative Modelling and Analysis (IMMAQ), UCLouvain, informs you of the launch of the call "Move In" Post-doc Fellowships 2019 (FSR). These fellowships – for a period of 12 to 24 months – target international highly-qualified postdoctoral researchers.
Successful candidates will have a strong CV. They are expected to perform high quality research and produce academic papers suitable to be published in leading academic journals. They will also participate to the research activities organized at IMMAQ.
Research in IMMAQ is organized around the following broad areas:
- Actuarial Sciences
- Economics
- Econometrics
- Finance
- Operations Research
- Quantitative Geography
- Statistics and Biostatistics
Examples of specific topics can be found below.
Eligibility conditions
Applicants must:
- Hold a doctoral degree (PhD);
- Have maximum 5 years of postdoctoral experience;
- Be in mobility condition, i.e. not having resided nor carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Belgium for more than 12 months over the last 3 years
- Commit to apply in January to the F.R.S.-FNRS Mandate for Postdoctoral Researcher (CR)
Details on the eligibility criteria appear in the attached guide for applicants.
How to apply
The application for a postdoctoral fellowship needs to be supported by the research center in which the applicant intends to work (CORE, IRES, ISBA, or LFIN). Interested candidates are invited to follow this procedure:
- No later than Thursday, September 20, 2018: (i) complete the first section of the application form (Curriculum Vitae) and (ii) prepare a preliminary research project (1-2 pages presenting the objectives and methodologies of the project as well as a title and the 5 most representative keywords). This should be sent by email to: core-fellows@uclouvain.be
- By Thursday, September 27, 2018: shortlisted candidates will be notified by IMMAQ and move on to the next stage to prepare the full proposal with the support of IMMAQ.
- Monday, October 15, 2018: deadline for submission of full proposals. This should be sent to: crec-adre@uclouvain.be.
If you have any question about the application procedure do not hesitate to contact Dr. Ela Callorda Fossati.
Examples of themes of interest for IMMAQ
Economics
- Fiscal policy, monetary policy, government debt management
- Macroeconomic adjustment in small commodity producing countries
- The economics of deep trade agreements
- Does international trade raise the economic risk faced by firms and employees?
- Globalization and firm-level innovation in developing countries
- The economics of digitization, economics of platforms
- The interaction of behavioral economics and industrial organization
- Social and economic networks
- Impact evaluation of development and labor market interventions
- Economics of ageing: the barriers to employment beyond the age of 50; productivity vs dependency
- Comparative development and marriage institutions
- Political regimes, conflict and demographic dynamics
- Urban development in pre-industrial economies
- Theory and empirics of poverty and social exclusion
- Evaluation of social impact of social enterprises
- Mission drift of social enterprises
- Role of social enterprises in the social and ecological transition (e.g. commons, collaborative economy, functional economy)
Econometrics
- Stochastic complex systems and stochastic computations for spatial-temporal data
Finance
- Hedging and pricing of financial derivatives under uncertainty
- Modelling of financial contagion with Hawkes and switching processes
- Macro Finance, term structure of interest rates, forecasting
- Dynamic modeling of stochastic recovery rates with application to credit risk
- Corporate finance, labor economics and investment
- Order placement strategies and retail Investors
Operations Research
- Convex optimization
- Integer programming approaches for large-scale network pricing and design problems
- The chip-firing game on graphs: economic implications and integer programming approaches
- Application of operations research in power system operations and electricity market analysis, with a specific focus on sustainable growth through demand response and renewable energy integration
- Energy network regulation, efficiency analysis (models and methods, both parametrics and non-parametrics)
- Supply chain and international logistics modelling
Quantitative Geography
- Urban landscape morphometrics; exploring and visualizing spatial big data
Statistics and Biostatistics
- Models and extreme value analysis
- Multi-omics data integration in personnalized medicine
This list is of course non exhaustive.