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Job Openings 2009

In fall 2008 IMT launched the fourth international call for application for Assistant Professor and Post-Doctoral Fellow in the fields of Economics, Political Sciences and Computer Science and Engineering.

Applications received were 556 in total, divided as follow:

Economics: 296
Political Sciences: 135
Computer Science and Engineering: 125

Nearly 50 interviews was carried out for the selection in Economics at the ASSA meetings in San Francisco (January 3-5, 2009), at the "Royal Economic Society PhD Presentation Meeting" held at the London School of Economics (January 16-17, 2009) and at IMT. Nearly 20 candidates were interviewed at IMT for the selections in Political Sciences and 11 candidates were interviewed at IMT headquarter for the selections in Computer Science and Engineering.

Short listed candidates were then invited to present their job market papers at an open seminars as required by the IMT recruitment procedure:

Display the Program of the Job Market Seminars in Economics
Display the Program of the Job Market Seminars in Political Sciences
Display the Program of the Job Market Seminars in Computer Science

Finally, the candidates were ranked according to their Job Market presentation, profile, experience and reference letters.

Selection Outcomes:

Out of the total of the 556 applications received

185 (33%) arrived from candidates with a Ph.D obtained in a European country different from Italy
146 (26%) arrived from candidates with Ph.D. in the United States
80 (15%) arrived from candidates with Ph.D. obtained in Italy
72 applications arrived from Italian candidates with a Ph.D. obtained abroad.

Once more the analysis of the received applications demonstrates the capacity to attract qualified human capital to IMT.

The numerous applications from Italian citizens who completed their Ph.D. study abroad (49% of the Italian applicants) confirm the conclusions of the calls of the previous year, affirming a "diaspora" problem. These applications clearly indicate the attempts of Italian researchers to return in their home country.

At the end of the selections 8 new researchers (5 Assistant Professors and 3 Post-doctoral Fellows) has been hired by IMT. The new IMT researchers are:

2 Italian citizens with a Ph.D. obtained abroad: one was awarded his Ph.D. in the Philosophy of Science at the University of Bristol, U.K. while the other one obtained his Ph.D. in Political Science at the Trinity College Dublin and was Post-doc at the Alexander Hamilton Centre for Political Economy at the New York University, NY;
2 Americans with a Ph.D. in Political Science obtained at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at the California Institute of Technology;
1 Spanish with the Ph.D. obtained at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg
3 Italians with a Ph.D. obtained in Italy

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Job Openings 2008

In the end of 2007, thanks to a project financed by the Italian Ministry of International Trade and European Affairs, IMT has launched the third international call for Research Fellows in the Research Area of Economics and Institutional Change. The call has been concluded with the hiring of a new Assistant Professor.

The selection procedure, conducted by the Evaluation Committee, started with an initial application of 301 candidates. The individual interviews have been arranged with the short-listed candidates selected on the basis of CVs, publications and reference letters. As a result, nearly 50 interviews have been carried out by the Evaluation Committee members at the ASSA meetings in New Orleans (January 4-6, 2008) and at the "Royal Economic Society PhD Presentation Meeting" at the London School of Economics (January 19-20, 2008).
Short-listed candidates were then invited to present their Job Market papers at an open seminar on February 15, 16 and 22, 2008, (display the program of the Job Market Seminars 2008).

Finally, the candidates were ranked according to their Job Market presentation, profile, experience and reference letters.

Selection Outcomes:

301 applications from 157 universities

111 applications (37%) from candidates with PhD obtained in a European country different from Italy
98 applications (33%) from candidates with PhD in the United States
56 applications (19%) from candidates with PhD obtained in Italy
36 applications (12%) from candidates with PhD obtained in the rest of the world
140 applications (47%) from candidates with Ph.D. obtained in one of the top 100 economic departments in the world (P. Kalaitzidakis, T. P. Mamuneas and T. Stengos, Rankings of Academic Journals and Institutions in Economics, December 2003, European Economic Association).
48 applications (16%) from Italians with a Ph.D. obtained abroad.

Candidates selected for the Job Market Seminars
Citizenship	PhD Country
Italy 8 Argentina 1 Austria 1 Canada 1 Portugal 1	Spain 3 USA 2 European Union (EUI) 2 Belgium 1 Canada 1 Italy 1 Sweden 1 UK 1

At the end of the selections, IMT hired one new Assistant Professor.

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Job Openings 2007

In November 2006, thanks to a Farmindustria unrestricted grant, the School has issued a second international call for Research Fellows in the area of Economics, Markets, Institutions, that closed with the hiring of two new Assistant Professors.

The selection procedure, conducted by a Committee of professors and researchers of age 35-50, with an international background and with different field of specialization, started with an initial application pool of nearly 300 and continued with over 50 interviews conducted at the ASSA meetings in Chicago (5-7 January 2007) and at the "Royal Economic Society Ph.D. Presentation Meeting" at the London School of Economics (27-28 January 2007).
Short-listed candidates were then invited to present a research paper in the context of a seminar open to faculty members and students of the School (display the program of the Job Market Seminars 2007).

A short list with the final ranking of candidates was produced on the basis of profile and experience, and upon receipt of reference letters.

For more information on the second edition, download the Brochure (PDF, Italian version, 521 KB).

Selection Outcomes:

276 applications from 151 universities

120 applications (43%) from candidates with Ph.D. obtained in a European country different from Italy
90 applications (33%) from candidates with PhD. in the United States
35 applications (13%) from candidates with Ph.D in Italy
31 applications (11%) from candidates with Ph.D. in the rest of the world

Morevoer:

132 applications (48%) from candidates with Ph.D. obtained in one of the first 100 economic departments in the world (P. Kalaitzidakis, T. P. Mamuneas and T. Stengos, Rankings of Academic Journals and Institutions in Economics, December 2003, European Economic Association).
45 applications (16%) from Italians with a Ph.D. obtained abroad.

The number, the quality and the origin of the applications received show the possibility to attract highly skilled human capital flows towards Italy.
The numerous applications from Italians who did their Ph.D. abroad confirms the existence of a "diaspora" problem that needs to be dealt with.

Data on candidate selected for the Job Market Seminars
Citizenship	PhD Country
Italy 5 Brazil 2 German y 1 Gre ece 1 India 1 L atvia 1 Taiwan 1 USA 1	USA 6 Sweden 3 Canada 1 France 1 Spain 1 European Union (EUI) 1

At the end of the selections IMT hired other two Assistant Professors: a Brazilian citizen with Ph.D. at the IIES/Stockholm University and a Taiwanese citizen, with Ph.D. at the Université de Toulouse 1 and Post-doc Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research in the U.S.A.

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Job Openings 2006

In 2005, IMT conducted its first international competition for post doc research fellowships, advertising positions on the most popular specific websites and with the help of the placement offices of the world's most renowned universities. Thanks to a good spread of the program at international level and to the competitiveness of the positions offered, the first call has received a remarkable response and applications of a very high standard.

Competitions are open and transparent, according to recommendations of the European Commission enclosed in the European Charter for Researchers and Code of Conduct for their Recruitment. Selection procedures are based on peer review criteria, and on the possibility to thoroughly negotiate the position, on the basis of international standards and salary levels.

Selection Outcomes:

A total of 190 applications were received.
131 (69%) were submitted by young researchers at present working abroad and 26 out of these (13,3%) were submitted by Italian researchers.

Economics, Markets and Institutions: 122 applications (26 Italian)
Computer Science and Engineering: 38 applications (22 Italian)
Biorobotics Science and Engineering:16 applications (4 Italian)
Political Systems and Institutional Change: 9 applications (1 from abroad)
Technology and Management of Cultural Heritage: 6 applications (2 Italian)

Focus on the area of Economics Markets Institutions:

The 122 applications received for the area of Economics, Markets, Institutions (EMI) are distributed as follows:

36 applications from leading US universities.
39 applications from other European universities (except Italy )
21 applications from the rest of the World.

33% of applications received came from candidates that have achieved their Ph.D in one of the top 100 world Universities (Academic Ranking of World Universities - Institute of Higher Education , Shanghai Jiao Tong University http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/2005/ARWU2005Main.htm ).

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