University of Groningen

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Job description
The Board of the Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) aims to create a new full-time chair in Macroeconomics.

Responsibilities and duties
The tasks include but are not limited to:

• contributing to the Bachelor program in Economics and Business Economics, and the master program in Economics, including lecturing, course and program development and the supervision of bachelor and master theses. The professor is also expected to contribute to the selective Research Master program
• contributing to enhancing the international reputation and international network of the Department of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, specifically in the area of macroeconomics
• supervising PhD students, mentoring junior staff members
• acquiring external funding from NWO, ERC, and other sources
• contributing to the research program of the Department of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and in particular to macroeconomic research within the program
• playing a prominent role in stimulating research collaborations with researchers in adjacent fields
• participating in the public macroeconomic debate on the national and/or international level; and
• willingness/ability to collaborate with colleagues in adjacent fields/departments and taking potential leadership roles within the department.