Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Open Finance

3 weeks ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

**Grade 7 £37,099 - £44,263**
**Business School**
**Fixed Term 24 months**
**Full Time**

We are looking for **a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Open Finance**

This post is advertised as full-time (35 hours per week. We are also open to considering requests for hybrid working (on a non-contractual basis) that combines a mix of remote and regular on-campus working.

**The Opportunity**:
This project aims to support the work of Professor Raffaella Calabrese on creating an Open Finance sandbox that merge datasets from different financial institutions, such as banks, insurance and pension funds.

**Your skills and attributes for success**:

- A PhD (or close to completion) in Statistics, Operations Research, Computational Sciences or Economics, Management Science or closely related field
- Experience of designing and performing data analyses
- Excellent programming skills in R or Python.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to publish in high quality peer-reviewed, academic journals

**Click **here **to view a copy of the full job description**

We wish to appoint a postdoctoral research fellow to engage in research on Open Finance.

**As a valued member of our team you can expect**:
At EFI, we want to attract outstanding researchers and help them to develop their research ideas and become FI independent. This scheme provides the most talented early career academics with a supportive environment, research funding, mentoring and networking opportunities and access to high-quality training opportunities, to build a strong base for a successful research career.

This post contributes to research in an area of strategic importance for the College. The post-holder will make an important contribution to research and help grow capacity within this area. The post-holder will report on his/her progress to his/her mentor on a regular basis, and will contribute to interactions between the UEBS, EFI, industry partners, policy makers and other scholars working in this field.

An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme **, **staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, flexible working and much more. Click to access our **staff benefits page **(opens new browser tab) for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our **right to work webpages **(opens new browser tab)

On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

**Key dates to note**

Interviews will be held **on the 10th of January 2024



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