University of Zurich

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Applications are invited for a position as Full Professor (Chair), starting, at the earliest, in August 2015.

The professor will be a member of the Department of Economics and the Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development at the University of Zurich. The professorship is part of a recent expansion of the Jacobs Center which foresees, in addition, a professorship of psychology and a professorship of sociology of child and youth development plus three assistant professorships in the economics, psychology and sociology of child and youth development. These professorships are expected to position the Jacobs Center as an internationally leading institution in interdisciplinary cutting-edge research in the area of Child and Youth Development.

Our faculty places strong emphasis on outstanding research and scholarship. Through its educational and research objectives, the University of Zurich aims at attracting leading international researchers who are willing to contribute to its development and to strengthening its reputation.

The research focus of the Jacobs Center will be to understand how social, psychological, educational, biological, and economic factors interact in creating opportunities and overcoming obstacles in child and youth development. The proposed Jacobs Center expansion will be devoted to understanding these interactions by integrating the different theoretical and methodological perspectives necessary to comprehensively address challenges to productive youth development. Relevant research topics could include questions such as: How do individual characteristics, families, and educational institutions affect the course of child and adolescent development? How does social structure influence and interact with the developmental processes of children and youth? How efficient are specific interventions at different age periods in terms of social costs and benefits? How can intervention programs best be adapted to local contexts to increase their acceptance and effectiveness?

Candidates should hold a PhD degree and have an excellent record of academic achievements in the relevant fields. In order to increase the number of women in leading academic positions, we specifically encourage women to apply.

Please submit your electronic application including a CV, list of publications, a motivation letter and three representative publications. Applications should be mailed as a single PDF file to University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Dean’s Office, Rämistrasse 69, CH-8001 Zurich, bewerbungen@phil.uzh.ch.

Further information on the profile of the open positions can be found at www.phil.uzh.ch/jobs.html or may be obtained from Prof. Ernst Fehr (ernst.fehr@econ.uzh.ch).