Department of Business Statistics & Econometrics, Guanghua School of Management at Peking University is seeking candidates for two tenure-track assistant professor positions starting in 2008-2009 academic year. Ph.D in either Statistics or Econometrics is required. The requirements for these positions are a strong research background, excellent communication skills and an interest in teaching. Teaching MBA courses is expected, and teaching is communicated mainly in Mandarin.
Background Information
Guanghua School of Management is one of most leading business schools in China. Currently, it holds total of nine different departments, covering the area of economics, finance, accounting, marketing, strategy, management science, and also statistics. The Department of Business Statistics & Econometrics, established in 2002, is the first statistics department in a business school in China. Currently, the department holds four regular faculty members but plays a very important role. Specifically, the department needs to provide high standard statistical courses and/or trainings for essentially every program operated by the school, e.g., undergraduate, graduate, MBA, EMBA, EDP, etc. Secondly, the department needs to provide high standard statistical consulting services for the faculties of other department (e.g., finance, marketing, etc) and/or research institutes. We are very proud to be able to bring statistical thinking into real business management and research!
Financial Support
The school is trying all the best to pay competitively at an international standard. Typically, the annual salary of an assistant professor starts at about 320,000 RMB.
The school offers a generous re-location package of 350,000 RMB consist of a settle-down allowance of 150,000 RMB plus a lump-sum of 200,000 RMB for housing purchase.
A start-up research grant of 50,000RMB per year is available for the first two years.
In addition to that, for any research grant received from well-recognized national research institute (e.g., Nature Science Foundation of China, NSFC), school matches 50% up to 100,000RMB. This means if you receive a 200,000RMB grant from NSFC, the school will award you another 100,000RMB research grant as bonus. Various other smaller scale research grants are also available.
The school pay generous bonus for any publication on a journal cited by SCI. Currently, the highest bonus for one single author publication in Annals, Biometrika, JASA, or JRSSB can be as high as 60,000 RMB per article.
To encourage faculties to attend international conference, the school pays for every regular faculty 2,000 USD per year for attending any academic conference and/or workshop outside of mainland China. Mini travel grants might also be available from the department for attending domestic conferences.
One-year sabbatical leave can be arranged for faculties having served school for a total of five years. Alternatively, half-year sabbatical leave is also possible for faculties after serving school for three years.
Contact Information
The interested applicants should send your CV, three reference letters, and one most representative work to
Faculty Recruiting Committee
c/o Ms. Junhua Xu
Guanghua School of Management
Peking University, Beijing, P. R. China, 100871
E-mail: xujh@gsm.pku.edu.cn
For other information related to the position and the department, please send your e-mail to: Prof. Songxi Chen (csx@gsm.pku.edu.cn) or Prof. Hansheng Wang (hansheng@gsm.pku. edu.cn). or visit http://www.gsm.pku.edu.cn/