Statistics Recruitment for 2015-2016 at WISE & SOE of Xiamen University
Tenured & Tenure Track full time faculty positions in Statistics with ranks open
WANG YANAN INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN ECONOMICS (WISE) and SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS (SOE), XIAMEN UNIVERSITY, P.R. of CHINA
Xiamen University, founded in 1921 by Mr. Tan Kah-Kee, a well-known Chinese expatriate, is located in the resort-like island of Xiamen in Southeast China. Under the leadership of Professor Wang Yanan, a former Xiamen University President and the Chinese translator of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital, the School of Economics at Xiamen University has been one of the top schools in China since 1950s. To further develop and promote modern statistics and the related fields, Xiamen University established an internationalized research institute in 2005, which is named as the Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics. The main missions of WISE and SOE are to conduct high-quality graduate/undergraduate education and training, frontier research, and intensively international academic exchanges and cooperation in statistics and the related fields.
Having successfully recruited over 50 faculty members, including 8 statisticians and 10 econometricians, from abroad in the past few years, WISE and SOE still have several full faculty positions available in all areas of statistics (both theoretical and applied) and probability theory (including stochastic processes) at all ranks. Junior candidates are expected to have a Ph.D. degree by August 2016 in statistics and probability theory as well as the related fields and to show a strong evidence of promising research ability. Senior candidates must have a Ph.D. degree and a demonstrably strong research record. Competitive salary, research grant and housing subsidy are provided with a regular teaching load of 3 courses per year. Additional course(s) may be arranged with commensurate pay. All faculty members, regardless of their citizenship, enjoy a housing subsidy for the first six years. The detailed information on this regard can be found at the website
http://www.wise.xmu.edu.cn/english. Some selected candidates will be interviewed at the 2016 ASSA meeting (For the detailed information about the ASSA Meeting, please see the web site
https://www.aeaweb.org/Annual_Meeting/index.php) in San Francisco, CA.
Interested applicants should send a cover letter with their curriculum vitae, samples of their research work, and three reference letters (including any teaching evaluations) before November 30, 2015. Please indicate whether you are applying for a position at WISE, SOE, or both.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Chair of the Recruiting Committee, c/o Ms Daisy Xu
Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics (WISE) and School of Economics Room A307, Economics Building
Xiamen University
Xiamen, Fujian 361005
P.R. of China
Email:
recruit.wise.xmu@gmail.com
