Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Corporate Finance

Ca’ Foscari is engaged in achieving a world-class scientific environment, recruiting the best talents worldwide. Our talented young researchers and experienced senior professors collaborate to make Ca’ Foscari a stimulating environment for career development and freedom of research. Our University is committed to achieving excellence in research, funding promising researchers and developing international partnerships. As a leading research university, Ca’ Foscari has set a new agenda designed around six global challenges, exploring cutting-edge research directions that cross disciplinary boundaries. 

Ca’ Foscari is offering a tenure-track position in Corporate Finance to a scholar who can raise the challenge of inspiring students to be game-changers and make a genuine difference in the world. 

The candidate will have to teach in courses related to the academic recruitment field “Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Corporate Finance”, both in Italian and in English, mainly directed to corporate financial policies and entrepreneurial finance, for the overall amount of hours provided for by law (3 courses, total of 90 hours).

The researcher will focus the research activity on corporate financing, with particular regard to SMEs, about sustainability and business risk management. As well, the researcher will cooperate in the activities and projects of the Department of Management and of the Labor and Business 4.0 Laboratory. 

The position is at the Department of Management, whose major fields of activity include innovation, entrepreneurship, international management and creativity. The faculty in engaged in blending teaching and research in close contact with stakeholders from the economic, institutional and professional areas, while also focusing on sustainability and responsible development issues for the wellbeing of future generations. 

The Department has been awarded the official recognition of “Department of Excellence” (top 10%) by the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research, with special dedicated funding to develop an innovative project on Analytical Intelligence for Management.

Ca’ Foscari scores among the top 300 universities in the world for Business and Management Studies according to the most recent QS World University Ranking. 

The Institution

Since its foundation in 1868, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice has been a leader in Economics and Foreign Languages and Cultures. Today, Ca’ Foscari is exploring new frontiers in research, focusing on Climate Change, Digital Humanities, Digital and Social Innovation, and Nanosciences. An intellectual powerhouse of international repute in the heart of the city of Venice, Ca’ Foscari provides a one-of-a-kind blend of scientific research, cultural heritage and history, offering a life-changing experience to its students and researchers, with a transformative impact on the local community. 

Ca’ Foscari University of Venice has also obtained the full Human Resources Strategy for Researchers certificate, a set of initiatives to improve work conditions for researchers and to attract talents worldwide.

Our Housing office will help you search for a suitable and convenient accommodation, matching your needs and preferences with the available options. 

If you are a non-Italian applicant or if you have resided outside of Italy for more than 3 years, you will benefit from a favorable tax treatment for the first years of the contract.

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Application deadline: 1 pm, 27 April 2023

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