Statistical Physics and Economics

The position involves research, supervision and management of Scientific Tasks in the framework of the funded project CRISISLAB. In particular:

• Interdisciplinary research on systemic risk in economic and financial networks: modeling of propagation of financial distress, development of indicators of systemic risk and early warning systems;
• Supervision of research activity of PhDs and postdocs;
• Management of research tasks;
• Supervision of IT and data infrastructure development;
• Conducting research seminars

strong quantitative background; previous research work in the domain of complex networks; ability to develop formal models but also to carry out empirical analyses; previous international experience in the supervision of PhD students; previous international experience in IT and large data infrastructure development projects; previous experience with teaching at graduate level. The candidate should be willing to work in an interdisciplinary environment and to collaborate in an international team.