Research Student Assistant - Faculty of Business and Economics

Founded in 1460, the University of Basel is the oldest university in Switzerland. The Faculty of Business and Economics was established in 1995 and is the second youngest of the overall seven faculties at the University of Basel. However, the subject of economics has already been taught for almost 150 years in Basel.We have a faculty staff of 30 professors and around 100 academic employees who are active in research and teaching. 

The research group of Quantitative Economic History, under guidance of Prof. Dr. Mattia Fochesato in the Faculty of Business and Economics invites applications for a Research Student Assistant (Hilfsassistent/-in) position with a 20% appointment.

 

Your position

Our research group is currently in the process of launching new research projects. For these projects, we are looking for the support of a motivated student like you in the following tasks:

• Organization, analysis and initial broad summary of the literature.
• Collection, organization, coding, and pre processing of historical quantitative and qualitative data (under our instruction)
• Implementation of data analysis (under our instruction)
• Undertaking administrative tasks (E.g. document preparation with specific instructions)

 

Your profile

• Good writing and communication skills in English
• Motivation to learn new research tools
• Willingness to work in a team

The following skills are not strict prerequisite, but it would be a plus, if you are already familiar with some of them.

• LaTeX
• MS Office (Word, Excel, PPT)
• R and/or Stata

 

We offer you

We offer a dynamic working environment in a team of international scholars. We hope that, through this assistantship, you can also acquire various tangible and intangible skills that might eventually push you forward in your future career.

 

Application / Contact

For further information, please contact Prof. Mattia Fochesato, head of the research group.