Assistant Professorship at the University of Porto

The Department of Economics of the University of Porto is recruiting 2 Assistant Professors for the Area of Social Sciences (tenure track), starting September 2009. One of the positions is for Economic History/History of Economic Thought and the other for Sociology/Methodology of Social Sciences.

The Department of Economics of UPorto is one of the most prestigious in the country and has a strong and significant group of faculty interested in the History of Economic Thought, including Antonio Almodovar, Maria de Fátima Brandão, and Mário Graça Moura. HET is a compulsory course at the undergraduate and graduate level. Roger Backhouse has been Visiting Professor in the Department for the last 10 years teaching at the PhD programme in Economics.

Conditions:

• The starting salary of an Assistant Professor is around 2,000€ (netto) paid 14 months (12 months plus extra payment in June and December).
• Assistant Professors are expected to teach an average of 6-8h per week, 28 weeks per year, though in some cases they may concentrate their teaching in one semester (14 weeks).
• Teaching is mainly in Portuguese at the undergraduate level and in English at the Graduate level.
• The academic year starts in mid-September and ends in mid-July.

Selection Criteria:

• Candidates should have a PhD in a relevant field for those areas, completed in the last 5 years.
• The selection committee will give priority to candidates showing strong research potential, namely through publications in prestigious international outlets.

Candidates should send their CV until the 19th June 2009:

• either electronically for the following address: srh [at] fep.up.pt
• or by normal mail to: Serviço de Recursos Humanos, Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200 Porto, Portugal
• candidates willing to send their publications may do it, either electronically or in a CD/memory stick.

Interested candidates should contact Pedro Nuno Teixeira: pedrotx [at] fep.up.pt