Universidad Católica del Uruguay

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Full-Time Assistant Professor – Department of Economics and Business, Universidad Católica del Uruguay (Ref. LLAM-ACA-67)
Universidad Católica del Uruguay (Montevideo) invites applications for a full-time (40 hours/week) Assistant Professor position. Responsibilities include developing an active research agenda, teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses, knowledge transfer, and academic management.
Candidates must hold a PhD (or expect to complete one in 2027), with recent research and teaching experience and a proven ability to publish in English in international peer-reviewed journals.
Preferred fields:
Behavioral sciences applied to economics and business (behavioral economics, experimental economics, decision making)
Finance (corporate finance, capital markets, banking)
Management (strategy, operations, entrepreneurship, innovation, marketing)
Human resources and organizational behavior
Also valued: WoS/Scopus-indexed output, membership in a national research evaluation system (e.g., SNI, CONICET), links with the business sector, and the ability to lead research groups.
Applications must include a cover letter, CV, and doctoral certificate, a description of research lines from the past three years, a sample undergraduate syllabus, links to up to three representative papers (or the dissertation), teaching evaluations if available, and two recommendation letters sent directly to lucia.freira@ucu.edu.uy.
Start date: February or August 2027.
Deadline: November 30, 2026.
Inquiries: Lucia Freira (lucia.freira@ucu.edu.uy)