Doctoral Student in Statistics

One position, full time (100%), with start from September 1, 2010.Jönköping International Business School (JIBS) serves regional and global needs by educating entrepreneurial leaders and business creators.JIBS shall be recognized as providing innovative leadership in research, education and service to society within entrepreneurship and business renewal.JIBS is one of four schools within Jönköping University and has about 2200 students and 200 employees of which 80 are PhD students.The Department of Economics and Statistics is known for excellence in research and teaching and for its strong international profile.Due to expanding research activities, we are now looking for a PhD student in the area of statistics.The Department of Economics and Statistics welcome applicants to the PhD program in the broad field of statistics.However, our strength is Statistics oriented towards Econometrics, which means that we are particularly welcoming candidates with interest in this area. If you have previous experience and/or strong research and teaching interests in Statistics, we encourage you to apply.For more information about the research at JIBS, please visit www.jibs.se, where you can also read more about our PhD program in Statistics.WORKING TASKS / QUALIFICATIONS As a PhD student, working full-time, at least 70 per cent of your time is devoted to your doctoral research.Doctoral research includes coursework and writing a doctoral thesis.The remaining time is allocated to teaching and administrative tasks. The applicant should hold a Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Statistics or a related subject area.We seek candidates who have the ambition to pursue an international research career and wish to combine a high level of scholarship with research that is relevant to practice.The applicant needs to be fluent in both written and spoken English.As an international business school, we also highly value skills in other languages, and it is considered an additional qualification for candidates to have an international outlook as well as prior teaching and/or industry experience.For subject-related questions, please contact Professor Börje Johansson, Department Head or Professor Ghazi Shukur. APPLICATION Please submit, in 4 copies: your letter of application with a personal description of yourself, a letter of intent (your motivation for enrolling in the doctoral program), a CV, attested documents (transcript, diploma, evidence of prior teaching and or industry experience), a copy of your Bachelor's and/or Master's Thesis and other publications as well as the names and phone numbers to at least two references to the address below: Jönköping International Business School Att.Registrar P.O.Box 1026 SE-551 11 Jönköping Sweden The deadline for applying is April 12, 2010.E-mail applications will not be accepted.Please quote reference number 10/019-7.2.9 clearly on your application.â