Assistant/Associate Professor Real Estate Finance

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About the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology

The Scheller College of Business; Full-time MBA Program is ranked #4 among public universities by Bloomberg BusinessWeek (2023) and #25 overall in U.

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Atlanta is the 6th largest metropolitan area in the U.S. and serves as a cultural and economic hub for the region.

The Finance Area consists of nine tenure-track faculty members and includes one endowed chair. Faculty members have distinctive backgrounds and pursue a variety of research interests, including asset pricing, corporate finance, banking, household finance, labor finance, FinTech, and machine learning.

They publish in the premier outlets of finance and adjacent fields, and their research has received numerous scholarly awards.

Additional information about our faculty can be found at https : / / www.scheller.gatech.edu / academics-research / finance / index.

html . Through the Financial Service Innovation Lab ( https : / / fintech.gatech.edu ), the finance area collaborates with many companies and has access to many proprietary datasets.

Location

Atlanta, GA

Job Summary

The Scheller College of Business https : / / www.scheller.gatech.edu / at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia invites applications for an Assistant / Associate Professor faculty position in Real Estate Finance starting in fall 2025.

Beyond teaching and research responsibilities as well as service to the Institute, the faculty is expected to lead and grow the real estate program in Scheller College.

Responsibilities

Job responsibilities include demonstrated ability to teach at the undergraduate and / or graduate level. Seasoned scholars should exhibit a track record of publications in the top journals in finance, economics, and real estate.

Candidates for Assistant or Associate Professor should possess outstanding potential for excellent scholarly research. A competitive salary will be offered, with an expected teaching load of three courses per year are competitive with leading research universities.

Responsibilities for this position entails :

• Excellence in classroom instruction in subjects related to real estate finance at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
• Dedication to participation and leadership in professional activities, such as presenting work-in-progress at important professional conferences, peer-review, and editorial positions in relevant journals.
• Commitment to service and student-engagement at the Institute level and beyond.

Required Qualifications

The minimum requirements are a Ph.D. in Finance or an associated area (candidates must have their Ph.D. completed no later than July 1, 2025 ).

Preferred Qualifications

Student Success Criteria

• The ability to adopt teaching strategies that support the learning and success of all students.
• The ability to engage students in experiential learning activities and pedagogy that support student success.

Required Documents to Attach

Applicants should submit :

• A cover letter.
• Vita including education, research interests / publications, work experience and other relevant information.
• One or more sample research papers.
• Three letters of recommendation with your name in the filename (e.g., Smith John Letter of Recommendation.pdf). Please make sure your name also appears in the body of the recommendation letter.

Your letter writers should submit the confidential letters of recommendation to : [email protected] .

For advanced assistant or associate professors , please submit names and contact information of three to five references .

Only references for the top candidates will be requested.

Contact Information

Correspondence should be addressed to the Chair of Real Estate Finance Recruiting Committee. Applications should be sent no later than November 5, 2024 .

We will start evaluating applications on a rolling basis.

Questions pertaining to this search should be sent to : [email protected] .

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