Placement

Many graduates continue their career in academia (around 60%), with various graduates becoming a professor at domestic and foreign universities. Others are working for international organizations like the IMF, the OECD and the ECB and multinationals like Philips and Shell. Also several national central banks and large consultancy firms employ our graduates.

The graduate school puts a lot of effort in career guidance for PhD students. We believe that it is important for PhD students to think about their ambitions and future plans explicitly, early on as a PhD. In order to be successful in the job market, it is important to become aware of the required competences and actions that help them to find the right job. This also allows them to make better choices during their PhD trajectory. Over the years, the graduate school has developed a structured placement programme to support PhD students in realising their ambitions.

Placement programme

The placement programme focuses on supporting PhD students to be prepared for the next step in their career. This programme includes a so-called ‘ambition meeting’ in the first year, where the students are asked to think about their future careers, and about the actions necessary to realise their ambitions. Second, a placement meeting takes place in the 2 nd /3 rd year; this meeting is centered around concrete steps to be taken. Also several additional activities, like career workshops, and interview training, are organised for PhD students. Last but not least, a budget is available to enable PhD students to visit high quality job markets and/or to stay at a highly reputed university or a non-academic organisation.

Examples of recent placements

Please find below some recent examples of first placements.

2019	Maastrict University, Assistant Professor
2019	University of Twente, Assistant Professor
2019	Nankai Business School, Assistant Professor
2019	University of Science and Technology (Beijing), Assistant Professor
2019	University of Liverpool, Lecturer
2019	CBS/Statistics Netherlands, Statistical Researcher
2020	The University of Manchester, Presidential Fellow
2020	CPB/Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, Researcher
2020	University of Cape Town, Postdoc
2020	AFM/Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets, Supervisor
2020	University of Amsterdam/FEB, Assistant Professor
2020	Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Lecturer
2020	Beijing Normal University, Assistant Professor
2020	Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Lecturer/Researcher
2021	Enexis, AdvisorSector Strategy
2021	KU Leuven/University of Amsterdam, Researcher
2021	Erasmus University Rotterdam, Assistant Professor
2021	CPB/Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, Researcher
2021	Maastricht University, Assistant Professor
2022	Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Postdoctoral Researcher
2022	University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, Assistant Professor
2022	University College London. Assistant Professor
2022	Techonology University of Eindhoven. Postdoctoral Researcher
2023	University of Helsinki, Postdoctoral Researcher

Placement officers

The placement officers are highly reputed researchers with a wide national and international network within and outside academia. They support and advise PhD students regarding career choices . Each PhD student meets at least twice with one of the placement officers to set up an ambition plan including required actions. The current placement officers are:

Prof. Jakob de Haan
Jakob de Haan is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Groningen. Currently, he is the President of SUERF. Jakob has been Head of Research of De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) between 2009-2020. Before joining DNB, he has been Scientific Director of SOM, the graduate school and research institute of the faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Groningen, for eleven years. Jakob graduated at the University of Groningen, where he also got his Ph.D. He has published extensively on issues like public debt, monetary policy, central bank independence, exchange rates, banking, political and economic freedom and European integration. He is member of the editorial board of Public Choice, European Union Politics, the Journal of International Money and Finance, and the Journal of Common Market Studies. He has been President of the European Public Choice Society and editor of the European Journal of Political Economy. He has done research for several organizations, including the OECD, the European Commission, the Inter-American Development Bank and the Central Bank of Aruba. Currently, he is also advisor to the European Parliament on financial stability issues.

Dr. Max Groneck
Max Groneck is Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, Econometrics and Finance (EEF) and FEBRI Fellow. In his research he studies topics in household and demographic economics, in particular saving behavior of the elderly, intergenerational relations, behavioral biases and topics around female labor supply. He published in international journals such as the Economic Journal, the Journal of Human Resources and the Journal of Economic Theory. He is involved in various externally funded research projects. Max received his doctoral degree from University of Cologne; he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Stockholm School of Economics and was a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. He also worked outside academia at the Deutsche Bundestag and at the RWI, a policy think tank in Essen, Germany. For more information, visit his website.

Dr. Lucia Bellora-Bienengräber
Lucia Bellora-Bienengräber is a tenured Assistant Professor at the Department of Accounting and Auditing and Fellow of the FEB Research Institute. Moreover, she is Adjunct Faculty Member at Clemson University (South Carolina, USA). Before joining RUG, she worked in academia at the University of Hamburg (Germany) and Technical University of Dresden (Germany), but also in practice as a project manager. She is a regular Visiting Researcher at Clemson University (South Carolina, USA), and she was a Visiting Researcher at Johns Hopkins University (Maryland, USA). In her research, she studies topics at the intersection between management control, management accounting, and disclosure quality and uses insights from sociology, psychology, and strategy research. Her research has been published in leading, both disciplinary and interdisciplinary academic journals such as Accounting, Organizations and Society, Organizational Research Methods, and The British Accounting Review.

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18 December 2023 09.57 a.m.