Published: 19 April 2024
Zürich
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Permanent position
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Research Assistant / Student Assistant
This joint project represents a unique collaboration between the fields of finance, banking, applied mathematics, and statistics. It aims to leverage interdisciplinary approaches to address complex challenges in the financial sector, utilizing advanced mathematical models and computational techniques.
Our new research assistant will develop and maintain a web-based platform to allow end-users to run several of our advanced portfolio optimization methodologies on their own data. We aim to popularize our successful academic constructs and methodologies by sparing the user from needing to program them him- or herself. With this website service, we would gain greater citations on our work, and confirmation from other academics and industry practitioners that our methodologies indeed deliver higher risk-adjusted performance.
Applicants should ideally have a solid programming background, enabling them to quickly adapt to the technical requirements of the project.
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This position offers an exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of financial research, working within a dynamic and interdisciplinary team. The project aims to foster an environment of learning, innovation, and collaboration. We offer a research assistantship position with a workload of 20-40 % in a collegial, supportive and stimulating work environment.
Diversity and inclusion are important to us.