Post-doctoral Researcher with Expertise in Virtual Reality

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The Future of Work Virtual Reality Lab (FoW VR Lab) of the Center for Leadership in the Future of Work (CLFW), led by Prof. Dr. Jochen Menges at the University of Zurich is inviting applications for a

Post-doctoral Researcher with Expertise in Virtual Reality

The FoW VR Lab is dedicated to exploring whether and how Virtual Reality (VR) technologies can be used to improve the world of work for people. It does so by (i) promoting research on the use of VR for work, (ii) enabling new approaches to conducting research with VR across disciplines (iii) testing the potential of VR as a learning tool across disciplines, and (iv) offering new, more immersive opportunities for people to meet, engage, and learn with each other through VR. In doing so, it seeks to be at the forefront of research on the future of work and brings together scholars who are interested in the Future of Work from both UZH and from around the world. The Lab invites broad academic participation and collaboration with practitioners across different sectors and industries and contributes to a growing ecosystem focused on preparing people and organization’s for the future of work.

Your qualifications include…

• a completed or nearly completed PhD degree or its equivalent in Business or Psychology or Informatics or neighboring fields, ideally with a special emphasis on organizational behavior or organizational/ industrial psychology
• expertise in virtual reality, as evidenced by relevant projects
• a proven publication track record, or publication potential as evident in working papers or submitted papers that are invited for revision
• excellent oral and written English, as evidenced in a PhD dissertation written in English
• a good understanding of quantitative methods, including a good command of relevant software packages, such as R, Mplus, Stata, and/or SPSS
• good presentation skills, as evident in conference presentations; teaching experience (ideally with formal student evaluations) is a plus
• a readiness to engage with leaders and organizations
• the ability to work in and guide a team, curiosity and discipline, self-reliance and initiative-taking, as well as integrity and creativity

You have the opportunity…

• to advance your academic career at an internationally renowned research university and to partake in extensive career development with the aim of obtaining an assistant professorship or an advanced position in practice
• to establish and shape the laboratory into a world-class facility, working with leading scholars through collaborative research projects
• to be part of and guide a dynamic team that is dedicated to top-tier research, inspirational teaching and impactful outreach while fostering a positive working atmosphere
• to work in a well-equipped, state-of-the-art research infrastructure
• to live in a city where the quality of life is among the best in the world
• to receive a competitive salary, in line with the university’s compensation scheme
• to hold a renewable contract

How to apply:

Step 1:

Please submit your application in English via e-mail to our office manager, Lissette Cabrera: [email protected]. Your application should consist of the following PDF documents:

First, please put the following documents in this order into a single PDF document:

1. A 2-page cover letter that describes your motivation and research interests, and includes your contact data and potential start date
2. A current academic CV; if applicable, please list VR projects, publications (academic and/or other), conference presentations, teaching experience, professional/consulting experience, and experience with grants and third-party funding
3. Copies of your final transcripts for high school and all university degrees
4. Optionally, any transcripts for tests scores (e.g., TOEFL, SAT, ACT, GRE, GMAT)
5. Names and contact data including e-mail and phone number for three academic referees

Second, please submit a copy of your PhD dissertation as a separate PDF document.

Third, please submit two publications, manuscripts in the publication process, or working papers, or documentations of VR projects including a description of the role you took in these projects.

STEP 2:

If we see a good fit between your profile and our offer, we would invite you for a online interview on Zoom.

STEP 3:

To get to know each other, we invite successful candidates to Zurich for further interviews, provided that travel will be permitted.

Submission deadline: on a rolling basis, with a first review of applications scheduled for August 9, 2021

Start date: as soon as possible

Any questions?

If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact our Office Manger Lissette Cabrera at [email protected]. She handles all queries relating to the position.

We look forward to receiving your application!

NOTES:

Additional Salary Information: competitive salary, in line with the university’s compensation scheme.

About University of Zurich The University of Zurich is one of the leading research universities in Europe and enjoys an excellent international reputation. With scholars and students from all over the world, the Faculty of Business, Economics and Information Technology engages with the important economic and social questions of our times and addresses them through cutting-edge research. The Chair of Human Resource Management and Leadership is part of the Department of Business Administration within the Faculty of Business, Economics and Information Technology. In our research, we focus on the social dynamics between leaders and followers and on the role of emotions and motivation in organizational life. We employ primarily quantitative methods and conduct carefully controlled experiments as well as field and archival studies in organizations; we also use big data and related approaches in people analytics as well as qualitative approaches. We publish our findings in widely read top-tier academic journals, such as the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, the Journal of Applied Psychology, and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. We also share our findings beyond academia in practitioner oriented journals such as Harvard Business Review. Our research is frequently covered in the media around the world, for example, by the BBC, CNN, The Economist, The Financial Times, Le Monde, NPR, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Die Zeit. The Chair of Human Resource Management and Leadership and our newly forming Center dedicated to studying the future of work thus provide a highly research-oriented environment in which people work together to answer big questions, inspired by challenges that leaders and corporations face currently and will face in the future. We give aspiring researchers an opportunity to grow their careers in a collaborative setting with a global outlook, and we foster a startup spirit that allows all members of the Chair to shape and contribute to the Chair’s goal of developing a leading platform for rigorous research, inspirational teaching, effective outreach, and organizational and societal impact.