MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship

During your stay, you will be supervised by professor Štefan Lyócsa, one of our leading experts in financial risk modelling. His current research is concerned with instabilities of the financial system, market and credit risk and exploring the role of public attention and sentiment on asset price fluctuations. Moreover, Štefan is interested in data-driven topics related to the modelling of extreme price fluctuations, e. g. Value at Risk, Expected Shortfall. He is research-oriented and has co-authored over seventy peer-reviewed studies. However, he also works as an independent researcher for businesses and government institutions and enjoys teaching data analysis methods, which he has been doing for the past eighteen years, including preparing and leading courses.

Preferred topics include migration, labour market discrimination or discrimination in access to public services. During your stay, you will be supervised by Štěpán Mikula, one of our researchers in the field of economics of migration who also conducts research on hiring discrimination and discrimination in access to public services.

During your stay, you will be supervised by associate professor Jakub Procházka, one of our leading experts in positive human resources management and organizational behaviour. Jakub is the head of the Department of Business Management at the Faculty of Economics and Administration. His research focus lies on the border between psychology and business management with application in human resources management. He is especially interested in attitudes and well-being of employees and positive ways in which organizations can influence it. The focal constructs are leadership, autonomy at work, organizational commitment, burnout, and psychological capital. In terms of methodology, he prefers quantitative research, especially experiments and large surveys with data analysis using Structural Equations Modelling. He has published in journals such as The International Journal of Human Resources Management, Psychological Science, Judgment and Decision Making, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, or Conscientiousness and Cognition.

During your stay, you will be supervised by Zdeněk Tomeš, one of our leading experts in the field of transport economics and policy. Professor Tomeš has specialized in the areas of rail competition, modal shift, transport demand, and transport equity. He has published in journals such as Transport Policy, Research in Transportation Economics, and Journal of Transport Geography. He leads a research team at the Department of Economics. The team has many ongoing projects in cooperation with partners from the industry (Czech Railways) and intensive cooperation with foreign universities (Leeds, Milano, Florence). Contact: (tomes@econ.muni.cz)

During your stay, you will be supervised by David Špaček, one of our leading experts in public administration. In his research, David focuses on public administration and public management, especially on topics like digitalization, (e-)participation, e-procurement, strategic planning and management, quality management, intermunicipal cooperation and civil services. Currently he is involved in research projects focusing on changes in public authorities implemented due to the COVID-19 pandemic and systemic issues of public administration revealed by current crises. He has been actively involved in related working groups of recognized international conferences and, also, in close touch with practitioners from public administration. He also teaches related topics in courses delivered by the Faculty of Economics and Administration and is tutoring PhD candidates too.

During your stay, you will be supervised by Prateek Kalia, one of our leading experts in the field of consumer behaviour. His research concentrates on the intersection of consumer behavior and technology with relevance to marketing management. Especially he is interested in electronic commerce with a particular focus on digital retail, electronic service quality, cyberpsychology, human-computer interactions, and smartphone use. He is very well known for his novel smartphone user classification metrics called Cellulographics© and currently working on its integration into the above-mentioned topics. Methodologically, he has published quite extensively using second-generation statistical techniques such as structural equational modeling. His research appears in journals such as the International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Computers in Human Behavior, Journal of Innovation & Knowledge, and European Management Journal.