In order to further implement the strategy of strengthening the university with talents, gather outstanding young talents foreign and domestic, and promote the construction of first-class financial disciplines, the School of Finance of Nankai University is looking for young academic leaders at foreign and domestic.

1.Introduction of positions

Nankai University “Hundred Young Academic Leaders Training Program” post

2. The introduction of professional fields

Finance, insurance, actuarial science related professional fields, and digital finance, ESG and other related interdisciplinary fields.

3.Application Conditions

The selection of the “100 Young Academic Leaders Training Program” adheres to the principle of having both ability and morality. In addition, applicants should abide by the laws and regulations of the People's Republic of China and the relevant provisions of teachers' professional ethics, abide by academic norms, have good conduct, and meet the following conditions:

        a.The applicant must be no more than 45 years old (born after January 1, 1977).

     b.Applicants should have obtained a doctorate degree. Off-campus applicants should have formal teaching or scientific research positions in well-known domestic and foreign universities, scientific research institutions or well-known enterprise research and development institutions, at least at the level of associate professors/associate researchers of our school, and should comply with the relevant regulations of our school for talent introduction. On-campus applicants should be full-time teachers who have reached the level of associate professor/associate researcher and above.

       c.Applicants should have the academic development potential and independent innovation ability of young academic leaders, have a good research foundation and research directions and plans based on academic frontiers, and be able to form a competitive academic team, and according to the urgent needs of national development and International academic frontiers set up and implement forward-looking, innovative and feasible research projects.

The “100 Young Academic Leaders Training Program” will be assessed when it reaches four years, and if the assessment is passed, it can be extended for another year. “100 Young Academic Leaders Training Program” B grade candidates must meet the school's high-end talents or 100 Young Academic Leaders Training Program  A grade evaluation and employment conditions.

4.Application method

    a.Applicants must pass the school's talent introduction review system: http://yinjin.nankai.edu.cn/, and fill in relevant information as required. The applicant should refer to the filling instructions, fill in the application materials objectively, truthfully, completely and in a standardized manner, and provide relevant attachment materials.

      b.The applicant should complete the system submission before June 19.

Nankai University and the School of Finance will provide competitive support for the introduction of talents in terms of remuneration, research funding, housing subsidies, team building, graduate recruitment and international training. The school is equipped with kindergartens (on campus) with excellent teachers, affiliated primary schools (well-known primary schools in Tianjin), affiliated middle schools (municipal key middle schools) and affiliated hospitals, and strives to create a development environment for talents to work with peace of mind.

Contact: Mr. Zhang

Email: nkzhangjian@nankai.edu.cn

College Introduction

When Nankai University was founded in 1919, the department of Banking and Finance was established. In 1982, Nankai University resumed the undergraduate education in finance. In early 1984, the first batch of doctoral degree authorization points in international finance was approved and was rated as a national key discipline in 1986. In 1985, the first batch of insurance undergraduates were recruited in China. In 1988, it cooperated with the North American Society of Actuaries to train the Master of Actuarial Science in China for the first time. In 1996, the Department of Risk Management and Insurance was established; in 2002, the first master of financial engineering was recruited in China.

In 2015, Nankai University established the School of Finance. The college currently has the Department of Finance, the Department of Quantitative Finance, the Department of Applied Finance, the Department of Financial Economics, the Department of Risk Management and Insurance, the Department of Actuarial Science, the Institute of Finance, the Institute of Digital Finance, the Institute of Risk Management and Insurance, the Institute of Pension and Health Protection and other teaching and research units. In 2021, the applied economics discipline of the college will be newly selected as a national first-class discipline, and the master's degree in finance will be awarded a QS five-star project.

The college has first-class teaching staff, and currently has 78 full-time teachers, including 34 young returnees from world-class universities such as Yale University, Cambridge University, UCLA and other world-class universities. Nobel Prize winners in economics and internationally renowned economists are employed as honorary professors or lecturers. Now it has formed a high-level international teaching and research team with academic leaders as the core and various types of teachers' collaborative development.

The college currently has 5 undergraduate majors, 4 science master's majors, 2 professional master's programs, and 3 doctoral majors, forming a comprehensive and structured education system. Finance, insurance and financial engineering have all been selected as national first-class undergraduate professional construction sites.

The college has a teaching and administrative building of 17,000 square meters. The college library Ningyi Hongdao Study is a multi-functional academic platform integrating collection, reading, teaching and communication, with more than 10,000 books.The experimental center of the college covers an area of nearly 1,000 square meters. It has a data resource center, a big data laboratory, an international financial market simulation laboratory, an FDT financial innovation workshop, a systemic risk research laboratory, a behavioral finance laboratory, and a professional degree graduate training laboratory. Featured laboratory, equipped with 2 dual-channel Tesla GPU servers, 2 3-channel GEFORCE RTX3090 GPU servers, 2 Xeon Platinum CPU servers, 5 high-performance computing workstations and other computing platforms, subscribe to Bloomberg, WRDS, CRSP, Compustat, Optionmetrics, CEIC, Wind Youkuang and other data resources and nearly 10 professional analysis tools can simulate the trading environment of the international financial market and meet the requirements of teaching and research in the real-time financial market environment.

Financial Innovation Workshop

CCB - Nankai Systemic Risk Research Laboratory

International Financial Market Simulation Laboratory

International Talent Ability Training Center (Smart Classroom)

Ningyi Hongdao Study