The selection process is competitive. Only excellent students will be admitted to our PhD programmes. Admission is based on the Programme Committee’s evaluation of your submitted application documents (‘sur dossier’).
Admitted candidates will start their coursework in September 2024. Admitted candidates may be offered research assistant positions.
Vacancies for Research Assistant positions & PhD in Economics and Econometrics (PEcon), intake September 2024, may be found below (this list is subject to regular updates):
Supervisor | Topics | No. positions |
Prof. Francesco Audrino | Financial Econometrics, Financial Economics, Computational Statistics with applications in Finance | 1 |
Prof. Sabrina Eisenbarth | Environmental Economics | 1 |
Prof. Beatrix Eugster | Applied Econometrics, education/labor economics | 1 |
Prof. Matthias Fengler | Financial Econometrics / Financial Economics | 1 |
Prof. Winfried Königer | Macroeconomics, Financial Economics, Consumption, Labor Economics, Decisions under Uncertainty | 1 |
Please refer to this list when you write the description of your research interests and explicitly state your most preferred PhD supervisor(s) at the beginning of this description.
You may also bring your own funding, for example via a national grant (please explicitly state this in your application). In this case, consider also the list of all potential PEcon supervisors and of our faculty and their research interests.
Application procedure
1. The first and main step of the application is to submit the documents to the University’s job portal (except for the reference letters, which should be sent directly by the letter writers to gpef@unisg.ch). No application fee needs to be paid at this point. University of St.Gallen master's students may apply if they expect to finish their degree before 31 August 2024).
Required documents:
Other necessary documents:
Review of applications:
The first review of applications will take place after 31 January 2024. Please make sure to submit your application by this date for full consideration. Thereafter, applications may still be accepted subject to availability of free spaces.
2. In a second step:
Admitted candidates will start their coursework in September 2024. Admitted candidates may be offered research assistant positions. Vacancies for research assistant positions & PhD in Finance (PiF), intake September 2024, may be found below (this list is subject to regular updates):
Supervisor | Topics | No. positions |
Prof. Francesco Audrino | Financial Econometrics, Financial Economics, Computational Statistics with applications in Finance | 1 |
Prof. Christian Biener | Behavioral insurance and/or health insurance | 1 |
Prof. Alexander Braun | Natural Disasters and the Financial System, Insurance-Linked Securities, Extreme Risks, Financial Pricing of Insurance, InsurTec | 1 |
Prof. Martin Eling | Risk management and insurance, in particular applied to Cyber risk | 1 |
Prof. Matthias Fengler | Financial Econometrics / Financial Economics | 1 |
Prof. Lyudmila Grigoryeva | Statistical/machine learning, Learning of dynamic processes, Financial econometrics, Reservoir computing, Time series analysis and forecasting | 1 |
Prof. Anastasia Kartasheva | Banking, Banking crises and regulation, International financial regulation, Insurance and sustainability, Financial and insurance of large risks (pandemic, cyber), Financial economic of insurance | 2 |
Prof. Vesa Pursiainen | Corporate finance, banking and financial intermediation, fintech, private equity and venture capital, household finance, behavioral finance | 2 |
Prof. Markus Schmid | Corporate Finance and Governance, ESG and Sustainable Finance, Household Finance | 1 |
Prof. Paul Söderlind | Asset pricing | 1 |
Prof. Tereza Tykvova | Empirical corporate finance, private equity, venture capital | 2 |
Prof. Matthias Weber | Machine learning in taxation | 1 |
Please refer to this list when you write the description of your research interests and explicitly state your most preferred PhD supervisor(s) at the beginning of this description.
You may also bring your own funding, for example via a national grant (please explicitly state this in your application). In this case, consider also the list of all potential PiF supervisors.
Application procedure
1. The first and main step of the application is to submit the documents to the University’s job portal (except for the reference letters, which should be sent directlyby the letter writers to gpef@unisg.ch ). No application fee needs to be paid at this point. University of St.Gallen master's students may apply if they expect to finish their degree before 31 August 2024). Please refer to this list when you write the description of your research interests and explicitly state your most preferred PhD supervisor(s) at the beginning of this description.
Required documents:
Other necessary documents:
Review of applications:
The first review of applications will take place after 31 January 2024. Please make sure to submit your application by this date for full consideration. Thereafter, applications may still be accepted subject to availability of free spaces.
2. In a second step:
Application procedure
1. First main step: Application via the SFI platform for St.Gallen Campus.
Deadlines:
1 November - Application start on SFI platform
15 January - 1st round review applications
31 March - 2nd round review applications
SFI students must have an SFI supervisor and an SFI senior chair in their thesis committee.
You will find a list of PiF supervsiors who are also SFI faculty under PiF Supervisors & SFI Faculty. Please refer to this list when you are asked to state your most preferred PhD supervisor(s).
Admitted candidates will start their coursework in September 2024. Admitted candidates may be offered research assistant positions. Vacancies for Research Assistant Positions & Ph.D. in Finance (PiF), intake September 2024, may be be find below (this list is subject to regular updates):
Supervisor | Topics | No. positions |
Prof. Francesco Audrino | Financial Econometrics, Financial Economics, Computational Statistics with applications in Finance | 1 |
Prof. Christian Biener | Behavioral insurance and/or health insurance | 1 |
Prof. Alexander Braun | Natural Disasters and the Financial System, Insurance-Linked Securities, Extreme Risks, Financial Pricing of Insurance, InsurTec | 1 |
Prof. Matthias Fengler | Financial Econometrics / Financial Economics | 1 |
Prof. Anastasia Kartasheva | Banking, Banking crises and regulation, International financial regulation, Insurance and sustainability, Financial and insurance of large risks (pandemic, cyber), Financial economic of insurance | 2 |
Prof. Winfried Königer | Macroeconomics, Financial Economics, Consumption, Labor Economics, Decisions under Uncertainty | 1 |
Prof. Vesa Pursiainen | Corporate finance, banking and financial intermediation, fintech, private equity and venture capital, household finance, behavioral finance | 2 |
Prof. Angelo Ranaldo | Asset Pricing, Microstructure, International Finance, and FinTech | 1 |
Prof. Markus Schmid | Corporate Finance and Governance, ESG and Sustainable Finance, Household Finance | 1 |
Prof. Tereza Tykvova | Empirical corporate finance, private equity, venture capital | 2 |
Prof. Matthias Weber | Machine learning in taxation | 1 |
You may also bring your own funding, for example via a national grant (please explicitly state this in your application).
2. In a second step:
GPEF PhD students are funded via research assistant positions at the supervisors chair. Actual salaries vary by the employment contract and typically start between 30.000-40.000 CHF in the first year, and reach 60.000 CHF towards the end of the PhD. In addition, the GPEF PhD programme offers generous funding for conference attendance.