Assistant or Associate Professor of Real Estate Finance

The Finance Area in the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in Atlanta, Georgia is seeking tenure-track faculty candidates at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor of Real Estate Finance, starting in fall 2025. Beyond research and teaching responsibilities as well as service to the Institute, the faculty is expected to lead and grow the real estate program in Scheller College.

Candidates for Assistant or Associate Professor should possess outstanding potential for excellent scholarly research. Seasoned scholars should exhibit a track record of publications in the top journals in finance, economics, and real estate. Junior candidates should be sufficiently advanced in their doctoral work and will need to complete their Ph.D. in Finance or an associated area by July 01, 2025, which are the minimum requirements for the position. Salary and a teaching load of three courses per year are competitive with leading research universities.

The Finance Area consists of nine tenure-track faculty members and includes one endowed chair. Faculty members have diverse backgrounds and pursue a variety of research interests, including asset pricing, corporate finance, banking, household finance, labor finance, FinTech, and machine learning. They publish in the premier outlets of finance and adjacent fields, and their research has received numerous scholarly awards. Additional information about our faculty can be found at https://www.scheller.gatech.edu/academics-research/finance/index.html. Through the Financial Service Innovation Lab (https://fintech.gatech.edu), the finance area collaborates with many companies and has access to many proprietary datasets.

The Scheller College of Business’ Full-time MBA Program is ranked #4 among public universities by Bloomberg BusinessWeek (2023) and #25 overall in U.S. News & World Report (2024). Georgia Tech is one of the nation’s leading research universities and consistently ranks among the top public universities in the country. Atlanta is the 6th largest metropolitan area in the U.S. and serves as a cultural and economic hub for the region.

To apply, please submit the following documents at: https://bit.ly/3RJWKY0

1. A cover letter.
2. Vita including education, research interests/publications, work experience and other relevant information.
3. One or more sample research papers.
4. Three letters of recommendation with your name in the filename (e.g., “Smith_John – Letter of Recommendation.pdf”). Please make sure your name also appears in the body of the recommendation letter. Your letter writers should submit the confidential letters of recommendation to: Recruit-realestate@scheller.gatech.edu.
5. For advanced assistant or associate professors, please submit names and contact information of three to five references. Only references for the top candidates will be requested.

Correspondence should be addressed to the Chair of Real Estate Finance Recruiting Committee. Applications should be sent no later than November 5, 2024. We will start evaluating applications on a rolling basis. Questions pertaining to this search should be sent to: Recruit-realestate@scheller.gatech.edu.

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