Welcome Aboard: International Recruitment News

HSE has been recruiting international faculty for several years now, but there are some novelties in 2015. The HSE Look is glad to present newly recruited faculty so as to help colleagues connect with each other: in the October issue we present faculty members who start their work in tenure-track positions, and will introduce this year’s post-docs in December.

HSE has been recruiting international faculty for several years now, but there are some novelties in 2015. As in previous years, some faculty members are hired for tenure-track, that is, a three year contract followed by a review and, with positive results, another three year contract with a review after which the faculty member can become tenured and employed by HSE indefinitely.  HSE also recruits researchers for post-doctoral fellowships for one year, with a possibility of renewal.  This year HSE has also recruited two faculty members for tenured position from the start: we are glad to congratulate new colleagues Dmitriy Makarov(PhD of London School of Economics in Finance)who joins the International College of Economics and Financeand Vadim Vologodsky(PhD of Harvard University)who joins Faculty of Mathematics.

We would also like to congratulate colleagues who passed their final and interim reviews this year: Fabian Slonimczyk (PhD of University of Massachusetts Amherst)and Udara Peiris (PhD in Financial Economics of University of Oxford)both Associate Professorsat the International College of Economics and Finance, received tenured positions for their outstanding work at HSE.

Eight colleagues have successfully passed their interim reviews and continue their work at HSE:

Han Hyun Jeong, Assistant Professor at the School of Business Administration (Faculty of Business and Management);

Cemal Arbatli, Assistant Professor at the Department of Theoretical Economics (Faculty of Economic Sciences);

Kosmas Marinakis, Assistant Professor at the International College of Economics and Finance and at the Department of Theoretical Economics (Faculty of Economic Sciences);

Ksenia Panidi, Assistant Professor of the Department of Applied Economics (Faculty of Economic Sciences) and Academic Supervisor of the HSE/NES Programme in Economics;

Alexei Zakharov, Assistant Professor at the Department of Theoretical Economics (Faculty of Economic Sciences);

Vladimir Sokolov, Assistant Professor at the International College of Economics and Finance and Senior Research Fellow at the International Laboratory of Financial Economics;

Ekim Arbatli, Assistant Professor at the School of Political Science (Faculty of Social Sciences);

Olga Mayorova, Associate Professor of the School of Sociology (Faculty of Social Sciences), Deputy Head of the International Laboratory for Applied Network Research.

The HSE Look is glad to present newly recruited faculty so as to help colleagues connect with each other: in the October issue we present faculty members who start their work in tenure-track positions, and will introduce this year’s post-docs in December.

 Faculty of Computer Science (Moscow)

Bruno Frederic Bauwens , PhD of Ghent University (Belgium), Assistant Professor at the Big Data and Information Retrieval School

Attila Kertesz-Farkas , PhD of University of Szeged (Hungary), Assistant Professor at the School of Data Analysis and Artificial Intelligence





Faculty of Economic Sciences (Moscow)

Alexander Tarasov , PhD of Penn State University (USA), Assistant Professor at the Department of Theoretical Economics

Victoria Dobrynskaya , PhD of London School of Economics and Political Science (UK), Assistant Professor at the Department of Finance

Luca Gelsomini , PhD of University of Warwick (UK), Assistant Professor at the International College of Economics and Finance

Dmitry Livdan , PhD of University of Pennsylvania and of The City University of New York (USA), Senior Research Fellow at the International Laboratory of Financial Economics of the International College of Economics and Finance

St. Petersburg School of Economics and Management

Yulia Paramonova , PhD of University of Michigan (USA), Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics

Sergey Slobodyan , PhD of Washington University (USA), Associate Professor at the Department of Economics

Faculty of Humanities (Moscow)

Oded Schechter , PhD of University of Chicago (USA), Assistant Professor at the School of Philosophy

St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Humanities

Seongsoo Choi , PhD of Yale University (USA), Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology

Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov , PhD of Stanford University (USA),  Associate Professor at the Department of History




Faculty of Communications, Media and Design (Moscow)

Panagiotis Kompatsiaris , PhD of University of Edinburgh (UK), Assistant Professor at the School of Media







School of Management (Perm)

Aron Scott Spencer , PhD of University of California, Irvine (USA), Assistant Professor at the School of Management









Faculty of Mathematics (Moscow)

Alexandra Skripchenko , Candidate of Sciences of the Moscow State University (Russia), Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics








Faculty of Social Sciences (Moscow)

Natalia Karmaeva , PhD of Bielefeld University (Germany), Assistant Professor at the Institute of Education

Dionysios Zoumpalidis , PhD of University of Cyprus (Republic of Cyprus), Assistant Professor at the Institute of Education

Iftikhar Ahmad Lodhi , PhD of National University of Singapore (Singapore), Assistant Professor at the Public Policy Department