Research Assistant/Doctoral Student (f/m/d) in the Research Data Center

at  Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE

SAFE is seeking to fill the position of a

The research assistant/doctoral student will be part of the research group that designs and builds a historical German firm and stock market database from historical data sources starting in the late 19th century. The project is part of the “Financial and corporate research from a long-term perspective” project funded by the Academy of Sciences and Literature in the Academies’ Programme. The construction process of the database includes extracting, transforming, and loading raw data (derived from scans of historical sources) into a relational database. After that, economic entities are identified for each reporting year, linked over time, and merged across sources. The database will be enriched with publicly available data (e.g., georeferencing and Wikidata). After completing data validation procedures, the database will be made available to the research community. The database will provide unique research opportunities that PhD students can benefit from when writing their thesis. The research assistant/doctoral student is invited to contribute to SAFE’s research agenda in this area. As a member of the Data Center team, the research assistant/doctoral student will contribute to the center’s mission to create new European, combining and processing existing data sets.