ifo Institut – Leibniz-Institut / für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e. V.

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Careers at the ifo Institute

Our goal is to help shape the economic debate. That is why we are looking for female and male economists who want to achieve research excellence. We will help you reach your goals by providing excellent research conditions plus graduate schools and collaborations with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, TU Dresden, and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. In addition, we offer a mentoring program for female economists, and our CESifo network, which gives you access to international researchers from all over the world. You can also further your career outside of research – because we systematically support the professional development of our staff through workshops, seminars, and further training.


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Why Join Us?

Excellent research thrives best when economists feel at ease, can exchange ideas with each other, and have many opportunities for discussion to third-party professionals. Our international CESifo networkorganizes many conferences with top-class guests, and guest researchers regularly visit the Institute. We think it’s important to include scientific perspectives and facts in the economic debate. We see ourselves as a team that creates knowledge together – and that’s what makes us special.


Family Is Close to Our Hearts

We realize how important it is for employees, both in the academic and non-academic areas, to achieve a healthy work-life balance. That’s why we offer parents flexible working hours, attractive home office arrangements, and training opportunities even during parental leave. In addition, children are always welcome at our in-house parties. As part of the Bavarian Family Pact, we are in continuous talks with other organizations on how we can develop our family-friendly approach.


Optimum Working Conditions

Doctoral studentspostdocs, and non-academic staff can continue to gain further qualifications with us, which means that we are able to provide high-quality work in both academic and non-academic areas. In 2019 we received the “HR Excellence in Research” award from the European Commission. This marks our success in creating an ideal working environment for excellent research


DIVERSITY Writ Large

Our credo is diversity and equality: the ifo Institute values diversity and actively promotes equal opportunities for all employees regardless of their origin, religion, belief, disability, age, or sexual orientation. We welcome open-minded people who enjoy working as part of a diverse team. We strive for a gender balance and focus on internationality when recruiting. Female doctoral students receive special training opportunities and are assigned a female mentor. ifo also supports female postdocs to take part in the Leibniz Mentoring Programme. These measures are regularly TÜV-certified.




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PhD student (w/m/d 75%)
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Applied Data Scientist/PostDoc (f/m/d)
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