Open position: Student assistant in Data Science

The University of Lausanne (UNIL) promotes learning, research and living and hosts 14'100 students and nearly 3'800 collaborators, professors, and researchers. Ideally situated along the lake of Geneva, near Lausanne's city center, its campus brings together over 120 nationalities.

At the department of Strategy in the Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC Lausanne), we're seeking to complement our team with student research assistant.


Job Information

Expected start date: As soon as possible
Contract length: 3 months, renewable
Activity rate: 20%-40%
Workplace: Lausanne-Dorigny
Supervisor: Prof. Christian Peukert


Your responsibilities

  • Your activities will be dedicated to research assistantship. Specifically, to help with the collection, coding, organization, and analysis of quantitative data.


Your qualifications

We are looking for one candidate with the following qualifications:

  • Master student, with a profile oriented to Data Science, Computer Science, Business Analytics, Information Systems or Economics

  • Experience in web scraping, databases and data science tools is required (e.g. R, Python, SQL, MongoDB)

  • Very good skills in English

  • The candidate must be serious, precise, and diligent


Your application

Please send your CV, grades transcript and motivation letter to Christian.Peukert@unil.ch


Your benefits

You will work on exciting and rewarding research projects related to digital music, digital copyright, the applications of machine learning in organizations, and more. We offer a nice working place in a multicultural, diversified and dynamic academic environment, opportunities for professional training. Possibilities of continuous training, a lot of activities and other benefits to discover.


Complementary information

Seeking to promote an equitable representation of men and women among its staff, the University encourages applications from women.