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Job Market /career perspectives

Tinbergen Institute (TI) offers excellent job placement prospects. Our intensive job placement service and the extensive international networks of TI’s research fellows and PhD supervisors secure placements in leading national and international academic and private institutions for our PhD students.


Meet the Tinbergen Institute 2025-2026 Job Market Candidates and discover the profiles and their personal websites.

Job market preparation

Tinbergen Institute offers facilities to PhD students in their final year who are about to enter the (international) academic job market. TI organizes a series of workshops and mock interview sessions in collaboration with the three universities to assist PhD students in successfully preparing for the academic job market in general and in particular for the European Job Market (EJME) and AEA.

 
Eric Bartelsman

Placement Director: Professor Eric (E.J.) Bartelsman, Ph: +31 (0)20 598 6167
Placement Assistant: Christina Månsson 

Placements
The first Tinbergen Institute PhD student graduated in 1990. In 2025, the number of TI PhD alumni has increased to over 800. Roughly half of our alumni work in research universities all over the world. View selected recent placements and all placement records.

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