Student Assistant for the Department of Management

 Do you want to see how research works from the inside? Are you interested in how life events outside work reshape careers and labor markets? How do divorce, criminal records, or losing a job leave lasting marks on how people find work and how firms adjust?

Residuals Lab (https://www.tundecserpes.com/reslab) at the Department of Management, Aarhus University, has an opening for a student assistant, starting March 1, 2026 and continuing until you complete your master’s degree. You will handle administrative and practical tasks in research projects that study social market frictions.

Your tasks:

• You will support research projects that combine population registers with government agency records.
• You will pass an approval process and become user of Statistics Denmark confidential register data.
• You will prepare and document datasets.
• You will coordinate with owners of external data.
• You will attend weekly all hands meetings during the academic year (flexible during exam season).

A central task involves working with existing data pipelines written in SAS and other languages. These pipelines process very large datasets, and you maintain and adapt the scripts that run them. External collaborators develop machine-learning scripts that feed into these pipelines. You execute and monitor these scripts, then integrate their output into project datasets. Throughout this work, you maintain clear documentation of data workflows.

We need you to:

• Work independently and follow structured instructions.
• Be enrolled in a master’s degree program at Aarhus University.
• Have documented experience working with SAS, Python is a bonus.
• Have experience working with very large datasets.
• Communicate both orally and in writing in English and preferably in Danish.

In return, we offer:

• Work in a small research environment where we shape tasks around your strengths and interests.
• Close collaboration with me, Tünde Cserpes, and frequent interaction with researchers from several institutions, ranging from research assistants to full professors, including collaborating faculty from a partner business school in Japan and researchers from the Rockwool Foundation.
• Mentoring for students interested in applying to competitive PhD programs and access to an alumni network of previous research assistants.

About the department

The Department of Management is part of Aarhus BSS, Aarhus University – a top 100 university. Aarhus BSS has achieved the triple-crown AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS accreditations.

The department has an international research and teaching environment, employs approximately 160 Danish and international researchers, academic staff, and PhD students. We excel in business management, including strategy, innovation, marketing, organisation, digitalisation, and accounting. Our aim is to deliver high-quality research, with a strong emphasis on publishing in leading academic journals and presenting at recognised conferences.

You can read more about the Department of Management at: http://mgmt.au.dk.

Contact information

To discuss the position, schedule a 15-minute conversation with Tünde at https://app.usemotion.com/meet/reslab/y4b5dk9

If you need help uploading your application or have questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact HR supporter Line Greve Brunhøi email: lgb@au.dk.

Practical information

The average weekly working hours are approximately 8 hours, and the workplace is Universitetsbyen 61-63, 8000 Aarhus C.

Applications must be submitted electronically and received no later than January 26, 2026. Start date is March 1, 2026, or as soon as possible thereafter. Please send us your CV and a two-paragraph argument explaining why you can do the tasks listed and how you meet the criteria in the “We need you to” section.
 
 

Requirements and terms

You will be employed as a hourly-paid student assistant in accordance with the current collective agreement between the Danish Ministry of Taxation and HK stat.

Aarhus University’s ambition is to be an attractive and inspiring workplace for all and to foster a culture in which each individual has opportunities to thrive, achieve and develop. We view equality and diversity as assets, and we welcome all applicants.

The application must be submitted via Aarhus University’s recruitment system, which can be accessed under the job advertisement on Aarhus University's website.