Selection criteria:

• Academic excellence: Candidates must hold a recognized University Degree and a master’s Degree in Maritime or Finance or Economics or Business Administration or Pure and Applied Sciences. The successful candidates must have very good or excellent grade in the previous programs they have attended and have sufficient knowledge of the English language.

• Innovative research proposal: The candidates should submit a clear idea or question; what they propose to do. Further, they should explain why their proposal is important and identify the additional knowledge they expect to contribute to the relevant literature.

• Reference letters: The candidates should submit at least two (2) reference letters from people they know them at the academic or professional level.

• Other criteria: Other certificates and documents such as academic or professional work (publications, newspaper articles, other research etc.).

• Personal interview

• Acceptable evidence of English language proficiency is considered a G.C.E / I.G.C.S.E exam with a level of at least C or ELTS/IELTS of at least 6.5 or a TOEFL of at least 580 (paper-based test) / 82 (internet-based test). Graduates of an English- language University curriculum are exempted from this requirement. For the Greek language, a certificate of proficiency is a degree from a Greek-speaking secondary school or a Bachelor degree from a higher or higher education institution.

Research Areas:

• One (1) post in Finance in the topic: "Finance"
  Research Advisors: Neophytos Lambertides, n.lambertides@cut.ac.cy , Panayiotis  Andreou, panayiotis.andreou@cut.ac.cy

• One (1) post in Finance in the topic: "Finance/Corporate Governance"
  Research Advisor: Elena Kalotychou, eleni.kalotychou@cut.ac.cy

• One (1) post in Finance in the topic: "Banking or Financial Technology"
  Research Advisor: Demetris Koursaros, demetris.koursaros@cut.ac.cy

• One (1) post in Finance in the topic: "Accounting and Finance"
  Research Advisor: Christodoulos Louca, christodoulos.louca@cut.ac.cy

• One (1) post in Shipping in the topic: "Shipping" or "Shipping Management" or "Shipping Economics or Transportation Logistics" or "Supply Chain Management"
  Research Advisor: Photis Panayides, photis.panayides@cut.ac.cy

• One (1) post in Applied Econometrics in the topic: "Financial Econometrics" or "Macro-econometrics" 
  Research Advisor: Christos S. Savva, christos.savva@cut.ac.cy

• One (1) post in "Computational econometrics" 
  Research Advisors: Erricos Kontoghiorghes, erricos.k@cut.ac.cy

• One (1) post in "Computational methods for large scale data analysis"
  Research Advisors: Erricos Kontoghiorghes, erricos.k@cut.ac.cy

• One (1) post in "Statistics for text mining" 
  Research Advisors: Erricos Kontoghiorghes, erricos.k@cut.ac.cy

• One (1) post in Shipping in the topic: "Green Shipping" or "Maritime Logistics" or "Port Operations Management"
  Research Advisor: Thalis Zis, thalis.zis@cut.ac.cy