MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships at Faculty of Management and Business

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship programme provides funding for excellent postdoctoral researchers of any nationality and any research field. The programme aims to enhance the creative potential of a researcher wishing to acquire new skills through advanced training, international, interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral mobility. Read more about the eligibility criteria, funding and application process of the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships.

The Tampere University will provide support for incoming MSCA Postdoctoral Fellows. The University’s Research Services will facilitate a free of charge online Masterclass during the spring 2026 which helps applicants to continuously develop their proposal and get valuable feedback. Upon receiving the grant, the incoming fellow will receive further support from the supervisor and the International HR Services Team and University’s Research Services.

Tampere University has a unified procedure for selecting postdoctoral candidates for the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship call. The university offers comprehensive support to all applicants through our Masterclass, starting in May, to assist with application preparation. 

To join our faculty:

• Below you can find more information on the MAB faculty’s research groups and professors.
• Identify a research group leader / professor who could act as a suitable supervisor. Contact the person (email addresses: firstname.lastname [at] tuni.fi).
• Deadline for indicating interest and sending the requested material at the MAB faculty is 27.4.2026.
• Follow TAU's guidelines that can be found at MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships at Tampere University 

Please note that we cannot fully guarantee that a suitable supervisor will be found, and that you will be accepted as a MSCA PF candidate.

Centre of Excellence in Tax Systems Research

• Professor Kaisa Kotakorpi
• Professor Jarkko Harju

Center for Innovation and Technology Research (CITER) Research Group

• Professor Leena Aarikka-Stenroos

Customer-Oriented Marketing Research Group

• Associate Professor Valtteri Kaartemo 

Financial Management and Accounting Research Group

• Professor Lili Kihn

Higher Education Group

• Senior Research Fellow Reetta Muhonen
  • Good News from Academia

Information and Knowledge Management

• Professor Hongxiu Li
  • Human-AI collaboration, digitalization, digital sustainability
• Professor Henri Pirkkalainen
  • The dark side of Information Systems Use and Adoption (e.g., technostress), Human-AI companionship, Knowledge work and collaboration in Metaverse
• Associate Professor Nannan Xi
  • VIRTUMER Research Group (Part of Gamification Group)

International Political Economy Research Group

• The group understands International Political Economy (IPE) in a permissive and pluralist way. Permissiveness and pluralism are visible in the group's theoretical as well as methodological approaches. Members of the research group work with various IPE theories as well as with interdisciplinary approaches and seek to cultivate methodological inventiveness in the study of international political economy.
• Associate Professor Anni Kangas

Political Engagement Research Group (POENG)

• Political Engagement Research Group (POENG) focuses on studying political attitudes and behaviour. Our group examines e.g. inequalities in political participation, political trust and efficacy, and various other measures of political engagement. In our recent and ongoing research projects, we particularly investigate political socialization, aiming to provide a deep understanding of how political attitudes and behaviours are formed during childhood and adolescence.
• Professor Elina Kestilä-Kekkonen

Professor of Political Science Tapio Raunio

• His research interests cover representative democracy and political institutions, both in the context of national politics and at the European level, with a specific focus on legislatures, executives, political parties, and foreign policy decision-making. More information is at https://tapioraunio.com/.

Senior Research Fellow Hanna Ojanen

• STRAX: Transforming strategic cultures in contemporary Europe

ManCE, Research Centre for Managing Circular Economy, brings together and consolidates circular economy expertise and strengthens the specialized research on circular economy.

• Head of the Research Centre, Professor Leena Aarikka-Stenroos

Research Group on Strategic and Innovative Organizations

• Professor Elina Mäkinen
• Professor Kalle Pajunen

Research Group on Sustainability and Critical Accounting

• Professor Matias Laine
• Professor Eija Vinnari
• Associate Professor Hannele Mäkelä

RESPMAN Responsible Management Research Group

• Professor Johanna Kujala
  • Action4Commons: Collective stakeholder action for commons: Integrating business-stakeholder value creation with polycentric governance
  • CICAT2025: Circular economy catalysts: From innovation to business ecosystems
  • B2N: Business to nature: Stakeholder-driven value creation in ecosystem services

Space and Political Agency Research Group (SPARG)

• Professor Jouni Häkli
  • Political geography of forced migration

Wastebusters Research Group

• Professor Elina Närvänen