New visiting researchers joins the School as part of Malmsten Early Career Scholar 2024
Jakob Molinder, Associate Professor in Economic History at Uppsala University and Ali Mohammadi, Associate Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Copenhagen Business School, are the two new visiting researchers at the School of Business, Economics and Law within the framework of the Malmsten Early Career Scholar 2024, a research programme funded by the Richard C Malmsten Memorial Foundation.
In the research programme Malmsten Early Career Scholar 2024, the School of Business, Economics and Law aims to further improve its research expertise by targeting promising researchers who are at the beginning of their careers. The aim is to strengthen long-term research collaborations and build research networks.
Jakob Molinder and Ali Mohammadi will work 10% as visiting researchers at the Department of Economy and Society for two years, starting during autumn 2024.
The Scholars
Jakob Molinder is Associate Professor in Economic History at Uppsala University. There he also leads the Uppsala History of Inequality and Labor Lab. Jakob's research focuses on labour markets and economic inequality from a historical perspective, with a particular focus on urban economic and social geography and how geographical development has affected wages and incomes over time. At the School of Business, Economics and Law, he will teach a course in data processing and visualization in R. He will also collaborate with researchers at the department on projects related to labour market issues and economic inequality in a historical perspective.
Jakob Molinder - Uppsala University (uu.se)
Ali Mohammadi is Associate Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, at Copenhagen Business School. Ali is also a research fellow at the Danish Finance Institute and the Stockholm School of Economics. Ali’s research is multidisciplinary and focuses on the intersection of innovation, entrepreneurship, and finance. His research has been published in top-ranking journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Management Science, and Research Policy. The scholarship will go toward his project on “Building knowledge-intensive industry on the public science base: a person-centered perspective”. The research will focus on the career choices of PhD graduates. He will also explore the role of PhD graduates in companies' research and development.
Ali Mohammadi | CBS - Copenhagen Business School
The Richard C Malmsten Memorial Foundation was established in 1983, as a large donation from Erik Malmsten, merchant and grandson of Richard Malmsten. The purpose of the foundation is to “promote academic economic research and education at the University of Gothenburg”.
Read more on the foundation's website: Stiftelsen Richard C Malmstens minne, Göteborg (malmstensstiftelse.se)