[DMANET] PhD position at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) concerning liner shipping network design

Dear all,

A 3-year PhD position in Operations Research is vacant at DTU Management Engineering. The PhD project is financed by the Danish Council for Strategic Research and by DTU and will be carried out in collaboration with our industrial collaborator Maersk Line.

Responsibilities and tasks 
The PhD project is part of a larger project concerning container liner networks. Container ships usually sail on fixed routes following a fixed schedule, quite similar to how public busses operate. The choice of routes and schedules can have a large impact on the profitability of the container line business and therefore we are interested in applying operations research techniques to optimize the network. A single route may sometimes be operated by several companies in collaboration using vessel sharing agreements. This put further constraints on the network design since it may be complicated to change the routes that are agreed upon by several companies.

The aim of the PhD project is to develop methods for constructing container liner networks and improving existing networks. It is desirable for the method to take vessel sharing agreements into account. When changing an existing network it is desirable to make gentle changes such that the disruption caused by the network re-design will be small. The PhD project will be carried out under the supervision of Professors Stefan Røpke and David Pisinger.

The applicant is also expected to contribute to teaching at the department and must take courses equivalent to 30 ECTS points during the studies.

Qualifications 
The applicant should have a strong background in Operations Research or related subjects. This background must be documented by courses, MSc / BSc theses and/or publications. Good English skills and programming experience is expected.

Further information and application process
Please see http://www.man.dtu.dk/english/About-the-Department/Vacant-positions for further information and for applying for the position. For questions, please contact Professor Stefan Røpke, ropke@dtu.dk or Professor David Pisinger, dapi@dtu.dk.



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