Thursday, July 12, 2018

[DMANET] 3-year PhD Position in Multi-Objective Optimization (Linz, Austria)

The Institute of Production and Logistics Management at the Johannes Kepler University Linz is inviting applications for a 3-year PhD position within the FWF-funded project

"Multi-Objective Mixed Integer Programming"

Starting date: September 1, 2018.

The project concerns the development of generic branch-and-bound based methods for bi-objective and three-objective (mixed) integer optimization problems. The successful candidate should have

- Master's degree in Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Computer Science or a related field
- C++/python programming skills
- experience with Gurobi or CPLEX
- a background in mathematical programming (especially mixed integer programming) and optimization
- a strong interest in multi-objective optimization

The salary follows FWF-rules for doctoral candidates: https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/research-funding/personnel-costs/ <https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/research-funding/personnel-costs/>
Participation and presentations at international scientific conferences are expected and will be funded.

If you are interested in working in a young international research team at one of the nicest campus universities in Austria, please send the following documents

- motivation letter
- detailed CV
- certificates
- list of MSc courses and grades
- Master's thesis (if in another language than English, a three-page abstract in English)
- reference letter/contact details of references
- list of publications (if any)

to sophie.parragh@jku.at <mailto:sophie.parragh@jku.at> (Prof. Sophie Parragh) until July 31, 2018.
Applications will be considered until the position is filled.


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