WU Vienna is establishing a new Department of Business Analytics and Decision Sciences, with a research focus on predictive and prescriptive analytics in support of data-informed strategic decision-making. This initiative reflects WU’s commitment to strengthening its academic profile at the intersection of analytics, artificial intelligence, and decision sciences.

As part of the department’s launch, approximately 24 new academic positions will be opened. These include 6 professorships, up to 6 tenure-track positions, 6 postdoctoral positions, and 6 prae-doctoral positions.

Call for 2 Full Professors

We are pleased to announce that we are advertising two more positions as full professors, who are expected to have established an excellent international reputation as a researcher in Business Analytics and Decision Sciences.

We are seeking candidates with a methodological focus on machine learning, symbolic or sub-symbolic AI (including deep learning, reinforcement learning, generative AI, and automated decision-making), modern statistics or econometrics, optimization, simulation, and experimentation, algorithmic game theory and/or market design.

The application deadline is January 11, 2026.

To learn more about the call and application process, please visit the website for our job offerings (Job ID 2623).

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