WU is currently inviting applications for the position of a full professor of Operations Research Foundations at the Department of Finance Accounting and Statistics. Candidates are expected to have established an international reputation as an outstanding researcher in their field. Depending on the candidate's academic credentials, the employment contract can be concluded either as a permanent employment contract or as a fixed-term employment contract with the option of a permanent extension.

The new professor of Operarions Research Foundations will join the Institute for Statistics and Mathematics at WU's Department of Finance, Accounting and Statistics. Members of the Institute are affiliated with the PhD Label 'Mathematics in Economics and Business', a high-level PhD program. Further, the Institute is responsible for the education in mathematics and statistics in WU's undergraduate programs, to which it also contributes courses in data science and econometrics. The Institute is running the reputed MSc program 'Quantitative Finance' in close cooperation with the Institute of Finance, Banking and Insurance and collaborates with the newly established Department of Business Analytics and Decision Sciences.

We are particularly interested in candidates working in the fields of stochastic and robust optimization, simulation-based methods, machine learning techniques in operations research, or stochastic control. The research portfolio of the ideal candidate should comprise high-level methodological contributions as well as applied research addressing real-world problems in business, economics, or related fields.

Please submit your application via WU's online recruiting tool by July 16, 2025.

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