Belgium : Vacancies for MOTIVATED RESEACHERS at Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

Ghent University,Faculty of Economics and Business Administration has vacancies for MOTIVATED RESEACHERS (M/F) In the field of Operations Research To start between 01/03/09 and 01/10/09

Research field

 The Research Group Operations Research and Scheduling conducts research in the following fields:

• Project planning: planning of projects (such as IT projects, construction projects, ...) under limited availability of resources, as an alternative for commercial software planning tools such as MS project, PrimaVera.
• Hospital planning: staffing and scheduling of personnel, Operation Room planning, patient planning and planning of various resources (scanners, beds,…).
• Project control: follow-up of time and cost of a project during project progress by means of Earned Value Management .

This research field is well known under several names, such as Operations Research, Combinatorial Optimisation, Computer Science,… and is discussed in detail on the following internet sites:

or www.informs.org

www.projectmanagement.ugent.be

Job description

• You carry out academic and applied research in the field of Operations Research (optimisation,decision making, quantitative decision techniques,…).
• You develop new concepts, algorithms and applications in the expertise area of optimisation, with an emphasis on the planning of personnel and resources in hospitals (health care optimisation) and project scheduling environments.
• You aim at holding a doctoral degree, after approximately 3 to 4 years research.
• You are prepared to give exercise sessions (preferably in Dutch) to classes with commercial engineers and/or civil engineers. 
  

Profile

• You have a dynamic personality and a quantitative mind.
• You are holder of a university degree (preferably commercial engineer, applied economic sciences, civil engineer, bio engineer or a master's degree in IT or Computer Science).
• You have a wide interest in optimisation applications and you really want to complete research in this field.
• You are familiar with at least one higher program language (e.g. C, C++, Visual Basic, Java) or you are prepared to make efforts for learning a program language.
• You can work independently, accurately and systematically.
• You have a very good knowledge of the English language (both orally and in writing).

Offer

• A young, dynamic and stimulating work environment.
• A contract as full-time scientific employee within the Ghent University.
• Contact and cooperation with prominent national and international research groups and companies.
• Possibility to present research results on important international conferences.
• Extralegal advantages: bicycle compensation, advantages in the UGent facilities (GUSB) and the 

Interested?

Feel free to contact Prof. Mario Vanhoucke, promotor of these research projects, by e-mail tomario.vanhoucke@UGent.be  or send your CV to

Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

Secretariat Department EB08,

To the attention of Prof. Mario Vanhoucke,

Tweekerkenstraat 2, B-9000 Ghent

Belgium

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