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Recruitment: Doctoral Candidate in Management Science – Portfolio Decision Analysis for Environmental Planning and Management (3-year funded position)

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Are you a recent or upcoming Master’s graduate who is passionate about analytics, willing to work with data and eager to apply decision analysis for driving an environmentally sustainable future?

We are now looking for a Doctoral Student in Management Science for a 3-year funded position.

The position is located in the Department of Information and Service Management. The research at the department is broadly divided into three disciplines: management science, information systems science, and logistics, with topics such as digital service development, service networks, behavioral decision making, and data science. The current research topics of the Management Science group include but are not limited to:

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Analytics
Decision Analysis
Portfolio Decision Analysis
Multi-objective Optimization
Stochastic Optimization
Behavioral Decision Theory
Machine Learning
Productivity Analysis
Data Science

Location

Read, England, United Kingdom

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