Description
WU is currently inviting applications for multiple faculty positions to launch its new Department of Business Analytics and Decision Sciences. This call focuses on two positions as full professors[1], 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 scope of the candidates’ research should complement WU’s existing research. 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.[2]
WU Vienna University of Economics and Business combines excellence with responsibility.
Its rare triple accreditation by EQUIS, AACSB, and AMBA is a guarantee for the highest quality research and teaching in the fields of business, economics, and business law. WU’s research is characterized by a wide diversity of disciplines practiced at WU, allowing researchers to address complex research questions based on approaches that cross disciplinary boundaries.
International cooperation is very important to WU, and we encourage and support both faculty and student mobility. WU is also very aware of its role as a responsible university, ensures barrier-free accessibility, provides a family-friendly workplace, and is committed to the principles of equitable opportunities and sustainability.
WU is committed to diversity and inclusion, and qualified women are strongly encouraged to apply. In case of equal qualification, female candidates will be given preference. Applicants with disabilities will be supported during each stage of the recruitment process. Candidates’ qualifications will be assessed in the context of their academic age.
WU has been awarded certification under the University and Family Audit (Audit hochschuleundfamilie) and assists dual career couples. For further details, please see https://www.wu.ac.at/en/careers/job-portal.
Further details on the call for applications, including a detailed qualification profile, can be found online: https://www.wu.ac.at/en/careers/job-portal/jobs/professorships.
[1] Employed under salary group A 1 pursuant to the Collective Bargaining Agreement for University Staff [Kollektivvertrag für die Arbeitnehmer/innen der Universitäten], minimum gross yearly salary: €92,460.20; the actual annual gross salary is subject to negotiation
[2] The duration of fixed-term contracts is subject to negotiation.
Requirements
A) Qualifications
The successful candidates are expected to have established an international reputation as researchers in their field and to have outstanding qualifications. Candidates’ qualifications will be assessed in the context of their academic age on the basis of the following criteria:
a) A solid academic qualification (e.g. PhD, habilitation) in business analytics and decision sciences, including operations research, management science, information systems, statistics, artificial intelligence, data science, applied mathematics, applied computer science, or a related area;
b) An outstanding international reputation for high-quality scholarship in in Business Analytics and Decision Sciences, especially by having demonstrated the ability to apply advanced methodologies from machine learning, symbolic or sub-symbolic AI (including deep learning, reinforcement learning, generative AI, and automated decision-making), modern statistics or econometrics, simulation, optimization, and experimentation, algorithmic game theory and/or market design. This expertise should be evidenced by publications in top-tier journals in a field that complements WU’s existing research. Examples of such fields include, but are not limited to:
Climate, Energy, Mobility
Crisis Management and Security
Culture, Creativity, Tourism, Sports
Health, Livable Society-
Social Network and Market Platforms;
c) Excellent teaching qualifications at undergraduate and graduate levels;
d) Proven international experience;
e) Experience in attracting research funding;
f) Leadership qualities;
g) Gender and diversity management skills.
B) What we expect from the successful candidate
The successful candidate is expected to perform teaching activities at all levels (bachelor’s, master’s, PhD/doctorate, and executive education), both in the classroom and in distance-learning formats. The holder of this position is expected to teach 8 weekly credit hours.
We expect the new professors to play a key role in establishing and developing the new Department Business Analytics and Decisions Sciences at WU, as well as its associated research fields and teaching programs. The new professors are expected to actively participate in academic self-governance and third-mission activities at WU.
The successful candidates will have a strong interest in collaborating with and developing young researchers and junior faculty together with their peers at the department. Collaboration with researchers at other WU departments is expected, as is a demonstrated willingness to publish in the journals included in WU’s Star journal list (https://www.wu.ac.at/fileadmin/wu/h/research/WU-STAR-List_2024.pdf).
