The chairgroup Operations Research and Logistics (ORL) as part of the Social Science Group (SSG) of Wageningen University and positioned within the section “Management Decision Support group” together with “Business Economics” and “Information Technology” groups is searching for a full professor of operations research and logistics (permanent position) who will lead the chair group Operations Research and Logistics (ORL) at Wageningen University.
The measurement of performance according to a broad set of indicators has become increasingly significant within different domains ranging from evaluations of economic performances of some regions to academic ranking of universities, and so on. These rankings are based on composite indices obtained aggregating the indicators. The big issue in ranking different entities is twofold: (i) different indicators are considered; (ii) different weights are used. The latter being the most pernicious. Indeed, it is possible to enlarge the set of dimensions to include additional aspects.
Applications are invited for a doctoral fellowship (PhD) in the working group of Dr Verena Griess, Department of Forest Resources Management, Faculty of Forestry at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
We are looking for a high achieving student whose research will be guided by the question: “How to aid forest management decision makers in a field of increasing complexity?”
The EURO PhD School on Sustainable Supply Chains takes place in Aachen, Germany, from the 26 June - 2 July, 2016. It aims at training PhD students in the area of Sustainable Supply Chains and is organized with the financial support of the Association of European Operational Research Societies (EURO).
Topics:
*Concepts and models for Sustainable Supply Chains: multicriteria decisions, trade-offs between economic, environmental and social objectives
The JRC Institute for Environment and Sustainability has published a vacancy for the auxiliary contract staff position FGIV Researcher - Forest Modeller.
We invite you to participate in the Open Seminar 'Models and decision SUpport tools for integrated FOrest policy development under global change', to be held in Lisbon, February 18.
