Post-Doctoral Research Position at Imperial College London

The Analytics & Operations group at Imperial College Business School is seeking applications for a Research Associate in the area of optimization under uncertainty, in particular in the fields of (distributionally) robust optimization and stochastic programming, with applications to energy systems. Applicants must hold a PhD in Operations Research, Applied Mathematics or a related field and have strong mathematical skills.

The successful candidate will conduct research with Wolfram Wiesemann from the Analytics & Operations group at Imperial College Business School. The position is funded through EPSRC grant EP/R045518/1, which is conducted in collaboration with researchers from the Energy Futures Laboratory as well as several other departments at Imperial College London.

The Operations & Analytics group at Imperial College Business School studies all aspects of theoretical and practical decision-making, with applications to operations management, energy and finance. Faculty members regularly publish in leading academic journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, Mathematical Programming, Mathematics of Operations Research and SIAM Journal on Optimization. The group maintains close relations with the Computational Optimization Group at the Department of Computing, Imperial College London.

The position is full time and fixed term for up to 18 months. Application should be submitted electronically via https://www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/description/BUS00201/research-associate-optimization-under-uncertainty. The submission deadline is 10 November 2019.

Informal enquiries should be directed to Wolfram Wiesemann directly: ww@imperial.ac.uk. More information about our work can also be found on our website: http://wp.doc.ic.ac.uk/wwiesema/.