The University of Vienna is internationally renowned for its excellence in teaching and research, and counts more than 7,500 academics from all disciplines. This breadth of expertise offers unique opportunities to address the complex challenges of modern society, to develop comprehensive new approaches, and educate the problem-solvers of tomorrow from a multidisciplinary perspective.

The Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics at the University of Vienna invites applications for a

Tenure-Track Professorship in Operations Research

The position

The position:

We welcome applications from outstanding candidates with expertise in Operations Research, Management Science and Business Analytics with a focus on fundamental research in combinatorial and stochastic optimization for business applications. In teaching, the applicant will be involved, inter alia, in the education of fundamentals in mathematics in all study programs of the faculty, esp. in the Master program Business Analytics.

The Tenure Track Professorship in Operations Research will be part of the Department of Business Decisions and Analytics. It will primarily contribute to advancing methodological research in operations research, thereby complementing the department’s existing strengths in prescriptive business analytics, supply chain management, and production and logistics with dedicated methodological expertise. Although formally based in the Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics, the tenure track professorship may engage in close collaboration with researchers at the Department of Statistics and Operations Research. This interdisciplinary cooperation reflects the strong quantitative-analytical orientation of research within the Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics at the University of Vienna. The position also offers opportunities for active involvement in the Oskar-Morgenstern-Doctoral School, providing an excellent environment for doctoral education and research.

Your academic profile:

Doctoral degree/Ph

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We expect the successful candidate to acquire, within three years, proficiency in German sufficient for teaching in bachelor's programmes and for participation in university committees.

We offer:

the opportunity to obtain a permanent position and eventual promotion to full professor; the initial contract as Assistant Professor is limited to six years, after positive evaluation of a qualification agreement the contract becomes permanent as Associate Professor; Associate Professors can be promoted to Full Professor through an internal competitive procedure

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Application documents (in English):

Letter of motivation

Academic curriculum vitae
education and training (PhD Certificate, PDF
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List of publications
link to your own publicly accessible ORCID record, with a complete and current publication lis
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Research statement
most important research achievements (max. 2 pages) and planned future research activities (max. 4 pages
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Teaching and supervision statement
teaching and supervision concept, including a description of the previous and planned priorities in academic teaching and supervision (max. 2 pages
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If you have any questions, please contact:

tenuretrack.personal@univie.ac.at
Only applications submitted through the link "Apply now" below will be considered.

We look forward to new personalities in our team!
The University of Vienna has an anti-discriminatory employment policy and attaches great importance to equal opportunities, the advancement of women and diversity. We lay special emphasis on increasing the number of women in senior and in academic positions among the academic and general university staff and therefore expressly encourage qualified women to apply. Given equal qualifications, preference will be given to female candidates.

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Application deadline: 09/17/2025
Reference no.: 4417