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Faculty Position in Management Science/Business Analytics at Imperial College Business School

  • 1.  Faculty Position in Management Science/Business Analytics at Imperial College Business School

    Posted 10-03-2021 12:46

    The Analytics and Operations group at Imperial College Business School is seeking qualified applicants for the post of Assistant or Associate or Professor with PhD in Business, Management, Computer Science, Operations Research, Statistics, Engineering.

    For candidates applying for Assistant Professor position, it is expected that your degree would have been obtained before September 2022 for a 7-year career-track programme.

    The candidate should demonstrate capability for high-quality innovative research in their area, a strong research agenda and pipeline, and a line of research relevant to Data Science, Business Analytics, Operations Research, Operations Management, Information Science/MIS. 

    In addition to above, for appointment at Associate or Professor level, candidates are required to have a strong-track record of publications in leading journals in Operations Management and Management Science, an international reputation or impact, as well as leadership in their area of research.

    Located in the heart of London, Imperial College Business School offers an attractive research environment and teaching loads with competitive salaries. Research in the Operations group is interdisciplinary, and faculty regularly publish in top-tier journals. The new Imperial Business Analytics Centre provides strong links with industry and allows us to work on projects with high practical impact.

    Please see our Further Particulars for more information about the College and the benefits available to staff.

    Interested candidates should apply here: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/description/BUS00374/assistantassociate-professor-management-sciencebusiness-analytics and include their CV along with the application form, cover letter, research statement, teaching statement and evidence of teaching scores (where applicable).  Interviews may start before the closing date, depending on the volume of applications.

    Candidates who wish to obtain more information about the position and Imperial College Business School before applying can contact Dr Jiahua Wu, Associate Professor of Operations, Email: j.wu@imperial.ac.uk.

    For further information on the recruitment process please contact: Maria Monteiro, Senior Appointments and Welcome Service Manager, email: m.monteiro@imperial.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 207 594 5498

    Closing date: 01 November 2021 (midnight GMT).   

    We are committed to equality of opportunity, to eliminating discrimination and to creating an inclusive working environment for all. We therefore encourage candidates to apply irrespective of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion and belief, gender identity, sex, or sexual orientation. We are an Athena SWAN Silver Award winner, a Disability Confident Leader and a Stonewall Diversity Champion.

    The College is a proud signatory to the San-Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), which means that in hiring and promotion decisions, we evaluate applicants on the quality of their work, not the journal impact factor where it is published. For more information, see https://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/about-imperial-research/research-evaluation/

     The College believes that the use of animals in research is vital to improve human and animal health and welfare. Animals may only be used in research programmes where their use is shown to be necessary for developing new treatments and making medical advances. Imperial is committed to ensuring that, in cases where this research is deemed essential, all animals in the College's care are treated with full respect, and that all staff involved with this work show due consideration at every level. http://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/about-imperial-research/research-integrity/animal-research

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    Jiahua Wu
    Associate Professor of Operations
    Imperial College Business School
    London
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