Dear colleagues,

We have a permanent position open in Optimization and Industrial Engineering. Don't hesitate to contact Alexandre Dolgui (alexandre.dolgui@imt-atlantique.fr – tél : +33 2 51 85 82 18) or myself for further information.

Olivier

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Position of Assistant/Associate Professor (fr. Maître Assistant) in Optimization and Industrial Engineering at IMT Atlantique (Nantes, France)

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IMT Atlantique (École Nationale Supérieure Mines-Télécom Atlantique Bretagne Pays de la Loire) is an elite graduate school of engineering and international research center under the authority of the French Ministry of Industry and Digital Communication. Resulting from the recent merger on 1 January 2017 of Télécom-Bretagne and Mines-Nantes, it is a school of the Institut Mines-Télécom (the leading group in France for study and research in engineering and management: includes 12 engineering institutes and 1 business school located throughout France).

Based on 3 different campuses (Brest, Rennes and Nantes), IMT Atlantique aims to combine energy and digital technology to transform society and industry through education, research and innovation in order to become an international reference in this area. Each year, IMT Atlantique guides approximately 2.300 students in engineering, Masters of Science and Ph.D. programs. Its research activities, at the crossroads of business and higher education, are led by 290 researchers which produce over 1000 publications each year and 18M € of funded research and development. Its courses are based on cutting-edge research performed in 6 joint research laboratories: GEPEA, IRISA, LATIM, Lab-STICC, LS2N and SUBATECH.

The Department of Automation, Production and Computer Sciences (DAPI: Département Automatique, Productique et Informatique) of IMT Atlantique is located on the Nantes Campus. The department employs around one hundred people, forty of which are full professors or assistant/associate professors (fr. Maître Assistant). The research topics of DAPI include Control, Robotics, Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Mathematical Decision Making, and Software Engineering. DAPI is a member of the LS2N CNRS research laboratory (http://ls2n.fr/) recently created from the merging of the IRCCyN and LINA laboratories.

The candidate will be integrated into the Optimization and Decision Aiding group of DAPI and the Logistics and Production System (SLP) Team of LS2N. The research in SLP focuses on analyzing, modeling and solving optimization and decision making problems which appear in logistics and production systems at strategic, tactical and operational levels. The candidate will be asked to focus his research on domains related to the Factories of the Future (FoF) initiative of the European Union Framework Programme for Research and Innovation. Collaboration with the other IMT Atlantique/LS2N team, TASC, in constraint programming, will be encouraged.

The candidate will teach in the industrial engineering and optimization curriculum of IMT Atlantique, in particular the IMT Atlantique engineering programme and/or the MOST international Master of Science. (Management and Optimization of Supply Chains and Transport).

Missions:

The candidate will participate in education, academic and collaborative research objectives. He/she will be actively involved in local, national and international partnerships of DAPI and LS2N. He/she will be asked to take administrative responsibilities in teaching programs, research projects or institutional endeavors.

Education:

• The candidate will be involved in the IMT Atlantique educational programs, particularly those of the DAPI the engineering curriculum and the MOST MSc. Teaching experience in some of the following subjects is required:

o Industrial engineering o Design of production systems o Production planning and scheduling o Inventory control and demand forecasting o Combinatorial optimization, robust optimization and decision making o Metaheuristics, heuristic and exact optimization algorithms o Programming languages (e.g., Java, Python, C++)

• IMT Atlantique is particularly interested in qualitative and innovative teaching methods. A strong investment in pedagogical activities related to his/her courses is expected.

• IMTA trains engineers for a quickly evolving industry. The capacity of the candidate to teach in this context and propose and supervise student projects in collaboration with industry is desired.

Research and collaborative projects

The candidate will perform his/her research in the fields of the Logistics and Production Systems team: design, planning and scheduling of production systems, optimization of transportation and logistics networks, risk assessment and control in services and industrial systems.

He/she will develop optimization and decision-aiding tools in the framework of projects related to Factories of the Future (FoF). This work will be related to the optimization of production systems, logistics networks or supply chain, in connection with innovative communication technology. Research experience in production scheduling, in particular in a stochastic, robust or dynamic context, will be appreciated.

The recruited candidate will be expected to publish his/her work in high-level international journals and conferences. He/she will also be expected to supervise master and PhD students’ research. His/her research will be conducted through local, national, European, and international projects.

Finally, the candidate will be expected to propose collaborative research projects with industry and contribute to enhancing the overall reputation of IMT Atlantique.

According to the Maître Assistant status,*the candidate must have the nationality of a European Community country, member of EEC.*

He/she will have strong competences in optimization and industrial engineering as well as:

• Skill and motivation for teaching and research, in particular in connection with industry. • Ability to propose, obtain, and participate in research and applied research projects. • Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work in projects. • Open-minded, self-assessment capacity. • Interest and openness to the world of business and innovation in education. • Scientific publications. • Excellent practice of English. • Good computer programming skills.

APPLICATION DETAILS

For further information, contact Alexandre Dolgui, Head of DAPI – alexandre.dolgui@imt-atlantique.fr – tél : +33 2 51 85 82 18

The deadline for submitting an application is 23 April 2017.

To obtain the complete application dossier, please contact Human Resource Services:

Florence MOULET–florence.moulet@imt-atlantique.fr - tél : +33 2 51 85 83 63

or

Jean-Philippe ROULLAND –jean-philippe.roulland@imt-atlantique.fr – tél: +33 2 51 85 83 54

Institut Mines Telecom Atlantique 4 rue Alfred Kastler BP 20722 44307 Nantes CEDEX 3.

Website of Institut Mines Telecom Atlantique:http://www.imt-atlantique.fr