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2 Full Professors of Business Analytics and Decision Sciences (Ref.no. 2025-16)

WU is currently inviting applications for multiple faculty positions to launch its new Department of Business Analytics and Decision Sciences.1 This call focuses on two positions as full professors2, who are expected to have established an excellent international reputation as a researcher in Business Analytics and Decision Sciences with a methodological focus on simulation, optimization, experimentation, algorithmic game theory, and/or market design. The application scope of their research should complement WU’s existing research. Depending on the candidates’ academic credentials, the employment contract can be concluded either as a permanent employment contract or as a fixed-term employment contract with the option of a permanent extension.2

WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business) combines excellence with responsibility. Its rare triple accreditation by EQUIS, AACSB, and AMBA is a guarantee for the highest quality research and teaching in the fields of business, economics, and business law. WU’s research is characterized by a wide diversity of disciplines practiced at WU, allowing researchers to deal with even the most complex of research questions.

International cooperation is very important to WU, and we encourage and support both faculty and student mobility. WU is also very aware of its responsibility to its students, faculty, and staff and is committed to gender equality, equal opportunities, accessibility, family-friendly working conditions, and sustainability.

WU is committed to diversity and inclusion, and qualified women are strongly encouraged to apply. In case of equal qualification, female candidates will be given preference. People with disabilities are encouraged to apply and will be supported during each stage of the recruitment process. Candidates’ qualifications will be assessed in the context of their academic age.

WU has been awarded University and Family Audit (Audit hochschuleundfamilie) certification and assists dual career couples. For further details, please see .

Further details on the call for applications, including a detailed qualification profile, can be found online: .

¹ A parallel call for two full professor positions in the Department of Business Analytics and Decision Sciences with a different methodological focus is currently open (see ). For information on the department’s general profile and additional faculty positions that are or will be advertised, please visit the department’s preliminary website ().
² Employed under salary group A 1 pursuant to the Collective Bargaining Agreement for University Staff [Kollektivvertrag für die Arbeitnehmer/innen der Universitäten], minimum gross yearly salary: €92,460.20; the actual annual gross salary is subject to negotiation.
³ The duration of fixed-term contracts is subject to negotiation.