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The Faculty of Applied Economics has a full-time vacancy
(m/f) for a


Doctoral Grant


at the


Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Sciences


for the
project


Statistical experimental design for large-scale experimentation in
marketing and product development





Job description. You will prepare a Ph.D.
thesis of the research project described below. In doing so, you will apply for
externally funded research grants. You will contribute to the research of the
Department and to resulting publications. You may be involved in some limited
teaching-related activities in the field of the Department.





Project description. The project is concerned with
the construction of programs of experiments in marketing and industry. These
are used to study the impact of various factors on a response variable. The
settings of the factors are often chosen according to a so-called orthogonal
array. In this project, several methods will be explored to find arrays for
large numbers of factors with various numbers of settings. Also, methods for
arranging these arrays in subsets will be sought. This is because, in marketing
experiments, each respondent has to evaluate a separate subset. In industrial
experiments, subsets are important too, because it is usually only possible to
make small numbers of observations under homogeneous conditions.





Profile and requirements. You have a Masters
degree or equivalent in commercial engineering or a field related to
Mathematics or Statistics. Your teaching and research qualities are compatible
with the policies of the University
of Antwerp . You can provide evidence of an excellent
academic record. You can express yourself well in written and spoken English.
You share our enthusiasm for scientific research.





Our offer. We offer a full-time position,
under the conditions of the Dehousse grants, as a doctoral fellow for two
years, with the possibility of renewal for a further two-year period after
positive evaluation. The expected date of appointment is October 1st, 2007.
Students in the final year of their degree course are allowed to apply.





More information. Prof. dr. P. Goos (Peter.Goos@..., tel: 03/2204059 ),
and Prof.dr. E. Schoen (Eric.Schoen@...,
tel: 03/2204095 ).





Interested? Please fill out the mandatory
application form @ http://www.ua.ac.be/vacatures,
or call 00 32 (0)3 265 31 53, and send it to the University of Antwerp, Campus
Middelheim, Personnel Department (cel AP), Middelheimlaan 1, BE-2020 Antwerpen,
Belgium, no later than 9 May, 2007.