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2 Full Professors of Business Analytics and Decision Sciences (Ref.no. 2025-29)

WU is currently inviting applications for multiple faculty positions to launch its new Department of Business Analytics and Decision Sciences. This call focuses on two positions as full professors¹, who are expected to have established an excellent international reputation as a researcher in Business Analytics and Decision Sciences. We are seeking candidates with a methodological focus on machine learning, symbolic or sub-symbolic AI (including deep learning, reinforcement learning, generative AI, and automated decision-making), modern statistics or econometrics, optimization, simulation, and experimentation, algorithmic game theory and/or market design. The application scope of the candidates’ research should complement WU’s existing research. Depending on the candidate’s 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 address complex research questions based on approaches that cross disciplinary boundaries.

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. Applicants with disabilities 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 certification under the University and Family Audit (Audit hochschuleundfamilie) 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: .