PhD Position at the Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne (Aix-en-Provence, France) - Routing and staff p

PhD position: Routing and staff planning for home services

A PhD position is available at the Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne/UMR CNRS LIMOS 6158 at Gardanne (near Aix-en-Provence in the South of France). This thesis is part of the project “Flexible and Intelligent Transportation Systems (FITS)” funded by the French Research Agency (Agence Nationale de la Recherche).

*Subject :* The research pursued by the PhD student will concern the development of new models and original solution methods for the tactical and operational planning of home services. The thesis is driven by important applications in healthcare but could also be extended to maintenance services. The models will include complex constraints as: integrated staff planning and vehicle routing, resource synchronization, time windows, regularity, consistency, equity.  Considering these constraints in vehicle routing problems is relatively new and still challenging. Adding the staff scheduling dimension makes the problem even harder.

Keywords: operations research, combinatorial optimization, algorithmic, vehicle routing

More information about the project and the PhD thesis subject is available at: http://absi.nabil.free.fr/ThesisEcoleDesMines-FITS-2019.pdf

*Candidate profile:* Applicants must have a Master Degree (or equivalent) in Operations Research, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science or any related discipline. Applicants should demonstrate good programming skills and a deep knowledge in combinatorial optimization and integer programming.

*Location:* The PhD student will be located in Gardanne (south of France, near Aix-en-Provence) in the research group Manufacturing Sciences and Logistics (https://www.mines-stetienne.fr/en/research/scientific-departments/manufacturing-sciences-logistics-department-sfl/) of the Georges Charpak Provence Campus of Mines de Saint-Etienne.

*Duration and assumption of duty:* The position is for three years starting as soon as possible in 2019 (The position will remain open until fulfilled).

*Application procedure:* Please send your application electronically (preferably as a single pdf file) including a detailed curriculum vitae and examination results, plus, if available, a list of reference letters and copies of diploma, to: Nabil ABSI (absi@emse.fr).

The thesis is co-supervised by:
Nabil Absi, Professor at Mines Saint-Etienne, Gardanne.
Dominique Feillet, Professor at Mines Saint-Etienne, Gardanne.
Thierry Garaix, Associate Professor at Mines Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne.