PhD Opérations Management and Decision Sciences

The fields that students can specialize in belong to different departments and research centers.

Operations Management not only concerns the traditional creation, production, and delivery of products and services, but it takes a broader view that comprises several areas such as supply chain management, logistics, purchasing management, project management, and new product development. All these fields have a strong operational focus and a potential impact on the successful management of operations.
This subfield is hosted by the OMOR cluster and the OM department.
Recent research interests of our faculty include:
- Environmental management and monitoring
- Humanitarian logistics and relief operations
- Supply Chain Management and coordination

Operations Research concerns both the application of quantitative methods to optimally solve managerial problems and the successful development of decision making. Our faculty performs research on the development of new methods and applications in Operations and Supply Chain management.
This subfield is hosted by the OMOR cluster comprising elements of the IDS and OMdepartments.
Recent research interests of our faculty include:
- Advanced Decision Theory
- Continuous-time Dynamic Games
- Optimal control Theory
- Robust optimization using choice models (applications to Healthcare and Housing)

Statistics & Decision Sciences combine economic, mathematical and computer tools to solve business problems. The approach may involve e.g. model building, analysis of big data, empirical testing of theories, risk management, econometrics and forecasting.
This subfield is hosted by the IDS department and the CREAR research center.
Recent research interests of our faculty include:
- Agent based models of learning
- Assessment of Climate Change
- Extreme Value Theory
- Multivariate Statistics
- Predictive Path Modeling
- Risk analysis & Risk Management