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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@ua.ac.be, tel: 03/2204059 ),
and Prof.dr. E. Schoen (Eric.Schoen@ua.ac.be, 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.