2025-2026 Postdoctoral Fellowship Competition

[Jessica Sadler]

On Dec 2, 2024, at 10:45, Karine Hebert <karine...@gerad.ca> wrote:

Dear Steven,

I hope you are doing well. Here's a message to promote GERAD postdoctoral fellowships outside Canada and from our usual networks. We'll be sending a message to all our members, but as a first step, we've selected a few people to circulate in their respective departments and universities, and you're one of them. Could you please take a look at it and pass it on for distribution there and in your other networks if possible ? Have a nice day,

Karine Hebert

 

GERAD is looking to recruit the best candidates for its postdoctoral fellowship competition. That's why we've called on you personally to promote this competition through your respective networks and departments (in your case: the department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland). The candidates we're looking for probably haven't yet worked with our members, may be outside Canada and probably don't know GERAD. Nevertheless, we would be very grateful if you could publicize this competition to let potential candidates know about this opportunity to come and do a research stay in our offices and work with our members.  If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. Please find below, the announcement.

 

Olivier BAHN, M. Ing., Ph. D.

Director, Group for Research in Decision Analysis (GERAD)

Full Professor, Department of Decision Sciences, HEC Montréal

Co-director, Pôle e3c (Environment, Energy and Circular Economy)

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2025-2026 GERAD Postdoctoral Fellowship Competition

Timetable:

Competition opens: November 2024

Application deadline: January 31, 2025

Anticipated notification date: March 2025

 

GERAD* is pleased to announce the opening of its 18th postdoctoral fellowship competition, offering two fellowships of $CA 70,000 each.

We welcome applications in GERAD's areas of research:

• Data valuation for decision making
• Decision support made in complex systems
• Decision support made under uncertainty
• Real-time decision support

Eligibility criteria:

• PhD obtained within the last five years at the time of application(The evaluation committee may take into consideration special circumstances (e.g. maternity, illness)), or you plan to obtain it before GERAD funding begins;
• You have not already been supervised by a GERAD member.

Application conditions:

• The fellowship cannot be combined with another fellowship awarded by a Canadian granting agency (e.g., NSERC, SSHRC, FRQ);
• The postdoctoral fellowship must begin between April 1, 2025, and March 31, 2026;
• The recipient must spend the entire period funded by the fellowship at GERAD.

The file must include:

• A questionnaire to be completed on our platform;
• A description of the research project (maximum two pages, excluding references);
• Identification of two GERAD researchers who could supervise the research;
• A free-format C.V;
• Official doctoral transcripts;
• A maximum of three publications;
• Two letters of recommendation.

The platform will be open to receive applications until January 31, 2025.

Applications will be evaluated by GERAD's scientific committee, using the following criteria. The evaluation committee will not comment on the evaluation conducted:

• Research contributions;
• Academic excellence and quality of the doctoral thesis;
• suitability of the proposed project for a GERAD research team.

Website for more details: https://www.gerad.ca/en/competition

 

GERAD recognizes the essential and necessary contribution of women, aboriginal people, members of visible or ethnic minorities and people with disabilities and is committed to ensuring equal opportunities for all qualified candidates.

 

*The Group for Research in Decision Analysis (GERAD) is a publicly founded multi-university research center founded in 1979 and located in Montreal, Canada. The center brings together specialists in data and decision sciences, computer scientists, applied mathematicians and mathematical engineers. Its mission is to make a significant impact on society through scientific innovation, the transfer of know-how to key sectors of the economy, and the development of decision-support tools. 

 

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