The Operations Management Research Group at KU Leuven, Belgium, invites applications for a full-time PhD position focused on data-driven methods for integrating human preferences and fairness considerations into scheduling processes. This research project aims to advance scheduling in contexts such as surgery, patient, or staff allocation by leveraging multi-objective optimization and machine learning approaches, with a particular emphasis on analyzing efficiency-fairness trade-offs. The positio...

The PhD position titled 'Advanced On-board Control for Heat Pumps' at KU Leuven offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to the decarbonization of energy-intensive industries in Europe. Industry accounts for a significant portion of EU emissions, with process heating representing the majority of industrial energy use. The ZEnITh (Zero Emissions Industrial Technologies) project, in which this PhD is embedded, aims to develop innovative solutions by combining High Temperature Heat Pumps (HTHP)...