[agents] Tenure track position in Information Systems at Rotterdam School of Management

Wolf Ketter wketter at rsm.nl
Fri Oct 2 12:41:43 EDT 2015


Dear Colleagues,


The Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), Erasmus University, invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in Information Systems at the rank of Assistant Professor. The position is in the Department of Technology & Operations Management (section BIM - Business Information Management).


The Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, located in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, is a top-ranked international business school renowned for its ground-breaking research in sustainable business practice and for the development of future global business leaders. Offering an array of bachelors, masters, doctoral, MBA and executive education programs, RSM is consistently ranked amongst the top 10 business schools in Europe; it has a research ranking of 3rd in Europe, with its full-time and executive MBA programs ranked in the top 30 world-wide, and its international CEMS M.Sc. Program ranked 2nd in Europe. Members of the BIM group are responsible for delivering the content of the RSM MSc Program in Business Information Management (ranked Best Master Program in business intelligence, knowledge & security management in 2013-2014).


We are inviting candidates with an appreciation for real-world problems and how to deal with them by state-of-the art academic approaches. The ideal candidate should have a PhD in Information Systems or related fields (or be in the final year of their dissertation research). He/she is expected to teach to undergraduate (BSc in Business Administration), master (MSc in Business Information Management) as well as to MBA and PhD students. We are interested in candidates in all areas of research, although preference will be given to candidates whose research complements on-going work in the department in the areas of Energy Information Systems, Information Strategy, Decision-Making Support Systems, and especially Big Data and Business Analytics and Machine Learning. Members of this group are very active in research communities around the world, and have experience with several areas of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management. For more information about the department, please see http://www.rsm.nl/research/departments/technology-and-operations-management/business-information-management/


The Assistant Professor will initiate research through the Research School ERIM in the joint Rotterdam School of Management and Erasmus School of Economics research program called Logistics & Information Systems (LIS).


Preference will be given to applications submitted before October 31st, 2015, although applications will be accepted until the positions are filled. Applicants should send a complete package (consisting of a motivation letter, current vita, job market paper, concise research statement, teaching evaluations or statement, and recommendation letters) to us via applications-dept1 at rsm.nl<mailto:applications-dept1 at rsm.nl>. Promising candidates will be invited to RSM for a campus visit, job talk, and interviews with faculty. We are planning to interview at CIST, INFORMS, and ICIS.



About Rotterdam, the Netherlands.  Rotterdam is the second-largest city in the Netherlands and has Europe’s biggest port. It is vibrantly international, accommodating some 600,000 people (1.2 million in the greater metropolitan area) from 160 different countries. Its landscape is modern, with high rising towers and creative architecture. In addition to being an important business and logistics hub, the city also has an extensive cultural, restaurant, and entertainment scene. Rotterdam is the gateway to Europe, as Paris, London, Brussels, Berlin, and many other great destinations can all be reached in a few hours. The capital city of Amsterdam is less than an hour away by train or car. The New York Times ranked the city of Rotterdam on number 10 of the top 52 places to go in 2014!


Best wishes,


Wolf

Prof. Dr. Wolf Ketter

Professor of Next Generation Information Systems
Director, Erasmus Centre for Future Energy Business (www.rsm.nl/energy<http://www.rsm.nl/energy>)
Director, Learning Agents Research Group at Erasmus (LARGE – www.large.rsm.nl<http://www.large.rsm.nl/>)
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
Twitter: @wolfketter


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