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

Applications will be evaluated by GERAD's scientific committee, using the following criteria:

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

The evaluation committee will not comment on the evaluation conducted.

*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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Recipients

• Sara Ghaboulian Zare, Université de Montréal, supervised by Normand Mousseau, Martin Trépanier and Olivier Bahn ($12,500)
• Léo Guillon, Polytechnique Montréal, supervised by Jonathan Jalbert ($12,500)
• Patrick Lachapelle, École de technologie supérieure, supervised by Annie Levasseur ($12,500)
• Maïka Lamoureux, HEC Montréal, supervised by Olivier Bahn and Annie Levasseur ($12,500)

Recipients

• 3 scholarships of $3,500 ($10,500) were awarded in 2024-2025
• 3 scholarships of $3,500 ($10,500) were awarded in 2023-2024
• 4 scholarships of $3,500 ($14,500) were awarded in 2022-2023
• 1 scholarship of $3,500 was awarded in 2020-2021
• 1 scholarship of $3,500 was awarded in 2019-2020
• 1 scholarship of $3,500 was awarded in 2018-2019

Recipients

• 2023: Alexis Montoison, "Méthodes de Krylov pour l'algèbre linéaire et implémentation polymorphe", supervised by Dominique Orban (Polytechnique Montréal) ($3,000)
• 2022: Allyson Fernandes da Costa Silva, "Optimization of storage and picking systems in warehouse", supervised by Leandro C. Coelho and co-supervised by Maryam Darvish (Université Laval) ($3,000)
• 2021: Kwassi Holali Degue, "Secure and privacy-preserving cyber-physical systems", supervised by Jérôme Le Ny (Polytechnique Montréal) ($1,500)
• 2020: Chun Cheng, "Robust Optimization for Supply Chain Applications: Facility Location and Drone Delivery Problems", supervised by Yossiri Adulyasak (HEC Montréal) and Louis-Martin Rousseau (Polytechnique Montréal) ($1,500)
• 2019: Samuel Pelletier, "Goods Distribution with Electric Vehicles", supervised by Gilbert Laporte and Ola Jabali (HEC Montréal) ($1,500)
• 2018: Ibrahim Chamseddine, "Utilizing computational design optimization in cancer nanotherapy and biology system principles in air transportation: A successful demonstration of interdisciplinary research", supervised by Michael Kokkolaras (Université McGill) ($1,500)
• 2017: Charles Gauvin, "Méthodes d'optimisation robuste pour le problème de gestion de réservoirs", supervised by Michel Gendreau (Polytechnique Montréal) and Erick Delage (HEC Montréal)

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