PhD Position – Decision Support, Territorial Resilience & Multi-Criteria Analysis (CONTOURA)

🔎 PhD Position – Decision Support, Territorial Resilience & Multi-Criteria Analysis (CONTOURA)
📍IMT Mines Albi & IMT Atlantic
🌍 International mobility (Europe)
📅 PhD starting date: October 2026
⏳ Application deadline: 5 February 2026

We are opening a PhD position on the topic:
👉 CONTOURA – CONtext-aware Territorial decisiOn Analysis with Utility, Resilience and Acceptability
This PhD project addresses complex territorial decision-making involving multiple stakeholders, heterogeneous preferences, uncertainty, and conflicting criteria. The objective is to design transparent, multi-criteria and multi-actor decision-support methodologies that foster resilient, fair, and socially acceptable decisions in territorial ecosystems.

🧠 Scientific ambition
The PhD will focus on:
- Utility-based modeling of subjective performance perception
- Resilience analysis of decisions under multiple future scenarios
- Behavioral decision-making (risk perception, attitudes toward uncertainty)
- Modeling collective decision processes, negotiation, fairness, and acceptability
- Avoiding “black-box” decision tools through explainable and transparent methods

🧩 Research environment
- TRACE team, Centre Génie Industriel – IMT Mines Albi 
Territorial Resilience, Agility & Circular Economy
DECIDE team, Lab-STICC – IMT Atlantique 
- Decision support, multi-criteria analysis, optimization

🎯 Profile sought
We are looking for a motivated candidate with interest in:
- Decision support systems & multi-criteria analysis
- Systems engineering, operations research, or applied mathematics
- Territorial systems, sustainability, resilience, or governance
- Interdisciplinary research at the interface of engineering & social sciences

📌 Keywords: Multi-criteria decision-making, Utility, Preferences, Multi-actor systems, Situational awareness

📩 Call for applications
📧 For further information or to express your interest, feel free to contact us by email. 

🔗 Full PhD description and application details are available here:
👉 https://phd.imt.fr/en/formation/sustainable-transformation-organisations/1766392388-15-contoura-context-aware-territorial

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