Professorship for a MTEI post-doc

Jean-Sébastien Tancrez joined Prof. Ralf Seifert's team in 2009 as a post-doctoral fellow, after having earned his doctoral degree from the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics at Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. He also holds a Master's degree in mathematical engineering.

During his Ph.D. studies, his main subject was the modelling of general queueing networks. He also applied stochastic modelling in the field of healthcare management, and was involved in a research project with the company AGC, to model and optimize its reverse logistics network. He spent six months in Ireland, as a visiting Ph.D. student in the School of Computer Science and Informatics at University College Dublin.

During his post-doc at EPFL, he focused his research on operations management, and supply chain management in particular.

Dr. Tancrez will be joining the Louvain School of Management in September 2011.