Postdoctoral position in Traceability Information System
Department / Research group: ISEL a logistics engineering institute of Le Havre (France) / Supply Chain Management
Duration: 12 months starting September 2008. Salary: 28000 €/year
We have an open Postdoctoral position in the ANR funded project GOST (Geolocalisation Optimisation Security of the Transport of containers). This is an exploratory research project which aims to develop a services platform for tracking and real-time monitoring across transport, especially dangerous goods. This platform must integrate multimodal transportation and take account risk management during transportation.
Different and related research subjects are considered in the project. One of the problems concerns the information system for tracking and tracing containers. The Postdoctoral research work will focus on information system for tracking and tracing containers via RFID tags and Geolocalisation. The researcher will also work in and cooperate with a multidisciplinary team (including industrial partners) covering the subjects of the project as traceability, transportation, modelling, RFID and Geolocalization.
We are looking for an excellent and highly motivated candidate with a good PhD (or equivalent) in Information Systems, Web Information System, Data Base, and Traceability and with a strong interest and preferably scientific background in Information Systems. She/he is expected to have good programming and information system skills (Web Services, XML, Data Base, SOA,…) and to have a positive attitude toward interdisciplinary research and teamwork. Knowledge of French is not a prerequisite for application.
English could be the working language of research.
Applicants should send a detailed resume, graduate transcripts and the names, addresses, telephone numbers and e-mails of three references to:
Jaouad Boukachour
boukachour@univ-lehavre.f