🔎 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 2026We are opening a PhD position on the topic:👉 CONTOURA – CONtext-aware Territorial decisiOn Analysis with Utility, Resilience and AcceptabilityThis 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 ambitionThe 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 EconomyDECIDE team, Lab-STICC – IMT Atlantique - Decision support, multi-criteria analysis, optimization🎯 Profile soughtWe 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-organisation…💬 Please do not hesitate to share this opportunity within your network or tag potential candidates!