Jobs & Appointments

Two fully funded, PhD studentships are available at the School of Geography, University of Leeds, UK. They’re part of a new ERC Starting Grant project called Data Assimilation for Agent-Based Mo[…]

The DFG-funded Research Training Group RTG 2118 ‘Integrating Biodiversity Research with Movement Ecology in Dynamic Agricultural Landscapes [BioMove]’ (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Florian Jeltsch) at the University of Potsdam (UP), the Freie Universität Berlin (FU), the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW, Berlin), and the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF, Müncheberg) offers several positions:

You will work on a new project, funded by the European Research Council, called Data Assimilation for Agent-Based Models: Applications to Civil Emergencies (DUST). The utilmate aim of the project[…]

The University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), offers a fully-funded 4 year PhD position on ABM for urban risk-prone areas: https://www.utwente.nl/en/organization/careers/vacancy/!/phd-candidate-the-effects-of-human-decision-making-on-settling-in-risk-prone-urban-areas/1117217

The Department of Medicine and the Chicago Center for HIV Elimination announces a post-doctoral position at the University of Chicago, focusing on quantitative data sciences and HIV/STI prevention research. The position is under the direct supervision of John Schneider MD, MPH, Aditya Khanna PhD, and in collaboration with other Center faculty (http://hivelimination.uchicago.edu/people/faculty) to support a skilled computational social/health scientist interested in developing a career in […]

I am now accepting applications for a funded 4-year Ph.D. degree program in environmental economics at the University of New Hampshire (UNH). The selected student will conduct research on the economics of managing invasive plants in forests with heterogeneous landownership. The position is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute for Food and Agriculture. Click here for more details on the project. The selected student will complete their Ph.D. in Economics at the […]

The Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science in cooperation with the Datalab at George Mason University (GMU) and the Department of Computer Science at Tulane University have a total of three postdoctoral fellow positions available. These positions will be part of the “Urban Simulation” project team conducting research as part of the DARPA’s “Ground Truth” program, a network of DARPA-funded teams across the USA. The team is directed by Andreas Zuefle, Dieter Pfoser, and Andrew […]

The Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science in cooperation with the Datalab at George Mason University (GMU) and the Department of Computer Science at Tulane University have a total of three postdoctoral fellow positions available. These positions will be part of the “Urban Simulation” project team conducting research as part of the DARPA’s “Ground Truth” program, a network of DARPA-funded teams across the USA. The team is directed by Andreas Zuefle, Dieter Pfoser, and Andrew […]

See http://www.duncanrobertson.com/2017/11/27/phd-studentship-modelling-dynamic-responses-dynamic-threats-loughborough-university/ I am co-supervising the following PhD project – the application link and further details can be found here: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/research-degrees/funded/modelling-dynamic-responses/ . The closing date is 14 December 2017. Please get in touch if you would like to discuss this opportunity. One of the most challenging issues for policy makers […]

We are offering a 100% PhD researcher position on housings environmental footprint at the Laboratory for Human-Environment Relations in Urban Systems (HERUS), ENAC, at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland. The research focus of HERUS is on transitions of urban systems towards sustainability. HERUS is an interdisciplinary team, consisting of social scientists and natural scientists. We combine social science methods with material and energy flow models, […]