Jobs & Appointments

The NetLogo team at Northwestern University (near Chicago) is hiring a full-time developer. This might interest you if you want to: - work with researchers at a university - make things for kids, teachers, and scientists - write Scala and CoffeeScript - hack on compilers and interpreters - do functional programming - use the Play framework - write open source software - do your work on GitHub (https://github.com/NetLogo) The CCL is looking for two full-time developers to work on NetLogo. […]

IFPRI VACANCY POSTING Position # 14-108 (N) (INTERNATIONALLY RECRUITED POSITION) TITLE: SENIOR RESEARCH ASSISTANT LOCATION: WASHINGTON, DC DIVISION: ENVIRONMENT AND PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY REPORTS TO: ANDREW BELL, RESEARCH FELLOW, EPTD GRADE: 14B FLSA STATUS: EXEMPT POSTING DATE: FEBRUARY 6, 2014 CLOSING DATE: MARCH 6, 2014 OR UNTIL FILLED Job Summary: The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) seeks a qualified candidate to serve as Senior Research Assistant in its Environment […]

The Quantitative Fisheries Center and Aquatic Animal Health Laboratory at Michigan State University seek a Post-Doctoral Research Associate to participate in a study of vaccination as a method for protecting Lake Michigan fishes against the viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus. The hired Post-Doc will take a lead role in developing an agent-based model to evaluate the feasibility/costs in eliciting a herd immune response in a Great Lakes fish population via vaccination. Lake Michigan will […]

ETH Zurich establishes a multi-disciplinary research team to work on risk governance-related challenges for deep geothermal energy, CO2 storage and hydropower projects. The new interdisciplinary research team will initially comprise three postdoctoral and/or senior scientists. The successful candidates are expected to participate in a growing cross-disciplinary research program, involving several professorships at ETH, with strong ties to other national and international partner […]

Research Fellow (Postdoc) position is available for 4 years at the School of Computer Engineering (http://www.ntu.edu.sg/SCE), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, starting immediately. You will be conducting research and development in the area of agent-based modeling and simulation. Specifically, it is an industry funded project and you will be working closely together with the team in NTU and a world-wide reputable company. You will be researching, designing and developing […]

Full-time position for 4 years CSTM, University of Twente, the Netherlands Vacancy number 618179 Job description We are seeking a PhD student (4 year terms) to join in a EU-funded project on the development of advanced techno-economic modeling tools for a ‘low carbon’ economy. This is a fully funded PhD position to study nonlinearities and regime-shifts in economic systems when quantifying the impacts of climate change mitigation policies. This involves a development of an economic […]

The Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity (http://csid.asu.edu/) at Arizona State University invites applications for an exciting post-doctoral position in collective action and social networks. This postdoc will conduct research within a NSF funded project (http://csid.asu.edu/tipping-collective-action-social-networks-0). The research is computational and the ideal candidate has training in (agent-based) modeling, network analysis and data mining. Furthermore, the ideal […]

Course on Agent-based Modeling and Simulation The International Advanced Studies in Demography (IDEM) program is currently accepting applications for the upcoming IDEM winter semester 2013/14 at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock, Germany. The IDEM winter program includes an advanced course on Agent-based Modeling and Simulation, see http://tinyurl.com/idem-abm Other IDEM winter courses cover the Demography of Aging across the Tree of Life, Spatial […]

The Chair of Systems Design in ETH Zurich, and the Centre for Research on Direct Democracy in Universität Zürich offer a position for a PhD student working in the project “The Role of Emotional Interactions in the Polarization of Opinions in Participatory Media” funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), starting as soon as possible. This project brings together the fields of social science, computer science, and statistical physics to advance in the understanding of the […]

Kiel University seeks to appoint more women to professorships. The Graduate School “Human Development in Landscapes” at Kiel University (CAU) invites applications for the position of: Professorship (W2) in “Ancient Socio-Environmental Modelling” The appointment is initially for five years with tenure track. The Graduate School (www.uni-kiel.de/landscapes/) is funded in the framework of the German Excellence Initiative and will be transferred into the Johanna Mestorf Academy as a permanent […]