Jobs & Appointments

Systems Science is an interdisciplinary program that involves multiple academic units and reports to the Dean of Graduate Studies. The Program emphasizes systems research and practice, with an academic focus on complexity science, computational intelligence, computer modeling and simulation, data mining, system control and optimization, and systems theory. Research and practice are interdisciplinary, making use of systems ideas and methods to address complex scientific, technological, […]

Institution: ETH Zurich, Team of Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Dirk Helbing, Chair of Sociology, in particular of Modeling and Simulation Salary or grade: Postdoc or PhD Start date and contract length: March 1st 2009. Up to 4 years contract. Announcement at www.jobs.ethz.ch Description of position: The successful candidate will develop his/her research in collaboration with other members of the Chair of Sociology, in particular Modeling and Simulation (SOMS) at ETH Zurich. SOMS is a young, […]

Graduate Research Assistantship in Agent-based Land Market Modeling available with Dr. Dawn Parker at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada A graduate assistantship (minimum of three years of funding) is available for a highly qualified student interesting in developing agent-based models of ex-urban residential land markets. The research assistant will be part of SLUCE II project (Spatial Land Use Change and Ecological Effects), funded through the US National Science Foundation’s […]

National Heart Forum Research Associate (Computational Modelling) The National Heart Forum has recently secured a contract to further develop the micro-simulation model originally developed for the Foresight Obesity Programme. We are now looking for a person/persons to support the existing team of three, currently comprising a Professor of Epidemiology, mathematician/computer expert and project manager/public health policy researcher. We anticipate that the ideal person should be a post- […]