Jobs & Appointments

The Centre for Health Economics (CHE) at the University of York is seeking to appoint a Research Fellow (Grade 6) to conduct microsimulation and economic evaluation of the long-term health and wellbeing impacts of childhood policies, on a full-time open contract (part-time applications will also be considered with a minimum of 0.8 FTE).

This is an ideal opportunity for an ambitious postgraduate interested in using economics and data science to help improve human health and wellbeing and r[…]

An opportunity is available for a fully funded PhD position to work on a project that aims to analyze how global and local connections and networks impact the spread of an infectious disease. The project will combine a number of methodologies such as network analysis, agent-based modelling, machine learning, and mathematical modelling.

The position is opened by the Complex Human Behaviour Lab (CHuB), an interdisciplinary research unit carrying out fundamental and applied research informed by the statistical analysis of large behavioural datasets and aimed at modelling individual behaviour and collective social phenomena using the methods of complexity science, computational social science, and network theory. The topics covered within the unit range from individual decisions, human mobility and transportation to online co[…]

The research project “A network science approach to social cohesion in European societies” (PATCHWORK), funded by the European Research Council (ERC Advanced Grant awarded to Dr. Miranda Lubbers), announces the recruitment of a pre-doctoral researcher in agent-based modeling and simulation of societal networks and their effects at the newly founded Laboratory for Computational Analysis of Egonetworks, Social Cohesion and Exclusion (COALESCE Lab) at the Department of Social and Cultural Anth[…]

The research project “A network science approach to social cohesion in European societies” (PATCHWORK), funded by the European Research Council (ERC Advanced Grant awarded to Dr. Miranda Lubbers), is hiring a post-doctoral researcher for a period of four years at the newly founded Laboratory for Computational Analysis of Egonetworks, Social Cohesion and Exclusion (COALESCE Lab) at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

The successful a[…]

The Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Irvine invites applications for a postdoctoral scholar position beginning fall 2021 or January 2022.

We are seeking a motivated postdoctoral scholar interested in a new NSF Smart & Connected Communities research project that aims to dramatically improve how metropolitan areas plan for and thus leverage intelligent transportation technologies to solve pressing societal problems. The project team will accomplish this goal through targeted improve[…]

We are seeking an outstanding Research Associate to undertake research for the EEIST project. The role will contribute directly to the new climate and energy-related economic and social modelling being conducted as part of EEIST. The EEIST project is developing and applying innovative policy assessment and complexity economics modelling approaches in the UK, China, India, Brazil and the EU.

School of Geography and the Environment, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QY

Grade 7: £33,309 - £40,9[…]

SLU is recruiting a professor who shares our aspirations to be world leading within the area of weed ecology and management. We are looking for a person with an ecological approach who will work towards solving the applied problems that weedy plants pose in agricultural ecosystems. For this, we welcome applicants with an interest in engaging in trans- and inter-disciplinary research. New EU regulations to ban certain herbicides make sustainable weed management a matter of urgency for Nordic[…]

Are you passionate about agent-based modeling and sustainability? Then this Assistant Professor position could be for you! Read more about the research group here http://www.sc3.center/ and about the job requirements here https://www.academictransfer.com/en/293240/assistant-professor-in-sustainability-and-complex-adaptive-systems/ . Deadline: October 16th 2020

At the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, we are looking to develop the next generation of highly skilled researchers. Our Unit has a particular focus on devel[…]