Jobs & Appointments

School of Psychology, University of Sussex 3.5 year EPSRC PhD studentship available for September 2013 Project title: Physical crowds and psychological crowds: Applying self-categorization theory to computer simulation of intergroup events Project supervisors: Dr John Drury and Dr Andy Philippides This project will examine the behaviour of different psychological crowds within the same physical crowd. It will apply concepts from social psychology to crowd modelling, using a combination of […]

Details on the labexMER web site The Lab-STICC (CNRS UMR 6285) is seeking an enthusiastic PhD candidate with a strong scientific knowledge background. The Computer Science thesis aims at modeling/simulating the biological pump in the mesopelagic domain : it intricates models from marine biology, biophysics and geophysics. The biological pump is the set of processes that generate and transport the […]

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 * help the agent-based modeling community * 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 all your work on GitHub (https://github.com/NetLogo) details at […]

AVAILABLE POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE POSITION NETWORK MODELING OF HOUSEHOLD SOLAR ENERGY ADOPTION UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA Dr. Adam Henry, Assistant Professor in the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona, will be hiring a postdoctoral research associate to work on a project funded by the Department of Energy to apply computational, agent-based network models to understand the adoption of residential solar energy in major U.S. solar markets. Applicants should […]

The Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, research group „Future Energy and Mobility Structures“, is currently looking for a Research fellow on a part-time basis for a doctoral position initially limited to 3 years in the research field „Agent-based modelling of measures increasing the energy efficiency of buildings“ - Reference number 051/13/1 - The position of a research fellow, which is envisaged as a part-time job (19,92 hours per week) and will be remunerated […]

Centre for Research in Social Simulation University of Surrey, Guildford, UK 2 Research Fellows for the Whole System Energy Modelling Consortium: (a) Agent-based modelling of household energy demand (b) Social practices of energy consumption (Ref: 9385) Posts available from July 2013 Salary: up to £37,382 per annum Two positions are available in the Centre for Research in Social Simulation to work with Professor Nigel Gilbert in the new four-year, £5.7 million WholeSEM (Whole Systems […]

AI-Econ Research Center (www.aiecon.org) is an interdisciplinary research and professional service unit at National Chengchi University, Taiwan. Our aim is to support research and provide policy and strategy analytical services based on agent-based simulation and human experiments to the society. We are looking for a highly enthusiastic and fully devoted expert in experiments to operate and expand the functions of our experimental economics laboratory (EEL, http://eel.nccu.edu.tw/ ). This […]

Postdoctoral Researcher in Land Use Change Modelling Vacancy Ref: : 012323 Closing Date : 02-May-2013 Contact Person : Professor Mark Rounsevell Contact Email : [email protected] We are seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Researcher in the field of Land Use Change Modelling for a period of 2 years. Based within the School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, you will join a team of researchers studying the effects of environmental change on land use at multiple temporal and […]

The Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig is offering several PhD positions on ecosystem services. One of the positions aims at an agent-based model on the relationship between residential mobility and urban ecosystem services (topic 4). Details regarding the positions and the application procedure can be found on the following website: http://www.ufz.de/escalate/