Jobs & Appointments

University of Central Florida – College of Engineering and Computer Science Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational Simulation of Social Behavior The College of Engineering and Computer Science has an immediate opening for a 2-year full-time, postdoctoral fellow position in in the laboratory of Dr. Ivan Garibay. The University of Central Florida provides an outstanding research environment and we are seeking highly motivated and independent postdoctoral fellows, with training and expertise in […]

The National Laboratory of Public Policy (LNPP) is hiring two research assistants for its simulation unit (USim). The simulation unit is dedicated to the development and active use of simulation models for the analysis, evaluation and improvement of public policies. The goal is to develop models that are as close as possible to the context of the study and allow us to analyse effects of public policies ex-ante. The unit specialises in agent-based modelling but is open to other techniques […]

Working environment: The post-doctorate will be hosted in the Laboratoire d’Ingénierie pour les Systèmes Complexes (LISC) at Irstea (http://www.irstea.fr/en/accuei l) Center of Clermont-Ferrand (France). Researchers of LISC are specialized in computer sciences and applied mathematics, with a solid experience of interdisciplinary projects. They develop individual based models of ecological and social dynamics. The post-doctorate is funded by the FuturICT 2.0 project (http://futurict2.eu/) […]

The Human-Environment Systems group at Boise State University is looking for a programmer to assist with optimizing code for an agent-based model of endangered species. The model is described in Carter, N., Levin, S., Barlow, A. and Grimm, V., 2015. Modeling tiger population and territory dynamics using an agent-based approach. Ecological Modelling, 312, pp.347-362. Primary tasks that the programmer would assist with include efforts to: • Develop algorithms to effectively upscale the model […]

PhD position on computational models of collective escape of bird flocks 1.0 fte (217006H) • « Back to the overview Organisation Founded in 1614, the University of Groningen enjoys an international reputation as a dynamic and innovative center of higher education offering high-quality teaching and research. Flexible study programmes and academic career opportunities in a wide variety of disciplines encourage the 30,000 students and researchers alike to develop their own individual talents. […]

The James Hutton Institute Location: Aberdeen Salary: Hutton band E Circa £37,500 to Hutton band F Circa £48,000 per annum Hours: Full Time Contract Type: Fixed-Term/Contract Placed on: 25th April 2017 Closes: 21st May 2017 The James Hutton Institute is an international research centre based in Scotland, focusing on the key global challenges, of climate change and food and environmental security. Collaborating with colleagues within the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable […]

A Post-Doctoral fellowship position is available at the Technological Institute of Aeronautics (ITA) in Brazil. The researcher will be involved in the project “Employing computational intelligence techniques and big data analytics in a multi-agent system experiment of finance”, a collaboration between ITA and the University of Essex, UK. This project and the PD fellowship are funded by FAPESP (São Paulo Research Foundation, fapesp.br/en/postdoc). This research intends to employ different […]

Two postdoctoral positions are available at IFISC in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Candidates are expected to work within the framework of the project Emergent Social, Technical and Ecological Complex Systems, ESoTECoS, https://ifisc.uib-csic.es/en/research/projects/esotecos/, which addresses the following topics: 1. Social changes and innovation processes with social interaction at multiple levels: a) Competition between globalization and social polarization, in particular language […]

job opening at the University of Oxford (INET): Job Opening for a Postdoctoral Research Assistant for an agent-based modelling project at the Institute of New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford. The job is for 15 months (fixed term) and is available from 1st June 2017 or as soon as possible thereafter. The application deadline is 12.00 noon on Wednesday 12th April 2017. For detailed information, please see https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/24989

Center for Mind and Culture, Boston The Center for Mind and Culture (CMAC) is a non-profit think tank conducting non-partisan research into aspects of the mind-culture nexus (see www.mindandculture.org). CMAC is seeking a post-doctoral research fellow expert in modeling and simulation and interested in applying those techniques to religious cognition and behavior, immigration and integration, and related areas. Java and NetLogo are the principle coding languages in use on this project. […]