Jobs & Appointments

Dear all, The Potsdam University of Applied Sciences, Germany, Institute for Urban Futures is seeking a predoctoral researcher in a two-year project in the field of „computational social psychology“, starting in October 2015. The Institute for Urban Futures is a recently founded interdisciplinary research institute studying strategies of sustainable urban transformations by combining research approaches from social and computational sciences, urban planning, and information visualization. […]

We are looking for PhD candidates on Modelling Values Attributed to Smart Energy System Platforms. More information: http://www.tudelft.nl/index.php?type=a&lang=nl&id=11974&fid=557880. The position is open until July 30th. The Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management contributes to sustainable solutions for technical challenges in society by combining the insights from engineering with the humanities and the social sciences. This research project is part of the NWO programme on […]

Please check the project(s) and the job announcement here: http://www.biomove.org/. Many of the project include modelling, and much of the modelling will be agent-based. Volker Grimm, Leipzig

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The Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University is seeking a postdoctoral fellow to take a leadership role in the modeling interacting networks of water, power and roads to evaluate the resilience of coupled infrastructure systems. The position is part of an innovative NSF-funded project on Resilience Simulation for Water, Power & Road Networks. The candidate will be encouraged to develop his/her own research program within the broad aims of the […]

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A three-year PhD scholarship on Agent-based Computational Economics starting November 1st 2015 is open at the Department of Mechanical, Energy, Management and Transportation Engineering of the University of Genova, Italy. Research will be focused on agent-based macroeconomics, financial stability and sustainability issues within the framework of the EU Project Symphony*, which aims to develop an innovative agent-based platform and ICT tools for designing and testing policies and regulatory […]

We are seeking a Postdoctoral Research Assistant (PDRA) for a new interdisciplinary project to build an agent-based model (ABM) to represent the extraction of fish by fishing vessels in open ocean fisheries and the associated effects on ocean ecological systems. The goal of this effort will be to identify pragmatic fisheries management strategies tailored both to the complexity of the ocean ecosystem, and the limitations of the relevant social, economic and regulatory systems. The PDRA […]