Jobs & Appointments

The Helmholtz Association is providing long-term investment for the establishment of a new Research Group on Land Use Change at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology’s Campus Alpin (IMK-IFU) located in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (). This Group aims to advance knowledge of the causes and consequences of change in socio-ecological systems from local to global scales by: a) understanding the fundamental principles that underpin the interactions between people and their environment and encoding these […]

The Center for Resilient Communities at the University of Idaho (Moscow, ID) invites applications for a post-doctoral scientist for interdisciplinary research related to social-ecological systems modeling and agent-based modeling of food-energy-water systems. The successful candidate will work as part of an interdisciplinary team of social and environmental scientists, engineers, and stakeholders to develop innovative solutions to integrated food, energy, and water systems interactions. […]

The James Hutton Institute welcomes applications to one of three new TB Macaulay fellowships spanning our computational, social and environmental science areas. The fellowship is based at our Aberdeen (UK) site and comes with 3 years funding plus generous start-up costs. This is an exciting three-year Research Fellowship to expand our activities in sustainability science, with particular focus on investigating ways to implement the UN Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs) in Scotland and […]

Artificial Intelligence Economics Research Center (AI-ECON), Department of Economics, National Chengchi University (Taiwan) invites applications at the post-doctoral level to develop agent-based macroeconomic models (ABMs), geared towards computational policy experiments. The research will be conducted under the direction of Professor Shu-Heng Chen. The candidate is expected to work with a researchers at the lab to design, develop, simulate and analyze agent-based, behavioural […]

Postdoctoral fellowship in computational social sciences Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden http://lnu.se/about-lnu/jobs-and-vacancies?l=en We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher who will contribute to the establishment of a computational social science research group with a main (but not exclusive) focus on environmental issues. We are planning to both exploit the richness of existing data resulting from online interactions and to design and implement web-experiments. We seek candidates […]

We are seeking two post-doctoral researchers for a three year ESRC funded project that aims to make it easier and more productive for social researchers to use the fixed and mobile digital sensors (including energy and ambient fixed sensors, and sensors in mobile phones) that are becoming available from the Internet of Things and ubiquitous computing. The project, ‘HomeSense: digital sensors for social research’ has recently been funded under the National Centre for Research Methods’ call […]

The George Mason University, College of Science, Department of Computational and Data Sciences seeks applications for a senior scholar with significant administrative experience to serve as the Chair of the Department of Computational and Data Sciences. Responsibilities: The individual serving in this position will be a leading scientist in a natural, computational, social science, or related discipline. The candidate should complement and enhance the expertise present in the program areas […]

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. […]

Job Posting on University of Delaware web site: https://wahrprd.nss.udel.edu:4450/psp/RESUME/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_CE.GBL?Page=HRS_CE_JOB_DTL&Action=A&JobOpeningId=102460&SiteId=900&PostingSeq=1 Job Title: Associate Professor - Computational Social Science Job ID: 102460 Location: Newark, Delaware The University of Delaware’s College of Arts and Sciences has identified computational social science as a strategic initiative. The emergence of large datasets and powerful computing […]

The College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, invites applications from social scientists within the interdisciplinary field of computational social science. This tenure track position will be in one of the following social science departments: Anthropology, Communication, Economics, Journalism, Political Science, Resource Economics, Regional Planning, or Sociology. The successful candidate will also participate in an outstanding […]