Jobs & Appointments

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and the New Jersey Agricultural Research Station, through the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, invites applications for a 18 month-2-year post-doctoral appointment as part of the Center for Resilient Landscapes collaboration with the USDA Forest Service (USDA-FS), beginning as soon as February 2015. The appointee will work on developing an applied socio-ecological simulation model of governance and ecological processes to […]

CLIMATE CHANGE AND REGIME SHIFTS IN FLOOD-PRONE URBAN AREAS: AN AGENT-BASED APPROACH Background: Coupled socio-ecological systems (SES) are known to experience regime shifts. By this we mean fast and usually irreversible changes in systems, like the ones that we observe when ecosystems collapse due to overexploitation, or when economy cannot recover after natural disasters (floods, droughts, etc.), or when societies undergo dramatic changes as in resource-driven conflicts. The topic is of […]

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 […]

The National Research Center for Integrated Natural Disasters Management (CIGIDEN) started its operation in 2013 and is located at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile. The Center is a cross-disciplinary research initiative aimed to mitigate the tremendous and complex impact of natural disasters in the society, considering the physical infrastructure, the human stock, and the economic development. The Center takes advantage of Chile as one of the most active […]

CIGIDEN is a cross-disciplinary research initiative aimed to mitigate the tremendous and complex impact of natural disasters in the society, considering the physical infrastructure, the human stock, and the economic development. The Center takes advantage of Chile as one of the most active natural seismic and geo-hazard laboratories in the world. Faculty members working at CIGIDEN include people from different areas of Civil Engineering, Psychology, Sociology, Urban Studies and Geography […]

The Center for Complexity in Business at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business seeks applications for a postdoctoral fellowship for the 2014-2015 school year. The mission of the Center for Complexity in Business is to become the premier international academic research center for the application of complex systems method to business and management science. This postdoctoral fellowship position will aid in helping the Center achieve this mission through research in […]

Required profile: MSc in Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, Electronics, Economics or Sociology. Description: The candidate will work in a new research line by developing a decision support tool based on agent-based economics and simulation scenarios. Required skills: * Agent-based modelling and simulations. * Knowledge and expertise in databases, programming (C++, Java preferably). * Knowledge on statistics, model validation and econometrics. **The following skills are […]

Research Fellow - Participatory Agent-Based Modelling Centre for Research in Social Simulation, University of Surrey Salary: up to GBP 29,541 per annum The Evolution and Resilience of Industrial Ecosystems programme (ERIE) is a large project funded by EPSRC under its ‘Complexity Science for the Real World’ theme that is addressing a series of fundamental questions about the application of complexity science to social and economic systems. The research aims to embed complexity science […]

The Chair of Systems Design in ETH Zurich, and the Centre for Research on Direct Democracy in Universität Zürich offer a position for a PhD student working in the project “The Role of Emotional Interactions in the Polarization of Opinions in Participatory Media” funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), starting as soon as possible. This project brings together the fields of social science, computer science, and statistical physics to advance in the understanding of the […]

The Center for the Study of Complex Systems (CSCS) at the University of Michigan invites applications for a tenure-track position of Assistant Professor of Complex Systems. The appointment will begin September 1, 2014. This is a university year appointment. Information about the Center can be found here: www.cscs.umich.edu. Required Qualifications Candidates must have a demonstrated interest in complex systems, broadly construed, with a doctoral degree in a related field such as computer […]