Jobs & Appointments

Job opening: 3 year PhD position at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) in the field of empirical based Multi-Agent Simulation of Opinion Dynamics. The doctoral project “Tipping points in public opinion. A Multi-Agent System simulating shifts from indifferent and ambivalent to polarized opinions” is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Employment will be by the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag: http://www.eawag.ch/index_EN); the […]

Marine Resource Economist Assistant Professor (tenure track) Marine Science and Economics University of Maine Orono The University of Maine invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Marine Science and Economics. The position will be split evenly between the School of Economics and the School of Marine Sciences. The successful applicant will be expected to develop and maintain a rigorous interdisciplinary research program, to obtain external research support, to engage […]

Modeling and Simulation of Health Behavior Faculty Position - Assistant or Associate Professor (TS) (#0130144). The Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences (BCHS) at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health (http://www.publichealth.pitt.edu/) is announcing a full-time faculty position in modeling and simulation of health behavior. We seek an assistant or associate professor with skills in computational, simulation, and modeling approaches to the dynamics […]

Contract available for 2 years from February 2013 Salary: up to £35,938 per annum TELL ME (Transparent communication in Epidemics: Learning Lessons from experience, delivering effective Messages, providing Evidence) is a 36 month project funded by the European Commission within Framework 7, which aims to provide evidence and to develop models for improved risk communication during infectious disease crises. TELL ME combines public health, social sciences, behavioral sciences, political […]

We are happy to announce a fully funded PhD position on developing an economic agent-based model. The projects aims to study non-marginal changes and non-linear behavior in energy markets under different scenarios of climate change mitigation policies (please see details in the attachment). Candidates with a background in economics, mathematics or computer science and modeling are welcome to apply.

UCL Department / Division Institute of Archaeology Grade 7 Hours Full Time Salary (inclusive of London allowance) £33,826 per annum Duties and Responsibilities Since 2010 Professor Stephen Shennan, Director of the Institute of Archaeology, has been running a 4-year project entitled ‘Cultural Evolution of Neolithic Europe’, funded by the European Research Council, which has been applying cultural evolutionary approaches to the study of prehistory. The aim of the project is to address […]

Associate or Full Professor Computation Social Science - Anthropology/Sociology University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park.The College of Behavioral and Social Sciences is seeking (2) computational social scientists to expand Maryland’s strengths in the computational aspects of global environmental change through interdisciplinary joint appointments.Rank will start at associate professor and tenure will be in the department closest to the […]

Folks, My company is looking to hire an experienced agent based modeler (particularly Netlogo) for salmon modeling projects in California. Please check out the position annoucement at: http://www.fishsciences.net/about_us/jobs.php#auburnbiometrician Thanks. Please feel free to share with students or others who might be interested. -Brad

Task: Development of a dynamic energy flow model considering the resource system, dynamics in the buildings and infrastructure sector, and cooperation in linking the model with an agent based model on decision-making processes. Working place: Chair for Human-Environment Relations (HER), Dep. of Geography, University of Munich Employment duration: Nov 2012 – March 2014 Project Homepage: http://www.uni-graz.at/terim PostDoc in the Project TERIM – Transition Dynamics in Energy Regions: An […]

The SMAC Team of the IRIT lab (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse) invites applications for a one-year postdoctoral fellowship in the EmoTES project funded by the ANR. The aim of the EmoTES project is to study a specific class of emotions, so-called “strategic emotions”, namely those emotions such as guilt, remorse… which arise in the context of strategic interaction (that is, when an agent’s utility of a given choice also depends on other agents’ behaviors). The main goal […]