Jobs & Appointments

Research Associate at Centre for Sustainable Road Freight, Heriot-Watt University; responsible for leading the agent based modelling activity. The centre has focused on solutions that will deliver net zero carbon emissions and therefore reflect the emerging energy transitions.

Research Associate at Centre for Logistics & Sustainability, Heriot-Watt University; responsible for leading the agent based modelling activity. The Sustainable Cold-Chain project will bring together world leading interdisciplinary researchers to provide a whole systems approach overseeing technology, finances, food security and sociological aspects of how we can deliver demand and climate adaptation, resilience and decarbonisation of the cold-chain in the food industry simultaneously.

A job opportunity is available working with Gary Pollhil at the James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen, on agent-based modelling in various projects with stakeholders. It is listed as a permanent position, so a real opportunity to develop your career in social simulation.

The Department of Resilient Energy Systems in the Faculty of Production Engineering - Mechanical and Process Engineering at the University of Bremen is looking for a Research Associate (f/m/d) - subject to vacancy - for the position:
Research Associate (PhD Candidate) (f/m/d) with a focus on socio-technical transition research
(TV-L E 13)

Focus lies on:
- Socio-technical view on resilient transition paths
- Agent-based modeling
- Development of a stakeholder participation

The CoDArchLab and the Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology (African
Archaeology) at the University of Cologne invite applications for a three-year post-doctoral position in agent-based modelling in archaeology. More information you can find here https://jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibung/renderFile/292?propertyName=flyer

The Chair of Applied Social- and Health Psychology, headed by Prof. Dr. Urte Scholz, in the Department of Psychology at the University of Zurich (Switzerland) is seeking a postdoctoral researcher (80%), starting 1st of May, 2021 (negotiable), in the area of agent-based computer simulation of social-psychological processes. For more information on our research, see:
https://www.psychology.uzh.ch/en/areas/sob/angsoz/research.html.

The appointment is for two years and financed by the SNSF pro[…]

The Social Sciences Unit of the Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (ILVO), is looking for a PhD candidate (4-year) in “participatory agent-based modelling of food system changes towards a circular economy”.

The PhD candidate will be employed primarily on the European H2020 project RUSTICA (ID-101000527: 2021-2024). RUSTICA aims to foster the technical validation, demonstration and implementation of bio-based fertiliser and soil improvement production techniques[…]

Vacancy at the Rowett Institute of Nutrition & Health, where there is interest in using agent-based modelling to study the social complexity of dietary change.

Are you passionate about agent-based modeling and sustainability? Then this Assistant Professor position could be for you! Read more about the research group here http://www.sc3.center/ and about the job requirements here https://www.academictransfer.com/en/293240/assistant-professor-in-sustainability-and-complex-adaptive-systems/ . Deadline: October 16th 2020

We are looking for an enthusiastic Post-Doctoral researcher with a background in computer simulation, agent-based modelling, farmer behavioural modelling or microsimulation to join the BESTMAP team in the University of Leeds and contribute to the development of individual-farm agent-based modelling on farmer decision making, in dealing with challenges in land-use intensification, sustainable agriculture and climate change.