Jobs & Appointments

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 […]

PhD-candidate MODELLING COMBINATIONS OF STRATEGIES FOR HIV PREVENTION at the National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands Job number: AT I&V-EPI-273/OIO-04 The project In the Netherlands, the majority of new HIV diagnoses occurs among men who have sex with men (MSM). Despite the availability of successful treatment for HIV infection and the employment of numerous interventions, the risk of HIV transmission remains high among MSM. Recent efforts […]

At the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ in Leipzig, Germany (Department of Ecological Modelling) the Junior Research Group “”POLISES - Global food security policies and their social-ecological side effects in regions prone to global change” () funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research is established. In this group the following vacancy is offered at the nearest possible date: ## PhD Position (m/f) ## Subject: Social-ecological impacts of financial risk- […]

The Cooperative Multi-Agent System (SMAC) group of the IRIT Lab in Toulouse, France is offering 2 PhD positions: both positions are related to the ANR Project GEN* (http://www.genstar.fr) which aims at providing tools and methods for the generation on synthetic populations for agent-based social simulations. The PhDs will conduct their research at the University Toulouse 1 Capitole (http://www.ut-capitole.fr) in the IRIT laboratory (http://www.irit.fr). Position 1: Models for the […]

Protecting Knowledge Diversity and Promoting Resilience: Modelling Mexican Marginal Farmers’ Climate Adaptation Application Deadline: 17 January 2014 Supervised by Dr. Garry Polhill, and Dr B Slee at the James Hutton Institute and co-supervised with Prof. Bruce Edmonds (http://bruce.edmonds.name/) at the Centre for Policy Modelling (http://cfpm.org/), Manchester Metropolitan University (http://mmu.ac.uk/), and Dr. Matt Hare (http://www.seeconsult.org/en/index.php?page=matt-hare). ## […]

Full-time position for 4 years CSTM, University of Twente, the Netherlands Vacancy number 618179 Job description We are seeking a PhD student (4 year terms) to join in a EU-funded project on the development of advanced techno-economic modeling tools for a ‘low carbon’ economy. This is a fully funded PhD position to study nonlinearities and regime-shifts in economic systems when quantifying the impacts of climate change mitigation policies. This involves a development of an economic […]

Details on the labexMER web site The Lab-STICC (CNRS UMR 6285) is seeking an enthusiastic PhD candidate with a strong scientific knowledge background. The Computer Science thesis aims at modeling/simulating the biological pump in the mesopelagic domain : it intricates models from marine biology, biophysics and geophysics. The biological pump is the set of processes that generate and transport the […]

The Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, research group „Future Energy and Mobility Structures“, is currently looking for a Research fellow on a part-time basis for a doctoral position initially limited to 3 years in the research field „Agent-based modelling of measures increasing the energy efficiency of buildings“ - Reference number 051/13/1 - The position of a research fellow, which is envisaged as a part-time job (19,92 hours per week) and will be remunerated […]

The Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig is offering several PhD positions on ecosystem services. One of the positions aims at an agent-based model on the relationship between residential mobility and urban ecosystem services (topic 4). Details regarding the positions and the application procedure can be found on the following website: http://www.ufz.de/escalate/

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 […]