Jobs & Appointments

Associate professorship in Computational Methods and Complex Systems at the Ca Foscari University of Venice: The successful candidate will have a strong record in research and teaching with proven expertise / exposure in one or more of the following areas: • computational economics/finance • risk mitigation/management • networks and graph theory applied to the analysis of social and economic systems. Candidates with strong quantitative background in mathematics, engineering, computer […]

The Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University is seeking a postdoctoral fellow to take a leadership role in the modeling interacting networks of water, power and roads to evaluate the resilience of coupled infrastructure systems. The position is part of an innovative NSF-funded project on Resilience Simulation for Water, Power & Road Networks. The candidate will be encouraged to develop his/her own research program within the broad aims of the […]

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 […]

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 Research Associate will work with Prof Shane Johnson and Dr David Hudson on a project entitled “Migration Networks, Decisions and Immigration Policy”. The project will take a complex systems approach to the study of immigration policy with the aim of understanding migrants’ use of (off-line) social networks to learn about and adapt to changing legal environments. The project will involve the analysis of primary data collected through field experiments in Jamaica, and the use of agent- […]

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 […]

As a part of EPSRC funded Horizon Hub, we have a 9 months fixed term position for a post-doctoral researcher in social network analysis and modelling. The position is based in the Centre for the mathematics of human behaviour (CMoHB, https://www.reading.ac.uk/cmohb/ ), Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Reading and will be focused on analysis and modelling of dynamics and mood on social networks, based on two small human studies and a large online social network […]

Postdoc position in spatial structure (Req #140062) The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University invites applications for a post-doctoral position to work with Professors Corina Tarnita and Simon Levin on projects with special focus on spatial structure and its effects. The three main directions of research include but are not restricted to: (i) the effects of spatial patterning (e.g., as induced by self organization of social insect nests) on ecosystems and […]

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). ## […]

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 […]