Jobs & Appointments

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.

Reference : UMR5667-STEMAU-015
Workplace : LYON 07
Date of publication : Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Scientific Responsible name : Yoan COUDERT
Type of Contract : PhD Student contract / Thesis offer
Contract Period : 36 months
Start date of the thesis : 1 October 2021
Proportion of work : Full time
Remuneration : 2 135,00 € gross monthly

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

Incorporating decision-making in environmental emergencies into behavioural computational models for crisis planning
https://www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentship/incorporating-decision-making/

Abstract.
Environmental disasters are increasing in frequency and severity and require improved mitigation planning. Communication approaches used by first responders and governments towards affected communities impact citizen response by increasing or decreasing citizen trust and well-being. Moreover, co[…]

I am looking to hire two postdocs in Complexity Economics and/or Computational Social Science at The Alan Turing Institute. They will work on a large and exciting project on shocks and resilience, and will be closely collaborating with experts from other fields such as epidemiology, biology, data science, and spatial modelling.

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 Crop Science Group within the Institute of Crop Science and Research Conservation (INRES) at the University of Bonn is offering a Post-Doc position (E13 TV-L / 100%) for a period of up to 3 years. The Crop Science group at University of Bonn has a strong focus on developing dynamic, process based models for crop and agroecosystem management. The models are used among others to predict impacts of climate or management changes on crop production as well as eco-system services provision.

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[…]