Jobs & Appointments

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 […]

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.

Department of Sociology Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences University of Surrey Models in Policy Making - Funded PhD Studentship The Department of Sociology invites applications for a funded studentship associated with the interdisciplinary research project ERIE (Evolution and Resilience of Industrial Ecosystems), a joint venture with the Departments of Mathematics and Computing and the Centre for Environmental Strategy (http://erie.surrey.ac.uk). Models are increasingly being used to […]

The Department of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University has an open post-doctoral fellowship position in the areas of computational modeling, complexity, and social systems. The fellowship is for one year, with the possibility of an additional year renewal, and has a limited teaching load. The Department is interdisciplinary, including the fields of economics, engineering, history, neuroscience, political science, and psychology. It has particular research strengths in […]

The Intelligent Modelling and Analysis Research Group in the School of Computer Science at Nottingham University invites applications for a PhD studentship in the wider area of “Strategic Modelling and Simulation of Human-Centred Complex Systems”. In our research we develop novel tools for decision makers (e.g. managers, policy makers) to help those making better informed decisions. The research is highly interdisciplinary, utilising methods and knowledge from fields like Computer Science, […]

Posts in Economics/Geography & Geography/Sociology University of Maryland, College Park. The College of Behavioral and Social Sciences is seeking (3) 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 applicant’s background. Applicants should have disciplinary backgrounds in the […]

The Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey, UK, invites applications for three PhD studentships associated with the interdisciplinary research project ERIE (Evolution and Resilience of Industrial Ecosystems), a joint venture with the Departments of Mathematics and Computing and the Centre for Environmental Strategy . The doctoral students will be part of the ERIE team that is using two case studies to explore a crucial aspect of the UK economy: the […]

Centre for Environmental Strategy, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Surrey Fully Funded PhD Studentship on the Role of Social and Physical Networks in Promoting Sustainable Industrial Systems The Centre for Environmental Strategy invites applications for a PhD studentship on the EPSRC-funded interdisciplinary research project ERIE (Evolution and Resilience of Industrial Ecosystems), a joint venture with the Departments of Mathematics, Computing and Sociology […]

The George Mason University, Krasnow Institute, Department of Computational Social Science (Fairfax, Va., USA) has a nine-month, tenure-track Assistant Professor opening at the junior level for a person working in one or more of the following fields: computational sociology, computational economics, computational politics or computational geography. We have a slight preference for people working on social networks, ‘big data,’ and/or geographic information systems. The Department of […]

Research Associate neededSocial and environmental transitions: Simulating the past to understand human behaviour. www.simulpast.esDuration of contract: September 2011- August 2015Duration of field work: January 2012-December 2012How and why hunter-gatherer groups persist in arid margins, in spite of available farming technology and proximity of an urban society? In other words, what are the key elements that characterise the differential adaptive performance in arid margin between hunter- […]