Jobs & Appointments

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 […]

I work for Parsons Brinckerhoff’s Systems Analysis Group, which is an international leader in the development of large-scale simulation models of transportation and land-use systems. Our Portland Oregon team is looking to add someone with excellent software development skills to work on state-of-the-art travel demand forecasting and land use models for public agencies around the world. We develop a variety of computer models, with many of the models running across multiple […]

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 […]

Post-doctoral researcher in Formalization and Simulation of Social Dynamics Place: GSADI - Analytical Sociology and Institutional Design Group, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), http://gsadi.uab.cat. Barcelona, SPAIN Requirements: Candidates should hold a PhD and have prior training in Sociology or business/social sciences profile, combined with formal and computational skills. Candidates must be willing to relocate to Barcelona area for three years (2012-2014). Familiarity with […]

Job opening: 4 year PhD position at Delft University of Technology in the field of Multi-Agent Organisations. This position is part of the SHINE (Social Heterogeneous Information Network Environment) project and will be performed as a cooperation between the research group Men-Machine Interaction at the Faculty Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, and the research group ICT at the Faculty Technology, Policy and Management. Daily supervisors are Dr. Virginia Dignum and […]

PhD Studentship at the Centre for Policy Modelling as part of the EPSRC-funded SCID project (re-advertised due to an appointed candidate dropping out for personal reasons) Stipend: £13,290 per annum + applicable fees From time of appointment up to August 2015 maximum Centre for Policy Modelling Manchester Metropolitan University Business School Applications are invited students to work on modelling projects associated with the EPSRC project: the Social Complexity of Immigration and […]

University of Surrey - Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Department of Mathematics(Ref: 8413)Salary up to £31,798 per annum(subject to experience and qualifications)Applications are invited for a postdoctoral research fellowship in the area of dynamic complex networks available for 24 months from 1st January 2012 through the project Evolution and Resilience of Industrial Ecosystems (ERIE). The successful candidate will join an interdisciplinary research team of mathematicians, […]

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position in mathematical epidemiology (infectious disease modelling) at the University of Toronto. The successful candidate will be expected to play a major role in a multi-investigator, multi-institutional project supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) regarding strategies for protecting vulnerable Canadian populations from emerging infectious diseases. The research will use agent-based models to address a range of […]

e-Policy is a new project funded by the European Commission under its Framework 7 programme that aims to equip policymakers with integrated models, visualization, simulation and opinion mining techniques that improve the outcomes of complex decision making. The project will involve expertise from computational social science, environmental engineering, optimization, machine learning and visualization. It will use the formation of a regional energy plan in the Emilia Romagna region of Italy […]

PhD StudentshipCentre for Policy Modelling (http://cfpm.org)Manchester Metropolitan University(as part of the EPSRC-funded SCID project)Stipend: £13,290 per annum + applicable fees1+3 years or 3 years depending on previous research experienceup to 4 year PhD studentship in Agent-based modelling, at the Centrefor Policy Modelling , Manchester, UK starting sept2011, as part of the EPSRC funded SCID project(http://scid-project.org).Details at: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ACR878/phd-studentship/