Jobs & Appointments

POSTDOCTORAL POSITION (Nov 2010 – Oct 2011) Looking for a SOCIAL SCIENTIST WITH SOCIAL SIMULATION BACKGROUND, INTERESTED IN SUPPORTING AND RESEARCHING PARTICIPATORY DEVELOPMENT OF ROLE PLAYING GAMES AND COMPANION MODELS. The Research Institution El Colegio de la Frontera Sur is a non-Profit, government funded, Mexican academic institution with 5 campuses on the southern border of Mexico. It integrates long-term research, Masters/PhD teaching, and participatory outreach through a host of […]

We have recently been awarded a National Science Foundation, Coupled Natural and Human Systems project titled “Strengthening Resilience of Arid Region Riparian Corridors: Ecohydrology and Decision-Making in the Sonora and San Pedro Watersheds.” See http://udallcenter.arizona.edu/wrpg/cnh/. We are looking for a PhD candidate with background as programmer/systems developer specializing in agent-based modeling, particularly related to water and landuse decision-making. This position requires […]

The School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan seeks candidates, preferably with postdoctoral experience, for a full-time, nine-month tenure track assistant professor position. The successful candidate will establish a strong research and teaching program in the arena of coupled human and natural systems, with an emphasis on how Africa’s most valuable natural resources are being used, managed, monitored, and marketed. Understanding the dynamic coupling of […]

Under the aegis of the Economic and Social Research Council and its National Centre for Research Methods,SIMIAN (Simulation Innovation: A Node) is offering User Fellowships in agent based simulation. You work in the UK and want to make effective use of agent based simulation outside the usual context of academic research could develop a clearly defined project of two weeks to two months duration would value a supportive and expert environment away from your everyday work could take up the […]

The Institute of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences in the Tropics and Subtropics – Chair of Land Use Economics searches for a highly qualified candidate at post-doctoral level. The position will focus on agent-based modeling of agricultural land use with special consideration of learning, group decisions and collective action. The candidate will contribute to the joint research efforts of meteorologists, soil scientists, agronomists and agricultural economists at Universität […]

******** * MSRC, Orebro University: * Open PhD Position * Alignment between Multi-Agent Simulation and Virtual 3d Worlds ******** A new 3-years PhD position is immediately available at the MoS Modeling and Simulation Center, University of Örebro, Sweden under the supervision of Dr. Franziska Kluegl. The major part of the PhD studies can be dedicated to research in connecting different […]

Post-Doctoral Research Opportunity Agent-Based Models for Sustainable Biofuel Supply Chain Design Research Participation Program U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and Development National Risk Management Research Laboratory Cincinnati, Ohio USA EPA-ORD/NRMRL-STD-2010-04 Project Description: A postdoctoral research project is available at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) National Risk Management Research Laboratory (NRMRL) in Cincinnati, Ohio. A current […]

The Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) of VU University Amsterdam invites applications for: Postdoc Global Land Use Modelling f/m For 1.0 fte Vacancy number: 1.2010.00122 The applicant will be based in the Department of Spatial Analysis and Decision Support at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM). This department is an international research group of about thirty researchers, faculty members and PhD students. The department has a leading role in spatial analysis of complex […]

Two Postdoctoral Fellows: Coupled Natural-Human Systems Modeling and Climate/Environmental System Modeling The University of Maine is launching an international search for two Sustainability Science Postdoctoral Fellows: one in the area of Coupled Natural-Human Systems Modeling and one in Climate/Environmental System Modeling. The successful candidates will join a new Sustainability Solutions Initiative (SSI) funded by a 5-year, $20 million NSF EPSCoR grant. SSI includes a team of 30+ […]

Two Assistant or Associate Professors Arizona State University’s Complex Adaptive Systems Initiative (CASI) invites applications for two tenure-track or tenured positions at the rank of assistant or associate professor. The successful candidate will have a tenure-track or tenured appointment in the academic unit most suitable in view of his/her background, skills and interests, and may fulfill all or part of his/her teaching duties as part of the Applied Mathematics in the Life and Social […]