Jobs & Appointments

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 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[…]

PhD Positions
A newly funded research project seeks to understand how both rural human communities and species populations will respond to challenges posed by climate change and is by a team of collaborators at the University of Maine (Dr. Tim Waring, Dr. BrianMcGill, Dr. Katie Corlew, Dr. Matthew Dube), and the University of Vermont (Dr. Meredith Niles, Dr. Nicholas Gotelli, Dr. Laurent Hébert-Dufresne). The project will synthesize large amounts of data and develop new modeling techniq[…]

Vacancy at the Rowett Institute of Nutrition & Health, where there is interest in using agent-based modelling to study the social complexity of dietary change.

For all the details of the two Ph.D. positions, click here: http://leronshultsblog.com/2020/08/03/four-new-research-positions-now-available-for-religion-ideology-and-prosociality-project/

For all the details of the two post-doctoral positions, click here: http://leronshultsblog.com/2020/08/03/four-new-research-positions-now-available-for-religion-ideology-and-prosociality-project/

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition
College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences (ACES)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign seeks a qualified applicant for the position of a full-time, 12 month Postdoctoral Research Associate. This position works closely with faculty to develop an agent-based model to simulate school meal[…]

Are you passionate about agent-based modeling and sustainability? Then this Assistant Professor position could be for you! Read more about the research group here http://www.sc3.center/ and about the job requirements here https://www.academictransfer.com/en/293240/assistant-professor-in-sustainability-and-complex-adaptive-systems/ . Deadline: October 16th 2020

We are seeking a research assistant for a 6-month contract starting in August 2020.

A goal of the project “Towards More Reliable Predictions: Multi-model Ensembles for Simulating the Corona Pandemic” is to analyse and combine the strengths of individual models into more superior ensembles of simulation models. In addition, we will study how the unique features of Agent-Based Social Simulation (ABSS) models can contribute to better understand the effects of different measures (interventions[…]