Jobs & Appointments

Old Dominion University invites applications for the position of Executive Director of the Virginia Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis Center (VMASC), who also will serve as Associate Vice President for Data Sciences in the Office of Research. VMASC is a multidisciplinary modeling and simulation research institution with current projects in the areas of medical/healthcare, transportation, education, human behavior, and defense among others. The Executive Director/AVP will be expected to […]

Two five-year positions supported by the National Science Foundation and The Ohio State University for an interdisciplinary research project that examines the environmental conditions that lead to human territorial behavior in pastoral ecosystems as well as how territoriality shapes the environment. Based in the Dhufar highlands of Southern Oman, the project will provide new insights into whether the dynamics of woodland-grassland-woodland cycling are coupled with pulses in human […]

Faculty Positions in Complex Systems The Center for the Study of Complex Systems (CSCS) at the University of Michigan seeks applicants for three (3) tenure-track faculty positions in complex systems science. These are University-year appointments at the Assistant Professor level although more senior applicants will be considered as well. The expected start date is 1 September 2017. 1) Complex Systems Required Qualifications: We seek applicants with a research agenda focused on the […]

1. Uses a high degree of concentration to plan, develop, build, test, validate and operate multiscale agent-based simulation models for a variety of nonlinear, time-based problems within ALSAC, drawing on a current inventory of predictive models as well as exploratory work. Multiscale agent-based simulation models for strategic and/or tactical applications in Java or C++ produce system-level financial and other outputs (metrics, forecasts) based on (a) consumer econometrics, algorithms, […]

For a detailed description of the PhD-position: http://www.vu.nl/nl/werken-bij-de-vu/vacatures/2014/296.asp Contents of the research Economic losses due to weather related natural hazards continue to rise rapidly in all regions of the world. For example, extreme flood events and storm surges all have a significant impact on society, and these impacts will increase in the future through climate change and socio economic developments. Much research to date has focused on the assessment and […]

Job Posting on University of Delaware web site: https://wahrprd.nss.udel.edu:4450/psp/RESUME/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_CE.GBL?Page=HRS_CE_JOB_DTL&Action=A&JobOpeningId=102460&SiteId=900&PostingSeq=1 Job Title: Associate Professor - Computational Social Science Job ID: 102460 Location: Newark, Delaware The University of Delaware’s College of Arts and Sciences has identified computational social science as a strategic initiative. The emergence of large datasets and powerful computing […]

CLIMATE CHANGE AND REGIME SHIFTS IN FLOOD-PRONE URBAN AREAS: AN AGENT-BASED APPROACH Background: Coupled socio-ecological systems (SES) are known to experience regime shifts. By this we mean fast and usually irreversible changes in systems, like the ones that we observe when ecosystems collapse due to overexploitation, or when economy cannot recover after natural disasters (floods, droughts, etc.), or when societies undergo dramatic changes as in resource-driven conflicts. The topic is of […]

Postdoctoral Research Associate FSC (Job # 10865) Institute of Human Origins Arizona State University The Institute of Human Origins (IHO), a research center of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate position to support a multi-year, transdisciplinary research grant, “Evolutionary Foundation of Human Uniqueness: Recovering Patterns of Cognition, Cumulative Culture, and […]

The National Research Center for Integrated Natural Disasters Management (CIGIDEN) started its operation in 2013 and is located at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile. The Center is a cross-disciplinary research initiative aimed to mitigate the tremendous and complex impact of natural disasters in the society, considering the physical infrastructure, the human stock, and the economic development. The Center takes advantage of Chile as one of the most active […]

CIGIDEN is a cross-disciplinary research initiative aimed to mitigate the tremendous and complex impact of natural disasters in the society, considering the physical infrastructure, the human stock, and the economic development. The Center takes advantage of Chile as one of the most active natural seismic and geo-hazard laboratories in the world. Faculty members working at CIGIDEN include people from different areas of Civil Engineering, Psychology, Sociology, Urban Studies and Geography […]