Jobs & Appointments

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Research Fellow - Agent Based Modelling De Montfort University - Institute of Energy & Sustainable Development (IESD) Fixed term for 2 years in the first instance Grade F: £30,747 - £33,600 per annum http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ABN113/research-fellow-agent-based-modelling The IESD is a research-led multidisciplinary group of specialists whose aim is to make a worthwhile and significant contribution to sustainable development through research, consultancy and education. A researcher is sought […]

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Two PhD Studentships at the CPM available (as part of the SCID project ) Stipend: £13,290 per annum + applicable fees 1+3 years or 3 years deending on experience Centre for Policy Modelling Manchester Metropolitan University Business School Applications are invited for 2 phd students to work on modelling projects associated with the EPSRC project: the Social Complexity of Immigration and Diversity (SCID). This project is in association with the University of Manchester’s Institute for […]

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 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 behavioral […]

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 […]