Jobs & Appointments

LMU Munich is seeking to fill several exciting positions around Earth system modeling and land use. See here (or below) for further details and https://www.geographie.uni-muenchen.de/department/fiona_eng/department/geographie/index.html for general information on our group.

Opening for Post-Doc position at University of Illinois

Centre for Decision Research, Leeds University Business School, UK
Level: Post-doc
Location: Leeds, United Kingdom

Analysing Risk Perception and Preparedness to Develop Effective Disaster Risk Communication Strategies.

The TerraNeon project (PI : Jean-Daniel Kant) proposes to build an innovative decision-making tool aimed at reducing the impact of human activities on climate and biodiversity by adopting a highly systemic and multi-agent approach. TerraNeon is supported by CNRS Innovation, and Sorbonne University.

TerraNeon includes TerraSim, an agent-based simulator (composed of interacting software agents) to model and simulate: human activities (individual and social), economic activities (i[…]

This postdoc will work with all collaborators under the direction of Dr. Pat Zollner to develop an Agent Based Model of the behaviors of cage free chickens. This work will be informed by extensive empirical work and will use ODD & TRACE for documentation to compare alternative cage free housing systems based on chicken welfare and laying of eggs outside nest boxes. Work will incorporate perspectives from industry as well as interested non-governmental organizations.

We are seeking to appoint a Research Associate to engage in world-leading research in population health modelling and data science, with a specific focus on developing a smoking cessation model for England in partnership with University College London. The role sits within the Cancer Research UK funded programme grant “Targeting multiple levels of the smoking cessation system using novel scientific approaches”.

The role involves developing a novel agent-based model (ABM) of smoking cessati[…]

The selected candidate will be appointed a full-time position (1,0 fte) as a Forsker II/Senior researcher in the NORCE Kristiansand office. The working language is English, although knowledge of or willingness to learn Norwegian will be an additional advantage.

We are looking for a researcher to complement our CMSS team in working on a variety of upcoming projects. The successful candidate will initially be mainly involved in programming agent-based models for an EU HORIZON project, which […]

The Department of Management Science at the University of Strathclyde is advertising for Chancellor’s Fellow in Health Tech.

Candidates should be familiar with management science systems modelling for decision making in the management of complex systems.

These are attractive, strategic posts for PhD-holders with strong research potential. The post is equivalent to a US Assistant Prof or UK lecturer level but has a reduced teaching load to encourage the development of a research portfolio.

A three years PhD Position on “Model-based exploration of leverage points
to foster sustainable nitrogen management in German agriculture” is
offered from May 1, 2022 on with a methodological focus on
social-ecological modelling and agent-based modelling.

The aim of the PhD project is to investigate the effects of policy
measures for sustainable nitrogen management of farmers in Germany. This
shall be achieved by developing an integrated model complex that makes
both the socio-economic and[…]

Climate action demands drastic behavioural and social changes for a variety of actors. Success of technological interventions climate change mitigation and adaptation policies critically depends on our understanding of drivers of citizens’ behavior, including psychological biases, individual preferences, and social influence. We welcome an Assistant Professor with a passion to integrate and advance behavioural insights for effective climate policy design, communication and compliance concer[…]