Jobs & Appointments

University of Surrey - Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Department of Mathematics(Ref: 8413)Salary up to £31,798 per annum(subject to experience and qualifications)Applications are invited for a postdoctoral research fellowship in the area of dynamic complex networks available for 24 months from 1st January 2012 through the project Evolution and Resilience of Industrial Ecosystems (ERIE). The successful candidate will join an interdisciplinary research team of mathematicians, […]

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 […]

Postdoctoral Scientist Position The Resilience and Adaptive Management Group (http://ram.uaa.alaska.edu/) at the University of Alaska Anchorage invites applications for a Post Doctoral Fellow for interdisciplinary research related to spatial analysis, modeling, and visualization of social-ecological systems. The successful candidate will work with social and environmental scientists in analyzing and visualizing social and ecological relationships as part of an NSF-funded study on water and […]

It is available a two year postdoc position at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (Italy). The position is funded by an European project on Complex Systems and Air Traffic Management. The positions should start in the fall 2011 (negotiable). The applicants are expected to work on the data analysis and statistical modeling of the European Air Traffic Management system and the development of an agent based model calibrated on the real data. For questions and information, please contact […]

Sustainable Solutions Initiative Postdoctoral Fellows Program - Positions available The University of Maine is conducting a search for Sustainability Science Postdoctoral Fellows. The successful candidates will join Maine’s Sustainability Solutions Initiative (SSI) funded in part by a 5-year, $20 million NSF EPSCoR grant. SSI includes a team of 50+ faculty and 25 doctoral students from a range of disciplines and multiple academic institutions statewide. SSI’s innovative research program […]

PhD StudentshipCentre for Policy Modelling (http://cfpm.org)Manchester Metropolitan University(as part of the EPSRC-funded SCID project)Stipend: £13,290 per annum + applicable fees1+3 years or 3 years depending on previous research experienceup to 4 year PhD studentship in Agent-based modelling, at the Centrefor Policy Modelling , Manchester, UK starting sept2011, as part of the EPSRC funded SCID project(http://scid-project.org).Details at: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ACR878/phd-studentship/

University of Kassel, Position for a scientific assistant, code number 15751The Center for Environmental Systems Research at the University ofKassel is offering one PhD Candidate position (50%) in the context ofthe SPREAD project funded by German Federal Ministry of Education andResearch.The SPREAD (Scenarios of Perception and Reaction to Adaptation) projectaims to develop spatially and temporally explicit computer simulationswhich model the diffusion of changed patterns of behaviour […]

Research Associate neededSocial and environmental transitions: Simulating the past to understand human behaviour. www.simulpast.esDuration of contract: September 2011- August 2015Duration of field work: January 2012-December 2012How and why hunter-gatherer groups persist in arid margins, in spite of available farming technology and proximity of an urban society? In other words, what are the key elements that characterise the differential adaptive performance in arid margin between hunter- […]

University of Kassel, Position for a scientific assistant, code number 15271 The Center for Environmental Systems Research at the University of Kassel is offering two PhD Candidate positions (50%) in the context of the SPREAD project funded by German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The SPREAD (Scenarios of Perception and Reaction to Adaptation) project aims to develop spatially and temporally explicit computer simulations which model the diffusion of changed patterns of […]

Postdoctoral Scientist (social-ecological spatial analysis, modeling, and visualization) – Alaska The Resilience and Adaptive Management Group at the University of Alaska Anchorage invites applications for a Post Doctoral Fellow for interdisciplinary research related to spatial analysis, modeling, and visualization of social-ecological systems. The successful candidate will work with social and environmental scientists in analyzing and visualizing social and ecological data as part of an […]