Jobs & Appointments

In the POLISES group at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ Leipzig, Germany, a three years PhD Position on “Modelling human-environment systems: How to effectively design climate risk instruments?” is offered from April 1, 2022 on with a methodological focus on agent-based modelling.

Are you an ambitious researcher looking for your next challenge? Do you want to apply your quantitative skills to provide insight into policy? Do you want to further your career in one of the UK’s leading research intensive Universities?

The University of Leeds is seeking to appoint a talented and highly motivated Research Fellow in Simulation Modelling to join The SIPHER Consortium, a large UK public health research initiative, established with funding from the UK Prevention Research Part[…]

The Laboratory of Agent Based Social Simulation (LABSS) at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) is opening a post-doc position for investigating how social norms emerge and change in on-line communities and the extent to which they affect the debate in the online context, e.g., spreading of misinformation and “fake news”, hate speech, etc. This line of research will contribute to the research agenda of the EU-funded HUMANE-AI […]

ABM Postdoc researcher at the University of Namur (Belgium)
MAPPY project funded by AXIS/JPI-Climate
Full time position - 10 months

We are seeking an outstanding Research Associate to undertake research for the EEIST project. The role will contribute directly to the new climate and energy-related economic and social modelling being conducted as part of EEIST. The EEIST project is developing and applying innovative policy assessment and complexity economics modelling approaches in the UK, China, India, Brazil and the EU.

School of Geography and the Environment, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QY

Grade 7: £33,309 - £40,9[…]

Two fully-funded PhD scholarships are available in agent-based modelling to explore interventions to increase cycling as an active, safe, and sustainable mode of transport. The PhD programs will be hosted by the Sustainable Mobility and Safety Research Group in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University.

The central goal of these PhD programs is to advance the understanding of how interventions (e.g. infrastructure, behaviour change campaigns, equipment, finan[…]

College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences

We have an opportunity for a Research Associate to contribute to the group’s research in complex system simulation methods, particularly agent-based modelling. The postholder requires up to date knowledge, understanding and experience of complex systems simulation modelling (including spatial agent-based models) and knowledge/experience of computer programming languages or platforms suitable for this kind of work. Experience in applying […]

College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences

Fixed term for 2 years

We have an opportunity for a Research Associate to contribute to the Unit’s research in complex systems simulation methods, and to the UKPRP-funded PHASE project (Population Health Agent-based Simulation Network). Within the research group, the postholder will contribute to research in complex systems methods as applied to population health, and will be a member of the Modelling Complex Systems workstream focu[…]

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I am looking to hire three postdocs in Computational Social Science at The Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s national institute for data science and AI. They will work as part of the Policy Modelling Theme, in an exciting research environment, and with a unique opportunity to have impact in real-world policymaking. These positions are for two years and take place […]

The Department of Geography of the University of Namur (located approx. 1 hour from Brussels) is hiring a postdoctoral researcher to work in the framework of the MAPPY project funded by AXIS/JPI-Climate (http://www.jpiclimate.eu/AXIS/Activities/MAPPY). This project studies the interactions between pollinators, plant diversity and crop yields, under climate and land use change. The hired researcher will continue the development of an agent-based model (ABM) to derive high-resolution land use[…]