Jobs & Appointments

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[…]

Whiteshield Partners is a global strategy & public policy advisory firm with a track record of delivering innovative perspectives and tangible results to an established portfolio of leaders from governments, international organizations and Fortune 500 companies.
We are looking for an Agent-Based modeler, who is interested in building and maintaining agent-based and other models with an emphasis on economic modeling

In This Position You Will:
o Build economic and social models using Agent-B[…]

Whiteshield Partners is a global strategy & public policy advisory firm with a track record of delivering innovative perspectives and tangible results to an established portfolio of leaders from governments, international organizations and Fortune 500 companies.
Whiteshield Partners is hiring a talented front-end and Python programmer, who is familiar with data visualization.

In This Position You Will:
o Design and develop data analysis and visualization tools
o Build simple web-front end[…]

Whiteshield Partners is a global strategy & public policy advisory firm with a track record of delivering innovative perspectives and tangible results to an established portfolio of leaders from governments, international organizations and Fortune 500 companies.
Whiteshield Partners is hiring a socio-economic modeler, who is interested in building and maintaining agent-based, micro-simulation, SD and other models, with an emphasis on social, population and economic modeling.

In This Positi[…]

Whiteshield Partners is a global strategy & public policy advisory firm with a track record of delivering innovative perspectives and tangible results to an established portfolio of leaders from governments, international organizations and Fortune 500 companies.
We are looking for a data-scientist, who works with statistical methods and machine learning methods on the intersection of big data and socio-economic modeling.

e are looking for a post-doctoral researcher who has experience in analytic philosophy and a background in formal modelling and/or agent-based simulations, to study norms of collective deliberation and group decision-making. This is a full-time, 2-year position at the world-known Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics. Read on to learn more about the project and this call!

The ENCODE project: Explicating Norms for Collective Deliberation (NWO VIDI project)
Deliberation is often see[…]

Research Associate at Centre for Sustainable Road Freight, Heriot-Watt University; responsible for leading the agent based modelling activity. The centre has focused on solutions that will deliver net zero carbon emissions and therefore reflect the emerging energy transitions.

Research Associate at Centre for Logistics & Sustainability, Heriot-Watt University; responsible for leading the agent based modelling activity. The Sustainable Cold-Chain project will bring together world leading interdisciplinary researchers to provide a whole systems approach overseeing technology, finances, food security and sociological aspects of how we can deliver demand and climate adaptation, resilience and decarbonisation of the cold-chain in the food industry simultaneously.

Reference : UMR5667-STEMAU-015
Workplace : LYON 07
Date of publication : Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Scientific Responsible name : Yoan COUDERT
Type of Contract : PhD Student contract / Thesis offer
Contract Period : 36 months
Start date of the thesis : 1 October 2021
Proportion of work : Full time
Remuneration : 2 135,00 € gross monthly

A job opportunity is available working with Gary Pollhil at the James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen, on agent-based modelling in various projects with stakeholders. It is listed as a permanent position, so a real opportunity to develop your career in social simulation.