Jobs & Appointments

A fully funded 4 year PhD position is now open within the ERC Starting Grant project ‘SCALAR’. The project focuses on climate adaptation and resilience in cities, and will combine surveys, spatia[…]

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Agent-based Modelling and Data Analysis.
University of Cambridge - McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Vacancy Reference No: Salary: £31,60[…]

What can we learn from vast archives of satellite and drone imagery? Development Seed, with support from the Earth on AWS program at Amazon Web Services, is offering a fellowship to work on innovative projects using big Earth data to address big global challenges.

Our research group is developing an agent-based simulation tool to understand how human and natural systems interact in response to agricultural best management practices (BMPs). This research will seek to identify and assess the factors influencing farmer’s responses to proposed BMPs, develop simulation tools to link agent-based models of farmer decision making to a hydrological model of nutrient loading, and model scenarios to explore the resilience of watershed systems to changes in […]

two 2- year postdoc or researcher positions are available at the Stockholm Resilience Centre for modeling poverty traps and cross-scale interactions in social-ecological systems. We are seeking candidates with backgrounds in dynamical systems theory, complexity theory or related fields and interest in the dynamics of social-ecological systems, particularly in the context of natural resource management in fisheries and agriculture. For details, please see […]

At the Helmholtz Centre of Environmental Research UFZ Leipzig, Germany, a new research project will be launched with funds from the German Research Foundation: SEEMI (Social-Ecological Effects of Microinsurance). It focuses on microinsurance, i.e. insurance products that are specifically targeted at low-income people in developing countries, and its potential adverse effects. Case studies include drought insurance in Kenya and Ethiopia and health insurance in Cambodia. The main research […]

The project will be carried out at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany and includes a 3-months research visit at the James Cook University, Australia Supervision by Volker Grimm, Ralf Seppelt, Graeme Cummings, Kathleen Hermans. Details: Deadline for application: 31 October 2016 Contact: Volker Grimm, Leipzig

Improving Resilience for the Rio Grande Coupled Human-Natural System Postdoctoral Research Position Geography and Environmental Sustainability, University of Oklahoma Job Description The Koch Lab is currently seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher to work with an interdisciplinary team of researchers on the integrated modeling of the Rio Grande Basin. The position is part of the project “Improving Resilience for the Rio Grande Coupled Human-Natural System”, funded by the USGS and will focus on […]

Position Description: The Department of Anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences at The Ohio State University invites applications for a tenure-track/tenured position at the assistant, associate or professor level, commencing autumn semester 2017. We are looking for a scholar whose research and teaching focus on how culture and institutions shape the resilience and sustainability of social-ecological systems. We are particularly interested in scholars who combine evolutionary […]

The Department of Plant Ecology and Conservation Biology at University of Potsdam is currently advertising fully funded PostDoc positions (3 years) in modelling in biodiversity research: - 1 PostDoc: Spatially-explicit modeling of rapid transitions in community dynamics - 1 PostDoc: Modelling the resilience of coupled plant-soil community dynamics Deadline for application: Jan 27 !!