Jobs & Appointments

The Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University is seeking a postdoctoral fellow to take a leadership role in the modeling interacting networks of water, power and roads to evaluate the resilience of coupled infrastructure systems. The position is part of an innovative NSF-funded project on Resilience Simulation for Water, Power & Road Networks. The candidate will be encouraged to develop his/her own research program within the broad aims of the […]

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and the New Jersey Agricultural Research Station, through the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, invites applications for a 18 month-2-year post-doctoral appointment as part of the Center for Resilient Landscapes collaboration with the USDA Forest Service (USDA-FS), beginning as soon as February 2015. The appointee will work on developing an applied socio-ecological simulation model of governance and ecological processes to […]

CLIMATE CHANGE AND REGIME SHIFTS IN FLOOD-PRONE URBAN AREAS: AN AGENT-BASED APPROACH Background: Coupled socio-ecological systems (SES) are known to experience regime shifts. By this we mean fast and usually irreversible changes in systems, like the ones that we observe when ecosystems collapse due to overexploitation, or when economy cannot recover after natural disasters (floods, droughts, etc.), or when societies undergo dramatic changes as in resource-driven conflicts. The topic is of […]

The successful candidate will work in one or more of the following areas: text analysis and text mining, social data collection, social and spatial analysis, and/or the development of social-ecological models. The successful candidate will work as a member of a team of interdisciplinary scientists in support of a collaborative NSF-funded study involving researchers at University of Idaho, University of Chicago, University College London, and University of New Hampshire. The study attempts […]

We are seeking a Post Doctoral Researcher to join an international project on the development of methods for analysis and visualization of ‘big data’ from computational agent-based models (ABMs) of coupled human-natural systems. This vacancy is part of a multidisciplinary multinational MIRACLE project (MIning Relationships Among variables in large datasets from CompLEx systems). MIRACLE is a joint project between the Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity at the Arizona State University […]

Postdoc in Complex Adaptive Systems and Sustainability The Department of Anthropology at the University of Maryland solicits applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate for a 12-month term beginning in July 2014, with a possibility of extension contingent upon external funding. The research topic is improving understanding of the sustainability of human-environmental interactions, broadly construed, with a focus on integrating anthropological, archaeological and environmental data, […]

ETH Zurich establishes a multi-disciplinary research team to work on risk governance-related challenges for deep geothermal energy, CO2 storage and hydropower projects. The new interdisciplinary research team will initially comprise three postdoctoral and/or senior scientists. The successful candidates are expected to participate in a growing cross-disciplinary research program, involving several professorships at ETH, with strong ties to other national and international partner […]

Protecting Knowledge Diversity and Promoting Resilience: Modelling Mexican Marginal Farmers’ Climate Adaptation Application Deadline: 17 January 2014 Supervised by Dr. Garry Polhill, and Dr B Slee at the James Hutton Institute and co-supervised with Prof. Bruce Edmonds (http://bruce.edmonds.name/) at the Centre for Policy Modelling (http://cfpm.org/), Manchester Metropolitan University (http://mmu.ac.uk/), and Dr. Matt Hare (http://www.seeconsult.org/en/index.php?page=matt-hare). ## […]

Research Fellow - Participatory Agent-Based Modelling Centre for Research in Social Simulation, University of Surrey Salary: up to GBP 29,541 per annum The Evolution and Resilience of Industrial Ecosystems programme (ERIE) is a large project funded by EPSRC under its ‘Complexity Science for the Real World’ theme that is addressing a series of fundamental questions about the application of complexity science to social and economic systems. The research aims to embed complexity science […]

Department of Sociology Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences University of Surrey Models in Policy Making - Funded PhD Studentship The Department of Sociology invites applications for a funded studentship associated with the interdisciplinary research project ERIE (Evolution and Resilience of Industrial Ecosystems), a joint venture with the Departments of Mathematics and Computing and the Centre for Environmental Strategy (http://erie.surrey.ac.uk). Models are increasingly being used to […]