Postdoc position at the “Lendület” Research Center for Educational and Network Studies (RECENS) - Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA TK)

RECENS is a research center led by Károly Takács, promoting high quality research in social network analysis. RECENS is part of Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and is located in Budapest, Hungary in the beautiful Buda castle.
We are seeking a candidate who will participate in our research project “Competition and Negative Networks: The Origin, Dynamics, and Harmful Consequences of Negative Relations”. The overall project proposal is accessible at http://www.recensproject.hu/eng.
The ideal candidate should have one of the following profiles:
- a strong analytical background and expertise in agent based simulation to study network dynamics
or
- a background and experience in advanced social network analysis, and familiarity with ERGM models.

The selected candidate will have no teaching obligations and can devote all of his or her time on research activities. The job is renewable to a researcher position upon a successful evaluation that will particularly consider the record of publications in international journals.

Applicants should send a CV and a sample paper no later than 24 August, 2012 to [email protected].
For more information, please contact Borbala Schenk, Sectretariat of the General Director, Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences at [email protected]
This post is available for a period of two or three years commencing 1, September, 2012 or as soon as possible thereafter.

Closing date: 24 August, 2012