Jobs & Appointments

Research Associate neededSocial and environmental transitions: Simulating the past to understand human behaviour. www.simulpast.esDuration of contract: September 2011- August 2015Duration of field work: January 2012-December 2012How and why hunter-gatherer groups persist in arid margins, in spite of available farming technology and proximity of an urban society? In other words, what are the key elements that characterise the differential adaptive performance in arid margin between hunter- […]

TWO POST-DOCTORAL POSITIONS IN QUANTITATIVE FINANCE Two post-doctoral positions in Quantitative Finance at the SEFEMEQ Department - University of Rome Tor Vergata are announced. TITLE: Quantitative Analysis of Sustainable Investments QUALIFICATIONS AND ASSESSMENT GROUNDS FOR APPOINTMENT: The candidate should have completed, or be near to complete, a PhD in Economics, Finance, Statistics, Econometrics, Mathematics, or related fields. JOB DESCRIPTION The research is part of SIRP […]

The School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan seeks candidates, preferably with postdoctoral experience, for a full-time, nine-month tenure track assistant professor position. The successful candidate will establish a strong research and teaching program in the arena of coupled human and natural systems, with an emphasis on how Africa’s most valuable natural resources are being used, managed, monitored, and marketed. Understanding the dynamic coupling of […]

Research Fellow - Agent Based Modelling De Montfort University - Institute of Energy & Sustainable Development (IESD) Fixed term for 2 years in the first instance Grade F: £30,747 - £33,600 per annum http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ABN113/research-fellow-agent-based-modelling The IESD is a research-led multidisciplinary group of specialists whose aim is to make a worthwhile and significant contribution to sustainable development through research, consultancy and education. A researcher is sought […]

The Institute of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences in the Tropics and Subtropics – Chair of Land Use Economics searches for a highly qualified candidate at post-doctoral level. The position will focus on agent-based modeling of agricultural land use with special consideration of learning, group decisions and collective action. The candidate will contribute to the joint research efforts of meteorologists, soil scientists, agronomists and agricultural economists at Universität […]

The Institute for Environmental Systems Research at Osnabrück University has an opening for a Research Associate (100% A13) Societal Transformation Processes and Modelling of Social Systems from the 1st of September 2010 for an initial duration of three years with the possibility of extension for another three years. The tasks comprise research and teaching in the area of complex dynamics and modelling of social systems. This should include both the development of general concepts and […]

The department of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University has an open post-doctoral fellowship position in the areas of computational modeling, complexity, and social systems. The fellowship is for one year, with the possibility of renewal, and has a limited teaching load. The department is interdisciplinary, including the fields of economics, engineering, history, neuroscience, political science, and psychology. It has particular research strengths in behavioral […]

The interdisciplinary research centre REEDS at the UVSQ*, wishes to recruit two persons at post-doctoral or research officer level, for work on a novel interdisciplinary research project to develop a multi-agent model for a Neolithic agrarian society. The project OBRESOC — Un observatoire rétrospectif d’une société archéologique: la trajectoire du néolithique Rubané — is funded by the French national research agency (ANR) and coordinated by Professeur Jean-Pierre BOCQUET-APPEL, Directeur […]

Post-doc or Ph.D. student: machine learning applied to multi-agent social-ecological systems We are looking for a post-doc or Ph.D. student interested in the application of machine learning, specifically learning classifier systems, to multi-agent social-ecological systems. Experience with the design and implementation of machine learning and/or multi-agent systems and some knowledge of economics, anthropology or marine ecology is desirable but not necessary. The post-doc or Ph.D. student […]

San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) Job Opening: Economic/Demographic Research Analyst http://www.sandag.org/index.asp?jobid=226&fuseaction=jobs.detail Close Date: 3/12/10 With its suite of highly-sophisticated tools, including the Demographic and Economic Forecasting Model (DEFM), the Interregional Commute Model (IRCM), the Urban Development Model (UDM), TransCAD, and ESRI’s Geographic Information Systems (GIS), the Regional Models team supports numerous research and planning […]