Jobs & Appointments

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). ## […]

Course on Agent-based Modeling and Simulation The International Advanced Studies in Demography (IDEM) program is currently accepting applications for the upcoming IDEM winter semester 2013/14 at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock, Germany. The IDEM winter program includes an advanced course on Agent-based Modeling and Simulation, see http://tinyurl.com/idem-abm Other IDEM winter courses cover the Demography of Aging across the Tree of Life, Spatial […]

OCE Post Doctoral Fellow - National Land Use Modelling for Australia · Conduct scientific research with real impact! · Offering outstanding career development and professional support · Join CSIRO, Australia’s premier science and technology research organisation The Position: We are seeking a highly motivated and high achieving individual with a recent PhD in Economics, Geography, Operations Research or a related field with interest in integrated environmental economic modelling for a […]

The Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, research group „Future Energy and Mobility Structures“, is currently looking for a Research fellow on a part-time basis for a doctoral position initially limited to 3 years in the research field „Agent-based modelling of measures increasing the energy efficiency of buildings“ - Reference number 051/13/1 - The position of a research fellow, which is envisaged as a part-time job (19,92 hours per week) and will be remunerated […]

Applications are invited for a 3-year Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) PhD Studentship based at CoDE under the supervision of Professor James Nazroo, Dr Laia Becares, and Dr Nick Shryane. The studentship covers UK/EU tuition fees, an annual tax-free stipend at Research Council rates (£13,590 in 2012/13), plus the Advanced Quantitative Methods supplement (£3,000 per year) for a total of £16,590. Funding will be for three years of full-time study (+3 Scheme), starting in October […]

The Public Research Center Henri Tudor (www.tudor.lu) is recruiting a Scientific Programmer (M/F) Reference : CRTE/EEM-12/039 Type of professional profile: Researcher (R&D Engineer) Type of contract: Temporary Duration: 2 years (with possibility of extension) Place: Esch sur Alzette - LUXEMBOURG The successful candidate will support the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) team on the development of a practical and comprehensive methodology for the integration of Multi Agent Systems (MAS) and LCA. […]

An Agent-Based Model approach to understanding changes in ethnic relations: applications to neighbourhood ethnic composition and health. Applications are invited for a 3-year Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) PhD Studentship based at the new ESRC-funded Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) under the supervision of Professor James Nazroo, Dr Laia Bécares, and Dr Nick Shryane. The project provides a studentship covering UK/EU tuition fees and an annual tax-free stipend at […]

Institutions: The James Hutton Institute (JHI) & Centre for Policy Modelling, Manchester Metropolitan University (CPM) JHI PhD Supervisor: Dr G Polhill, JH Co-Supervisor: Dr A Girmona CPM/MMU PhD Director of Studies: Dr Bruce Edmonds Application Deadline: 15 January 2013 Funding Availability: Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only) Context In a landscape managed by multiple owners varying from homeowners and non-agricultural businesses through to estates and agri- […]

The PhD position is part of the project “Energieeffiziente Stadt Delitzsch” (http://uni-leipzig.de/~effstadt/cms/) and located at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ in Leipzig, Germany. The PhD candidate is expected to acquire and analyse data of spatial patterns of population dynamics and urban form in different European cities and develop conceptual agent-based models on residential mobility. These models help to explain observed patterns in different types of cities […]