Jobs & Appointments

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 Rowett Institute at the University of Aberdeen are seeking a highly motivated and ambitious research fellow to join a multidisciplinary research team of nutritionists, social scientists, computer modellers, environmental scientists and statisticians to work on a Scottish Government funded project modelling cultural, non-cultural and social influences on dietary choices in the context of healthy, environmentally sustainable diets. More details at […]

We are about to start a 3-year grant funded by the Qatar National Research Fund on modeling the adoption of residential solar photovoltaic systems in collaboration with the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center in Riyadh. The project will develop a decision-support software platform to test policy scenarios aimed at promoting the adoption of residential solar energy systems in Qatar and Saudi Arabia. We are looking for an expert on agent-based modeling with background in […]

The Deparmtne of Environment and Society at Utah State University is seeking highly qualified candidate who are commited to pursuing a PhD focused on understanding human-environmental interactions. More information can be found here: https://sites.google.com/site/jacopobaggio/students ### Social-Ecological Networks and Agent Based Modelling Students should be interested in agent-based modelling (ABM), network analysis, and participatory modelling. The successful candidate will work under […]

The James Hutton Institute welcomes applications to one of three new TB Macaulay fellowships spanning our computational, social and environmental science areas. The fellowship is based at our Aberdeen (UK) site and comes with 3 years funding plus generous start-up costs. This is an exciting three-year Research Fellowship to expand our activities in sustainability science, with particular focus on investigating ways to implement the UN Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs) in Scotland and […]

There are 2 fully funded PhDs being advertised as part of the Europe’s Lost Frontiers project at the University of Bradford, UK. One is specifically focused on computer simulation while the other is mainly seismic mapping, but with an emphasis on using the results within simulations. Deadline is 17th June 2016 with the positions to start in October 2016. Details are available at

The LAMSADE team in Paris-Dauphine is looking for a PhD student to work on a formalization of « threats » : “A formalization of threat for dealing with natural and industrial risks - Integrating Sen’s capability approach in an evaluation of loss and protection within a population » The PhD is funded by Paris-Dauphine University for 3 years. Contact: Juliette Rouchier Detailed subject: attached Required Profile - Master in Computer Science, Mathematics or Economics - Minimal knowledge in […]

The Computational Epidemiology Laboratory seeks an exceptional postdoctoral researcher with interdisciplinary interests and a passion for using complex systems models (e.g., agent-based, microsimulation, system dynamics) to improve human health and well-being. The current focus of the group is on developing complex systems models in the following areas: 1. Food access, food insecurity and health 2. Pediatric asthma healthcare utilization 3. Predicting asthma attacks due to multipollutant […]

We seek a quantitative scientist to drive the development of an integrated computer simulation model that uses innovative generalized agent-based representations of coupled humans and natural system components across scales. http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ANG825/research-associate/ This work contributes to a broader project bringing together social and natural scientists from four major countries (Brazil, China, UK, and USA), with influential stakeholder organizations, to form the International […]