Jobs & Appointments

Under the aegis of the Economic and Social Research Council and its National Centre for Research Methods,SIMIAN (Simulation Innovation: A Node) is offering User Fellowships in agent based simulation. You work in the UK and want to make effective use of agent based simulation outside the usual context of academic research could develop a clearly defined project of two weeks to two months duration would value a supportive and expert environment away from your everyday work could take up the […]

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 Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) of VU University Amsterdam invites applications for: Postdoc Global Land Use Modelling f/m For 1.0 fte Vacancy number: 1.2010.00122 The applicant will be based in the Department of Spatial Analysis and Decision Support at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM). This department is an international research group of about thirty researchers, faculty members and PhD students. The department has a leading role in spatial analysis of complex […]

Two Four-Year Research Fellow Posts in Complex Social Systems Simulation http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AAZ394/research-fellows-complex-systems-simulation-two-posts/ EPSRC Care Life Cycle Research Programme University of Southampton - School of Social Sciences £27,319 to £31,671 per annum The University of Southampton has recently been awarded over £3million by the EPSRC under its ‘Complexity Science in the Real World’ initiative to carry out research on the ‘Care Life Cycle: Responding to the […]

Two Postdoctoral Fellows: Coupled Natural-Human Systems Modeling and Climate/Environmental System Modeling The University of Maine is launching an international search for two Sustainability Science Postdoctoral Fellows: one in the area of Coupled Natural-Human Systems Modeling and one in Climate/Environmental System Modeling. The successful candidates will join a new Sustainability Solutions Initiative (SSI) funded by a 5-year, $20 million NSF EPSCoR grant. SSI includes a team of 30+ […]

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 […]

CABDyN Complexity Centre Grade 8 (£36,715 - £43,840 with discretionary range to £47,905) Fixed term post for two and a half years We are seeking to recruit a Senior Research Fellow in Complex Networks who will join the research team based at the CABDyN Complexity Centre at the University of Oxford. Further information on CABDyN and the full further particulars for the post are available here . The advertised post is funded through one of the Centre’s new projects: *‘ICTeCollective Project […]

A research position is available in the Sciences for Action and Sustainable Development (SAD) Department of INRA (France) at the Unit頍ixte de Recherche Dynamiques agricoles et foresti貥s dans les paysages ruraux (UMR 1201 DYNAFOR) to work on the Participatory Assessment and Modelling of change in livestock farming systems at the farm and the landscape level. The recruited scientist will join an interdisciplinary research group involved in long term social-ecological research on rural […]