Jobs & Appointments

Contract available for 2 years from February 2013 Salary: up to £35,938 per annum TELL ME (Transparent communication in Epidemics: Learning Lessons from experience, delivering effective Messages, providing Evidence) is a 36 month project funded by the European Commission within Framework 7, which aims to provide evidence and to develop models for improved risk communication during infectious disease crises. TELL ME combines public health, social sciences, behavioral sciences, political […]

We are happy to announce a fully funded PhD position on developing an economic agent-based model. The projects aims to study non-marginal changes and non-linear behavior in energy markets under different scenarios of climate change mitigation policies (please see details in the attachment). Candidates with a background in economics, mathematics or computer science and modeling are welcome to apply.

Profile The chair of Human-Environment Relations at the Department of Geography, University of Munich, has an inter- and transdisciplinary orientation and studies the question of transition towards sustainability. Key issues thereby are the processes in Human-Environment Systems which are at the interface of individual decision-making, social structure, governance, and environment. The research fields tackled include sustainable resource management (e.g., energy, water, phosphorous); […]

The University of Bornemouth, UK, has an exciting PhD position open on Agent Based Modelling in the context of transitions towards sustainability. Information can be found at: http://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=38381&LID=156

PhD Position at the Centre for Policy Modelling on: Data-mining, Visualisation and Agent-Based Modelling Stipend: £13,290 per annum + applicable fees for 3 years Centre for Policy Modelling Manchester Metropolitan University Business School Applications are invited to apply for this fully-funded doctoral position at the Centre for Policy Modelling, to investigate some of the potential synergies between data-mining, visualisation techniques and agent-based modelling. This studentship is […]

The projects will be conducted in the Centre for Spatial Analysis and Policy (CSAP) which is a leading research cluster for spatial analysis and agent-based modelling. The research council deadline for applications is in early February, so if you are interested please get in contact soon so that we have time to help with the application. For more information, please contact myself ([email protected]), Andrew Evans ([email protected]) or Alison Heppenstall […]

Profile The chair of Human-Environment Interactions at the Department of Geography, University of Mu­nich, has an inter- and transdisciplinary orientation and studies the question of transition towards sustainability. Key issues thereby are the processes in Human-Environment Systems which are at the interface of individual decision-making, social structure, governance, and environment. The research fields tackled include sustainable resource management (e.g., energy, water, phosphorous); […]

PhD StudentshipCentre for Policy Modelling (http://cfpm.org)Manchester Metropolitan University(as part of the EPSRC-funded SCID project)Stipend: £13,290 per annum + applicable fees1+3 years or 3 years depending on previous research experienceup to 4 year PhD studentship in Agent-based modelling, at the Centrefor Policy Modelling , Manchester, UK starting sept2011, as part of the EPSRC funded SCID project(http://scid-project.org).Details at: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ACR878/phd-studentship/

PhD student position (m/f)The Department of Computational Landscape Ecology (www.ufz.de/cle) invites applications for1 PhD Student position (m/f)- Code digit 51/2011 –to commence as early as possible. The appointment is limited to 3 years and is subject to final funding approval by the funding agency. The position is part of the project “Energieeffiziente Stadt Delitzsch” (http://uni-leipzig.de/~effstadt/cms/).The candidate is expected to develop an agent-based model on residential […]

University of Kassel, Position for a scientific assistant, code number 15271 The Center for Environmental Systems Research at the University of Kassel is offering two PhD Candidate positions (50%) in the context of the SPREAD project funded by German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The SPREAD (Scenarios of Perception and Reaction to Adaptation) project aims to develop spatially and temporally explicit computer simulations which model the diffusion of changed patterns of […]