Jobs & Appointments

e-Policy is a new project funded by the European Commission under its Framework 7 programme that aims to equip policymakers with integrated models, visualization, simulation and opinion mining techniques that improve the outcomes of complex decision making. The project will involve expertise from computational social science, environmental engineering, optimization, machine learning and visualization. It will use the formation of a regional energy plan in the Emilia Romagna region of Italy […]

Sustainable Solutions Initiative Postdoctoral Fellows Program - Positions available The University of Maine is conducting a search for Sustainability Science Postdoctoral Fellows. The successful candidates will join Maine’s Sustainability Solutions Initiative (SSI) funded in part by a 5-year, $20 million NSF EPSCoR grant. SSI includes a team of 50+ faculty and 25 doctoral students from a range of disciplines and multiple academic institutions statewide. SSI’s innovative research program […]

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/

We have recently been awarded a National Science Foundation, Coupled Natural and Human Systems project titled “Strengthening Resilience of Arid Region Riparian Corridors: Ecohydrology and Decision-Making in the Sonora and San Pedro Watersheds.” See http://udallcenter.arizona.edu/wrpg/cnh/. We are looking for a PhD candidate with background as programmer/systems developer specializing in agent-based modeling, particularly related to water and landuse decision-making. This position requires […]

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 […]

Research Fellow Sustainable Industrial Ecosystems University of Surrey - Department of Sociology Grade Level 4 Ref. 7613 Salary Range - From £28,983 Salary Range - To £32,620 Close Date Sunday, June 20, 2010 The Evolution and Resilience of Industrial Ecosystems programme (ERIE) is a new project funded by EPSRC under its ‘Complexity Science for the Real World’ theme that will address a series of fundamental questions relating to the application of complexity science to social and economic […]

Two PhD Studentships at the CPM available (as part of the SCID project ) Stipend: £13,290 per annum + applicable fees 1+3 years or 3 years deending on experience Centre for Policy Modelling Manchester Metropolitan University Business School Applications are invited for 2 phd students to work on modelling projects associated with the EPSRC project: the Social Complexity of Immigration and Diversity (SCID). This project is in association with the University of Manchester’s Institute for […]

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 […]

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 […]