Jobs & Appointments

The Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University is seeking a postdoctoral fellow to take a leadership role in the modeling interacting networks of water, power and roads to evaluate the resilience of coupled infrastructure systems. The position is part of an innovative NSF-funded project on Resilience Simulation for Water, Power & Road Networks. The candidate will be encouraged to develop his/her own research program within the broad aims of the […]

For a detailed description of the PhD-position: http://www.vu.nl/nl/werken-bij-de-vu/vacatures/2014/296.asp Contents of the research Economic losses due to weather related natural hazards continue to rise rapidly in all regions of the world. For example, extreme flood events and storm surges all have a significant impact on society, and these impacts will increase in the future through climate change and socio economic developments. Much research to date has focused on the assessment and […]

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and the New Jersey Agricultural Research Station, through the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, invites applications for a 18 month-2-year post-doctoral appointment as part of the Center for Resilient Landscapes collaboration with the USDA Forest Service (USDA-FS), beginning as soon as February 2015. The appointee will work on developing an applied socio-ecological simulation model of governance and ecological processes to […]

We are seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Researcher in the field of Socio-Ecological Systems Modelling for a period of 2 years. Based within the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh, you will join a team of researchers studying the effects of environmental change on land use, the impacts of climate change on rural and urban environments and how people will adapt to these changes. We explore these themes at multiple temporal and spatial scales using different methods such as […]

Detailed ad: http://abm-lab.yorku.ca/files/PDF2014.pdf As part of the strategic direction for expansion of the research areas at the Agent-Based Modelling Laboratory (ABM-Lab) at York University, applications are invited for two postdoctoral positions in Disease Modelling for Understanding Health Benefits and Cost Effectiveness. Successful candidates will be expected to play a major role in trans-disciplinary projects applying modelling tools and simulation techniques, data analysis […]

At the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ in Leipzig, Germany (Department of Ecological Modelling) the Junior Research Group “”POLISES - Global food security policies and their social-ecological side effects in regions prone to global change” () funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research is established. In this group the following vacancy is offered at the nearest possible date: ## PhD Position (m/f) ## Subject: Social-ecological impacts of financial risk- […]

Modelling Household Energy Demand Salary: up to £37,394 The WholeSEM project is a four-year, £5.7 million collaboration between the Universities of Surrey and Cambridge, UCL and Imperial College funded by EPSRC to develop, integrate and apply models of future energy supply and demand in collaboration with stakeholders in academia, government and industry in the UK and internationally. For further information about the consortium please visit . The work at Surrey focuses on understanding […]

The Human-Environment Relations Group, Department of Geography, at LMU Munich is looking for another Post-Doc / Senior Scientist. Deadline 8th September 2014. Please feel free to forward the details to anyone you think may be interested. Agent-based modellers are welcome to apply! See the advert at: http://www.geographie.uni-muenchen.de/department/fiona/aktuelles/stellenangebote/index.php?stelle_id=572&kontakt_id=197 Post-doctoral Position (100%; Part-time possible) The Chair of Human- […]

The Cooperative Multi-Agent System (SMAC) group of the IRIT Lab in Toulouse, France is offering 2 PhD positions: both positions are related to the ANR Project GEN* (http://www.genstar.fr) which aims at providing tools and methods for the generation on synthetic populations for agent-based social simulations. The PhDs will conduct their research at the University Toulouse 1 Capitole (http://www.ut-capitole.fr) in the IRIT laboratory (http://www.irit.fr). Position 1: Models for the […]