Jobs & Appointments

Research Associate neededSocial and environmental transitions: Simulating the past to understand human behaviour. www.simulpast.esDuration of contract: September 2011- August 2015Duration of field work: January 2012-December 2012How and why hunter-gatherer groups persist in arid margins, in spite of available farming technology and proximity of an urban society? In other words, what are the key elements that characterise the differential adaptive performance in arid margin between hunter- […]

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 […]

Postdoctoral Scientist (social-ecological spatial analysis, modeling, and visualization) – Alaska The Resilience and Adaptive Management Group at the University of Alaska Anchorage invites applications for a Post Doctoral Fellow for interdisciplinary research related to spatial analysis, modeling, and visualization of social-ecological systems. The successful candidate will work with social and environmental scientists in analyzing and visualizing social and ecological data as part of an […]

The department of Information and Computing Sciences form the Utrecht University offers a two year postdoc position in the new European project SEMIRA that is part of the European ComplexityNET framework. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Project description ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SEMIRA is a European funded project, locally administered through the Dutch research Council NWO. The […]

POSTDOCTORAL POSITION (Nov 2010 – Oct 2011) Looking for a SOCIAL SCIENTIST WITH SOCIAL SIMULATION BACKGROUND, INTERESTED IN SUPPORTING AND RESEARCHING PARTICIPATORY DEVELOPMENT OF ROLE PLAYING GAMES AND COMPANION MODELS. The Research Institution El Colegio de la Frontera Sur is a non-Profit, government funded, Mexican academic institution with 5 campuses on the southern border of Mexico. It integrates long-term research, Masters/PhD teaching, and participatory outreach through a host of […]

University of Kassel, Position for a scientific assistant, code number 14812 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 […]

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 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 […]