Jobs & Appointments

The Department of Plant Ecology and Conservation Biology at University of Potsdam is currently advertising fully funded PostDoc positions (3 years) in modelling in biodiversity research: - 1 PostDoc: Spatially-explicit modeling of rapid transitions in community dynamics - 1 PostDoc: Modelling the resilience of coupled plant-soil community dynamics Deadline for application: Jan 27 !!

We have a number of positions open in our Complex Systems research group at USyd the moment (below). I was hoping that you may have or know a soon-to-finish student, postdoc or ECR in your group who might be suitable, or could otherwise help to spread the word? 1. Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Complex Systems (Level B/C). Research areas including information theory and complex networks theory. Sits in our Complex Systems Research Group, led by Prof. Mikhail Prokopenko. This is for a 3 yr […]

Postdoctoral Research Assistant for agent-based modelling project Vacancy Reference: 121606 Grade: 7 Salary Range: £30,738 - £37,768 p.a. Appointment Term: 2 years Closing Date: Monday, February 8, 2016 - 12:00 Applications are invited for a 24 month postdoctoral research assistant for an agent-based modelling project in collaboration with Professor Doyne Farmer and the INET research team. The post is available from 1 April 2016 or as soon as possible thereafter. The successful candidate […]

Closing date : 15/01/2016 Reference : HUM-07531 Faculty / Organisational unit : Humanities School / Directorate : Manchester Business School Division : Alliance MBS - IMP Division Employment type : Fixed Term Duration : 1 February 2016 until 31 January 2018 Location : Oxford Road, Manchester Salary : £38,896 to £47,801 per annum Hours per week : Full time We seek a highly skilled Research Fellow to work on a cutting-edge research project using agent-based modelling (ABM). This is a two […]

Applicants must be within 3 years of having completed their PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a closely related discipline. The successful candidate will have excellent English language communication skills (both written and verbal), with prior experience of writing scientific or technical articles. The successful candidate must possess a working knowledge of statistics and statistical methods. Applicants should have experience developing computational […]

This is a PhD position available at MAPIX technologies, UK & Utrecht University, The Netherlands, through the EU European Training Network SAF21. The candidate should have an MSc in Computational Linguistics, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Information Science, or Computer Science. Research domain: To uncover the potential wealth within unstructured and semi-structured textual data relevant to the multi-stakeholder fisheries market, this PhD research topic investigates the […]

The postdoctoral fellow will work collaboratively with the partners and stakeholders, and the International Centre for Infectious Diseases involved in research projects. Applicants should have significant experience in health economics, strategy evaluation, policy analysis, modelling and simulations for vaccine-preventable diseases, and statistical analysis. The successful candidate will have excellent English language communication skills (both written and verbal), with prior experience […]

The Laboratory of Urban Complexity and Sustainability (LUCAS) at the University of Nottingham has advertised a number of Ph.D opportunities for outstanding students. The following might be of interest: - PhD Studentship in Computer Modelling (Ref: ENG884) - PhD Studentship in Computer Modelling – Social Modelling (Ref: ENG886) This is an exciting opportunity to join LUCAS, to contribute to the research programme supported by the prestigious Leverhulme Research Programme Grant “Sustaining […]

We are looking for PhD candidates on Modelling Values Attributed to Smart Energy System Platforms. More information: http://www.tudelft.nl/index.php?type=a&lang=nl&id=11974&fid=557880. The position is open until July 30th. The Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management contributes to sustainable solutions for technical challenges in society by combining the insights from engineering with the humanities and the social sciences. This research project is part of the NWO programme on […]

Please check the project(s) and the job announcement here: http://www.biomove.org/. Many of the project include modelling, and much of the modelling will be agent-based. Volker Grimm, Leipzig