Jobs & Appointments

A 1+1 years postdoctoral position is available at IFISC. The candidate is expected to work within the framework of the EC project EUNOIA with the aim of analyzing and modeling urban mobility patterns. The partners participating in EUNOIA include academic institutions: UCL, ETH and CEA as well as IFISC, the Barcelona city hall and companies as Nommon. Other industrial partners participating as external collaborators include BBVA and Telefonica. We are looking for a strongly motivated person […]

The LABSS, Laboratory on Agent Based Social Simulation, offers a 12-months (renewable in the context of a 3-years project) graduate fellowship position for a social simulator (computer scientist, physicist, or code-savy social scientist - see the full list in the detailed call), in the topic of “simulative and modelistic research on the relevance of social norms and of punishment in legal and illegal systems”, under the scientific responsibility of Dr. Rosaria Conte and Dr. Mario Paolucci. […]

Postdoc position at the “Lendület” Research Center for Educational and Network Studies (RECENS) - Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA TK) RECENS is a research center led by Károly Takács, promoting high quality research in social network analysis. RECENS is part of Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and is located in Budapest, Hungary in the beautiful Buda castle. We are seeking a candidate who will participate in our research project […]

Department of Sociology Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences University of Surrey Models in Policy Making - Funded PhD Studentship The Department of Sociology invites applications for a funded studentship associated with the interdisciplinary research project ERIE (Evolution and Resilience of Industrial Ecosystems), a joint venture with the Departments of Mathematics and Computing and the Centre for Environmental Strategy (http://erie.surrey.ac.uk). Models are increasingly being used to […]

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 Intelligent Modelling and Analysis Research Group in the School of Computer Science at Nottingham University invites applications for a PhD studentship in the wider area of “Strategic Modelling and Simulation of Human-Centred Complex Systems”. In our research we develop novel tools for decision makers (e.g. managers, policy makers) to help those making better informed decisions. The research is highly interdisciplinary, utilising methods and knowledge from fields like Computer Science, […]

The Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey, UK, invites applications for three PhD studentships associated with the interdisciplinary research project ERIE (Evolution and Resilience of Industrial Ecosystems), a joint venture with the Departments of Mathematics and Computing and the Centre for Environmental Strategy . The doctoral students will be part of the ERIE team that is using two case studies to explore a crucial aspect of the UK economy: the […]

I work for Parsons Brinckerhoff’s Systems Analysis Group, which is an international leader in the development of large-scale simulation models of transportation and land-use systems. Our Portland Oregon team is looking to add someone with excellent software development skills to work on state-of-the-art travel demand forecasting and land use models for public agencies around the world. We develop a variety of computer models, with many of the models running across multiple […]

Centre for Environmental Strategy, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Surrey Fully Funded PhD Studentship on the Role of Social and Physical Networks in Promoting Sustainable Industrial Systems The Centre for Environmental Strategy invites applications for a PhD studentship on the EPSRC-funded interdisciplinary research project ERIE (Evolution and Resilience of Industrial Ecosystems), a joint venture with the Departments of Mathematics, Computing and Sociology […]

Post-doctoral researcher in Formalization and Simulation of Social Dynamics Place: GSADI - Analytical Sociology and Institutional Design Group, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), http://gsadi.uab.cat. Barcelona, SPAIN Requirements: Candidates should hold a PhD and have prior training in Sociology or business/social sciences profile, combined with formal and computational skills. Candidates must be willing to relocate to Barcelona area for three years (2012-2014). Familiarity with […]