Jobs & Appointments

Modeling and Simulation of Health Behavior Faculty Position - Assistant or Associate Professor (TS) (#0130144). The Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences (BCHS) at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health (http://www.publichealth.pitt.edu/) is announcing a full-time faculty position in modeling and simulation of health behavior. We seek an assistant or associate professor with skills in computational, simulation, and modeling approaches to the dynamics […]

Contract available for 2 years from February 2013 Salary: up to £35,938 per annum TELL ME (Transparent communication in Epidemics: Learning Lessons from experience, delivering effective Messages, providing Evidence) is a 36 month project funded by the European Commission within Framework 7, which aims to provide evidence and to develop models for improved risk communication during infectious disease crises. TELL ME combines public health, social sciences, behavioral sciences, political […]

The SMAC Team of the IRIT lab (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse) invites applications for a one-year postdoctoral fellowship in the EmoTES project funded by the ANR. The aim of the EmoTES project is to study a specific class of emotions, so-called “strategic emotions”, namely those emotions such as guilt, remorse… which arise in the context of strategic interaction (that is, when an agent’s utility of a given choice also depends on other agents’ behaviors). The main goal […]

The Center for Applied GIScience at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (http://gis.uncc.edu) is seeking a broadly trained post-doctoral research associate in Geographic Information Science with a focus on spatiotemporal simulation of complex adaptive spatial systems. Specific preferred requirements and expectations include 1) expertise in spatiotemporal simulation (e.g., agent-based models and cellular automata) and complexity theory; 2) expertise or experience in quantitative […]

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, […]