Jobs & Appointments

The National Research Center for Integrated Natural Disasters Management (CIGIDEN) started its operation in 2013 and is located at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile. The Center is a cross-disciplinary research initiative aimed to mitigate the tremendous and complex impact of natural disasters in the society, considering the physical infrastructure, the human stock, and the economic development. The Center takes advantage of Chile as one of the most active […]

CIGIDEN is a cross-disciplinary research initiative aimed to mitigate the tremendous and complex impact of natural disasters in the society, considering the physical infrastructure, the human stock, and the economic development. The Center takes advantage of Chile as one of the most active natural seismic and geo-hazard laboratories in the world. Faculty members working at CIGIDEN include people from different areas of Civil Engineering, Psychology, Sociology, Urban Studies and Geography […]

http://cfusion.sph.emory.edu/PHEC/index.cfm?action=job_Details&JobID=46466 NYU - Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL CHANGE Post-doctoral position: Agent-based modeling of alcohol regulations DESCRIPTION: This 12 month full-time post- doctoral position would entail working with the project PIs, James Macinko (NYU Public Health) and Maurizio Porfiri (NYU Poly/Engineering),and joining a multidisciplinary research team […]

This is an exciting opportunity to join the City Sustainability Laboratory and to contribute to the research programme supported by the prestigious Leverhulme Programme Grant “Sustaining Urban Habitats: An Interdisciplinary Approach”. The aim of this programme is to develop a distinctively interdisciplinary approach to producing and evaluating scenarios for sustainable living in urban habitats. There is an urgent need to envision and investigate approaches to sustaining urban habitats; to […]

Postdoctoral fellowship (OT-Med, Aix-Marseille University, France) : Adaptation to Environmental Change : A Social Learning Process We are looking for a candidate for a post doctoral fellowship who will be part of a project (AMENOPHYS) devoted to analysing the adaptation of societies and economies to their changing environment particularly with reference to the Mediterranean and North African areas. The candidate would be expected to collaborate in the development of models to explain how […]

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 […]

A one year post-doctoral opportunity with the University of Dundee (but located at The James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen) is available to work on the MIRACLE project (http://wici.ca/new/research/digging-into-data-did-research/) funded by the Digging into Data challenge (http://www.diggingintodata.org/). The MIRACLE project focuses on outputs of agent-based models, and aims to create web-based tools enabling practitioners to apply data mining tools and visualisation techniques to the […]

Project Description: Economic and financial engineering studies economic and financial systems by means of a multidisciplinary approach involving competences arising from engineering, economics, computer science, mathematics and physics. In this context, the research activity will be focused on modelling and implementing an artificial financial economy based on heterogeneous interacting agents and on developing the software platforms for simulations that will provide a powerful and […]

The Chair of Human-Environment Relations at the Department of Geography, University of Munich, has an inter- and transdisciplinary orientation and studies the question of transition towards sustainability. Key issues thereby are the processes in Human-Environment Systems which are at the interface of individual decision-making, social structure, governance, and environment. Our research fields include sustainable resource management (e.g., energy, water, phosphorous); sustainable regional […]