Jobs & Appointments

The Modeling Religion in Norway project invites applications for a full-time, three year post-doctoral position. Expertise in computer modeling and simulation is required, with knowledge of AnyLogic and/or NetLogo preferred. The ideal candidate will also have expertise in one or more of the following areas: mining big data, predictive analysis, cognitive or social scientific study of religion. Click here for a link to a detailed position announcement and online application website. The […]

More information below, or for full details, and how to apply, see the website. The deadline is 31st March. http://www.lida.leeds.ac.uk/phd.html The University of Leeds is seeking talented and highly motivated doctoral researchers to join the Consumer Data Research Centre (CDRC) which is being established with funding from the Economic and Social Research Council’s (ESRC) Big Data Network. Deadline for applications: 31st March New data relating to both the social and physical world are […]

The Center for Complexity in Business at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business seeks applications for a postdoctoral fellowship for the 2014-2015 school year. The mission of the Center for Complexity in Business is to become the premier international academic research center for the application of complex systems method to business and management science. This postdoctoral fellowship position will aid in helping the Center achieve this mission through research in […]

We are seeking a Post Doctoral Researcher to join an international project on the development of methods for analysis and visualization of ‘big data’ from computational agent-based models (ABMs) of coupled human-natural systems. This vacancy is part of a multidisciplinary multinational MIRACLE project (MIning Relationships Among variables in large datasets from CompLEx systems). MIRACLE is a joint project between the Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity at the Arizona State University […]

The Centre for Studies in Technology&Sustainable Development and the Department of Geo-information Processing at the University of Twente look for a postdoctoral researcher to join the international MIRACLE project (MIning Relationships Among variables in large datasets from CompLEx systems). The goal of this research is to develop methods and web-based tools for analysis and visualization of big data from agent-based models of human-environment systems. The details on the project, […]

Post-doctoral Opportunity- Land Change Modeling and Coupled Natural-Human Systems - Purdue University The Human-Environment Modeling and Analysis Laboratory (www.human-environment.org) in the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources at Purdue University invites applications for an exciting post-doctoral position in land change modeling and coupled natural-human systems. The incumbent will conduct research on several high profile NSF, USGS, NOAA, USDA and EPA funded projects that […]

The George Mason University, Krasnow Institute, Department of Computational Social Science (Fairfax, Va., USA) has a nine-month, tenure-track Assistant Professor opening at the junior level for a person working in one or more of the following fields: computational sociology, computational economics, computational politics or computational geography. We have a slight preference for people working on social networks, ‘big data,’ and/or geographic information systems. The Department of […]