Jobs & Appointments

WU - Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria Institute for the Environment and Regional Development Ecological Economics 2 Lectureships in Ecological Economics Submission Deadline: May 13, 2009 Reference number: 129595 Location: Vienna, Austria The Institute for the Environment and Regional Development invites applications for two lecturer / assistant professor positions (fixed-term for 6 years) to begin in the autumn of 2009. We seek candidates with research and teaching […]

Institution: ETH Zurich, Team of Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Dirk Helbing, Chair of Sociology, in particular of Modeling and Simulation Salary or grade: Postdoc or PhD Start date and contract length: March 1st 2009. Up to 4 years contract. Announcement at www.jobs.ethz.ch Description of position: The successful candidate will develop his/her research in collaboration with other members of the Chair of Sociology, in particular Modeling and Simulation (SOMS) at ETH Zurich. SOMS is a young, […]

The Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT) in Bremen has been recently elected member of the prestigious Leibniz Association, which is supported by the German Federal and State Governments. Through its research, ZMT contributes to developing science-based strategies for sustainable use of tropical coastal systems. To strengthen its research on the analysis of coastal tropical environments the ZMT is seeking a PhDStudent in ecological modelling. Focus will be on the spatial representation […]

Graduate Research Assistantship in Agent-based Land Market Modeling available with Dr. Dawn Parker at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada A graduate assistantship (minimum of three years of funding) is available for a highly qualified student interesting in developing agent-based models of ex-urban residential land markets. The research assistant will be part of SLUCE II project (Spatial Land Use Change and Ecological Effects), funded through the US National Science Foundation’s […]

The Institute for Social-Ecological Research (ISOE, www.isoe.de) in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, offers a three year post for a senior scientist in the area of modelling social-ecological systems. The successful candidate is expected to have strong expertise in recent modelling techniques (e.g. agent-based modelling, fuzzy logic) and should be familiar with complexity theory and theories of self-organisation. The thematic focus of the post is water research. As ISOE’s working language is […]

The School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE) at the University of Michigan is seeking applications from qualified, motivated, prospective PhD students to work on dissertation research related to the SLUCE II project (Spatial Land Use Change and Ecological Effects.) This is a collaborative, interdisciplinary research project involving six faculty members in the area of coupled human-natural systems. The project links agent-based modeling of human behaviors driving land use / land […]