Jobs & Appointments

Kiel University seeks to appoint more women to professorships. The Graduate School “Human Development in Landscapes” at Kiel University (CAU) invites applications for the position of: Professorship (W2) in “Ancient Socio-Environmental Modelling” The appointment is initially for five years with tenure track. The Graduate School (www.uni-kiel.de/landscapes/) is funded in the framework of the German Excellence Initiative and will be transferred into the Johanna Mestorf Academy as a permanent […]

VU University Amsterdam is accepting applications for an exciting postdoc position in the Institute for Environmental Studies. The postdoc will contribute to research within various land change projects within the department with a main objective to develop and test innovative methods for simulating land system changes at regional to global scales in the context of climate and environmental change. The successful candidate has a strong interest to represent human agency in large-scale land […]

PhD student position on Agent-Based Computational Economics A three-year PhD student position on Agent-based Computational Economics, starting January 1st 2014, is available at the Department of Mechanical, Energetics, Management and Transport Englineering of the University of Genova, Italy. Research will be focused on agent-based macroeconomics and financial stability issues within the framework of a new EU funded three-year project starting on October 1st, 2013. The EU project aims to […]

The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) has an open call for postdoctoral fellowships to start in March, 2014 (with a close deadline!). Candidates should have obtained a PhD degree within the last three years and be under 36 years, both to the date of the beginning of the fellowship. The area of interests of candidates should fall within complex systems, artificial life, information, evolution, cognition, robotics, and/or philosophy. […]

THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL CHANGE PARTICULARS OF APPOINTMENT Research Associate The Social Complexity of Immigration and Diversity (SCID) 1. The University invites applications for the above post tenable from 1 September 2013 (or as soon as possible after that) for a period of one year (fixed term). 2. Further details of the post are attached, including a job description and person specification. 3. Salary Grade 6, £29,24 per annum. 4. […]

The Center for the Study of Complex Systems (CSCS) at the University of Michigan invites applications for a tenure-track position of Assistant Professor of Complex Systems. The appointment will begin September 1, 2014. This is a university year appointment. Information about the Center can be found here: www.cscs.umich.edu. Required Qualifications Candidates must have a demonstrated interest in complex systems, broadly construed, with a doctoral degree in a related field such as computer […]

School of Psychology, University of Sussex 3.5 year EPSRC PhD studentship available for September 2013 Project title: Physical crowds and psychological crowds: Applying self-categorization theory to computer simulation of intergroup events Project supervisors: Dr John Drury and Dr Andy Philippides This project will examine the behaviour of different psychological crowds within the same physical crowd. It will apply concepts from social psychology to crowd modelling, using a combination of […]

Assistant Professor in Marine Economics and Policy The University of Maine invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Marine Economics and Policy, a nine-month (academic year) tenure track position with teaching (50%) and research (50%) responsibilities. The position is a joint (50/50) appointment between the Schools of Economics and Marine Sciences. Responsibilities: Develop a rigorous research program in marine economics and policy; actively engage in educating and […]

Details on the labexMER web site The Lab-STICC (CNRS UMR 6285) is seeking an enthusiastic PhD candidate with a strong scientific knowledge background. The Computer Science thesis aims at modeling/simulating the biological pump in the mesopelagic domain : it intricates models from marine biology, biophysics and geophysics. The biological pump is the set of processes that generate and transport the […]