Jobs & Appointments

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 […]

OCE Post Doctoral Fellow - National Land Use Modelling for Australia · Conduct scientific research with real impact! · Offering outstanding career development and professional support · Join CSIRO, Australia’s premier science and technology research organisation The Position: We are seeking a highly motivated and high achieving individual with a recent PhD in Economics, Geography, Operations Research or a related field with interest in integrated environmental economic modelling for a […]

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 […]

Postdoctoral Researcher in Land Use Change Modelling Vacancy Ref: : 012323 Closing Date : 02-May-2013 Contact Person : Professor Mark Rounsevell Contact Email : [email protected] We are seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Researcher in the field of Land Use Change Modelling for a period of 2 years. Based within the School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, you will join a team of researchers studying the effects of environmental change on land use at multiple temporal and […]

Institutions: The James Hutton Institute (JHI) & Centre for Policy Modelling, Manchester Metropolitan University (CPM) JHI PhD Supervisor: Dr G Polhill, JH Co-Supervisor: Dr A Girmona CPM/MMU PhD Director of Studies: Dr Bruce Edmonds Application Deadline: 15 January 2013 Funding Availability: Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only) Context In a landscape managed by multiple owners varying from homeowners and non-agricultural businesses through to estates and agri- […]

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 […]

I work for Parsons Brinckerhoff’s Systems Analysis Group, which is an international leader in the development of large-scale simulation models of transportation and land-use systems. Our Portland Oregon team is looking to add someone with excellent software development skills to work on state-of-the-art travel demand forecasting and land use models for public agencies around the world. We develop a variety of computer models, with many of the models running across multiple […]

e-Policy is a new project funded by the European Commission under its Framework 7 programme that aims to equip policymakers with integrated models, visualization, simulation and opinion mining techniques that improve the outcomes of complex decision making. The project will involve expertise from computational social science, environmental engineering, optimization, machine learning and visualization. It will use the formation of a regional energy plan in the Emilia Romagna region of Italy […]

PhD student position (m/f)The Department of Computational Landscape Ecology (www.ufz.de/cle) invites applications for1 PhD Student position (m/f)- Code digit 51/2011 –to commence as early as possible. The appointment is limited to 3 years and is subject to final funding approval by the funding agency. The position is part of the project “Energieeffiziente Stadt Delitzsch” (http://uni-leipzig.de/~effstadt/cms/).The candidate is expected to develop an agent-based model on residential […]

Oregon State University, Department of Biological & Ecological Engineering Position: The Department of Biological and Ecological Engineering at Oregon State University (OSU) announces the availability of a full-time position for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to develop coupled human/natural systems models supporting alternative futures assessments. The emphasis of this position is on developing models and associated datasets addressing coupled human/natural systems, including land […]