Jobs & Appointments

The Imperial Centre for Energy Policy and Technology (ICEPT) and the Centre for Process Systems Engineering (CPSE) at Imperial College London are looking for candidates for the position of Research Associate to join us in a project on the implementation of an agent-based model of bioenergy stakeholders (e.g. farmers, biorefinery operators, service providers) which will be used to study policies that can stimulate the development of a bioenergy value chain in the UK. Details of the job, […]

The Computational Epidemiology Laboratory seeks an exceptional postdoctoral researcher with interdisciplinary interests and a passion for using complex systems models (e.g., agent-based, microsimulation, system dynamics) to improve human health and well-being. The current focus of the group is on developing complex systems models in the following areas: 1. Food access, food insecurity and health 2. Pediatric asthma healthcare utilization 3. Predicting asthma attacks due to multipollutant […]

Postdoctoral Fellow in Mountain Social-Ecological Systems Modeling Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory and Department of Ecosystem Science & Sustainability at Colorado State University The Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory and Department of Ecosystem Science & Sustainability at Colorado State University seek candidates for a postdoctoral fellow position for synthesis and modeling of mountain social-ecological systems as part of a NSF-funded research coordination network (RCN). […]

The postdoctoral fellow will work collaboratively with the partners and stakeholders, and the International Centre for Infectious Diseases involved in research projects. Applicants should have significant experience in health economics, strategy evaluation, policy analysis, modelling and simulations for vaccine-preventable diseases, and statistical analysis. The successful candidate will have excellent English language communication skills (both written and verbal), with prior experience […]

ETH Zurich is one of the leading universities in the world with a strong focus on science and engineering. In 2014 the Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research-Supply of Electricity (SCCER-SoE) was established to conduct fundamental research and develop innovative solutions in the domains of deep geothermal and hydro power. Within SCCER-SoE, the Risk Governance team comprises engineers, natural and social scientists working jointly on a holistic risk governance framework for […]

Detailed ad: http://abm-lab.yorku.ca/files/PDF2014.pdf As part of the strategic direction for expansion of the research areas at the Agent-Based Modelling Laboratory (ABM-Lab) at York University, applications are invited for two postdoctoral positions in Disease Modelling for Understanding Health Benefits and Cost Effectiveness. Successful candidates will be expected to play a major role in trans-disciplinary projects applying modelling tools and simulation techniques, data analysis […]

At the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ in Leipzig, Germany (Department of Ecological Modelling) the Junior Research Group “”POLISES - Global food security policies and their social-ecological side effects in regions prone to global change” () funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research is established. In this group the following vacancy is offered at the nearest possible date: ## PhD Position (m/f) ## Subject: Social-ecological impacts of financial risk- […]

Modelling Household Energy Demand Salary: up to £37,394 The WholeSEM project is a four-year, £5.7 million collaboration between the Universities of Surrey and Cambridge, UCL and Imperial College funded by EPSRC to develop, integrate and apply models of future energy supply and demand in collaboration with stakeholders in academia, government and industry in the UK and internationally. For further information about the consortium please visit . The work at Surrey focuses on understanding […]

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 […]

Funding is available for one post-doctoral fellowship with the Canadian Network for Aquatic Ecosystem Services (CNAES). The fellowship is based out of Western University in London, Ontario in collaboration with Alberta Innovates in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The project will involve scenario analysis to develop alternative futures of forest aquatic ecosystem services and assess the economic and ecological risks of policy options under alternative futures. The successful candidate will be […]