Jobs & Appointments

We invite applications for a Postdoctoral Research Assistant post, funded by EPSRC, to work on a project, MISTRAL, led by Professor Jim Hall FREng at the University of Oxford, in collaboration with Professor J. Doyne Farmer and the INET research team. The successful candidate will be based in the Institute for New Economic Thinking. This is a 36 month fixed term position and is available for an immediate start. The goal of INET’s role in MISTRAL is to develop agent-based modelling in […]

Applicants must be within 3 years of having completed their PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a closely related discipline. The successful candidate will have excellent English language communication skills (both written and verbal), with prior experience of writing scientific or technical articles. The successful candidate must possess a working knowledge of statistics and statistical methods. Applicants should have experience developing computational […]

This is a PhD position available at MAPIX technologies, UK & Utrecht University, The Netherlands, through the EU European Training Network SAF21. The candidate should have an MSc in Computational Linguistics, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Information Science, or Computer Science. Research domain: To uncover the potential wealth within unstructured and semi-structured textual data relevant to the multi-stakeholder fisheries market, this PhD research topic investigates the […]

1. Uses a high degree of concentration to plan, develop, build, test, validate and operate multiscale agent-based simulation models for a variety of nonlinear, time-based problems within ALSAC, drawing on a current inventory of predictive models as well as exploratory work. Multiscale agent-based simulation models for strategic and/or tactical applications in Java or C++ produce system-level financial and other outputs (metrics, forecasts) based on (a) consumer econometrics, algorithms, […]

Associate professorship in Computational Methods and Complex Systems at the Ca Foscari University of Venice: The successful candidate will have a strong record in research and teaching with proven expertise / exposure in one or more of the following areas: • computational economics/finance • risk mitigation/management • networks and graph theory applied to the analysis of social and economic systems. Candidates with strong quantitative background in mathematics, engineering, computer […]

The Laboratory of Urban Complexity and Sustainability (LUCAS) at the University of Nottingham has advertised a number of Ph.D opportunities for outstanding students. The following might be of interest: - PhD Studentship in Computer Modelling (Ref: ENG884) - PhD Studentship in Computer Modelling – Social Modelling (Ref: ENG886) This is an exciting opportunity to join LUCAS, to contribute to the research programme supported by the prestigious Leverhulme Research Programme Grant “Sustaining […]

Dear all, The Potsdam University of Applied Sciences, Germany, Institute for Urban Futures is seeking a predoctoral researcher in a two-year project in the field of „computational social psychology“, starting in October 2015. The Institute for Urban Futures is a recently founded interdisciplinary research institute studying strategies of sustainable urban transformations by combining research approaches from social and computational sciences, urban planning, and information visualization. […]

We are seeking a Postdoctoral Research Assistant (PDRA) for a new interdisciplinary project to build an agent-based model (ABM) to represent the extraction of fish by fishing vessels in open ocean fisheries and the associated effects on ocean ecological systems. The goal of this effort will be to identify pragmatic fisheries management strategies tailored both to the complexity of the ocean ecosystem, and the limitations of the relevant social, economic and regulatory systems. The PDRA […]

CLIMATE CHANGE AND REGIME SHIFTS IN FLOOD-PRONE URBAN AREAS: AN AGENT-BASED APPROACH Background: Coupled socio-ecological systems (SES) are known to experience regime shifts. By this we mean fast and usually irreversible changes in systems, like the ones that we observe when ecosystems collapse due to overexploitation, or when economy cannot recover after natural disasters (floods, droughts, etc.), or when societies undergo dramatic changes as in resource-driven conflicts. The topic is of […]

PhD-candidate MODELLING COMBINATIONS OF STRATEGIES FOR HIV PREVENTION at the National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands Job number: AT I&V-EPI-273/OIO-04 The project In the Netherlands, the majority of new HIV diagnoses occurs among men who have sex with men (MSM). Despite the availability of successful treatment for HIV infection and the employment of numerous interventions, the risk of HIV transmission remains high among MSM. Recent efforts […]