Jobs & Appointments

Open Position at ETH Zurich, in the Team of Prof. Dirk Helbing SOMS (www.soms.ethz.ch) hosts a young, multidisciplinary, diverse international research team, investigating techno-socio-economic systems from the point of view of complexity science, with a particular focus on social cooperation, norms, conflict, and collective behavior, combining the following methods: stochastic mathematical modeling, multi-agent simulation (spatial evolutionary games), behavioral lab and web experiments, […]

The department of Information and Computing Sciences form the Utrecht University offers a two year postdoc position in the new European project SEMIRA that is part of the European ComplexityNET framework. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Project description ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SEMIRA is a European funded project, locally administered through the Dutch research Council NWO. The […]

The Institute of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences in the Tropics and Subtropics – Chair of Land Use Economics searches for a highly qualified candidate at post-doctoral level. The position will focus on agent-based modeling of agricultural land use with special consideration of learning, group decisions and collective action. The candidate will contribute to the joint research efforts of meteorologists, soil scientists, agronomists and agricultural economists at Universität […]

Post-Doctoral Research Opportunity Agent-Based Models for Sustainable Biofuel Supply Chain Design Research Participation Program U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and Development National Risk Management Research Laboratory Cincinnati, Ohio USA EPA-ORD/NRMRL-STD-2010-04 Project Description: A postdoctoral research project is available at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) National Risk Management Research Laboratory (NRMRL) in Cincinnati, Ohio. A current […]

The Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) of VU University Amsterdam invites applications for: Postdoc Global Land Use Modelling f/m For 1.0 fte Vacancy number: 1.2010.00122 The applicant will be based in the Department of Spatial Analysis and Decision Support at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM). This department is an international research group of about thirty researchers, faculty members and PhD students. The department has a leading role in spatial analysis of complex […]

The Rutgers Center for Green Building (rcgb.rutgers.edu) seeks a postdoctoral fellow with interests and experience in computer simulation modeling, especially using agent-based modeling approaches. The postdoctoral fellow will be expected to take part in developing models of the interactions between building systems and building occupants, producing associated peer reviewed publications, and contributing to the management and execution of the Center’s current projects. Funding comes from […]

The department of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University has an open post-doctoral fellowship position in the areas of computational modeling, complexity, and social systems. The fellowship is for one year, with the possibility of renewal, and has a limited teaching load. The department is interdisciplinary, including the fields of economics, engineering, history, neuroscience, political science, and psychology. It has particular research strengths in behavioral […]

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 post-doctoral project is part of the European integrated project SPICOSA (Science and Policy Integration for COastal Assessment System- http://www.spicosa.eu/ ) applying a system approach framework in order to carry out assessment methodologies through system dynamics modelling, regarding a set of coastal zone issues towards their integrated management. One of the challenges for a system approach applied to coastal zone is to combine and integrate processes and components with […]

A six month post-doctoral fellowship starting as soon as possible in 2009 is offered at Telecom-Bretagne as a part of a project on “multi-agent systems and cognitive finance”. The general topic is on market simulations and rationality in financial markets. The project is part of a larger one which aims at developing a multi-agent platform. It is a joint project between TELECOM-Bretagne, department LUSSI and the university of Lille, CISCo and is sponsored by the INSTITUT TELECOM. Candidates […]