Jobs & Appointments

Exciting opportunity to join a world-class team in a fast paced start up to develop a tool to support sustainable decision making in agricultural systems. The primary responsibility will be the development of a quantitative framework that integrates the scientific understanding of sustainable agricultural practices from a range of economic and environmental perspectives.

PhD position available – University College Cork (UCC)

Applications are invited for a doctoral studentship in computer science to be located at University College Cork as part of the SMARTeBuses project funded by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland Research RD&D Programme.

The project is classified as Non-economic Public Good Research under the EU State Aid regulations. The project will exploit, combine and improve cutting-edge AI technologies (Constraint Programming, Mixed Intege[…]

Institution: Purdue University, Department of Forestry and Natural Resources
Location: West Lafayette, IN

Job Category: Graduate Assistantship

Salary: Year-round funding (full tuition waiver and salary of ~$24,005/year is available as a Graduate Research Assistant (PhD level) in the Forestry and Natural Resources Department at Purdue University. Additional funding is available to support research and to attend conferences and training opportunities.

Pertinent Websites: https://www.purdue[…]

We are looking for an enthusiastic Post-Doctoral researcher with a background in computer simulation, agent-based modelling, farmer behavioural modelling or microsimulation to join the BESTMAP team in the University of Leeds and contribute to the development of individual-farm agent-based modelling on farmer decision making, in dealing with challenges in land-use intensification, sustainable agriculture and climate change.

Brunel University London (BUL) is recruiting to EPSRC Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) PhD studentships effective 1 October 2020. Applications are invited for the following specific project entitled “Many Objective Optimisation for Simulation in Manufacturing”. Successful applicants will receive an annual stipend (bursary) of £17,285 plus payment of their full-time home tuition fees for a period of 36 months (3 years). Applicants must be eligible for home tuition fees either through nat[…]

PRAEDOC

Duration of employment: 4 year/s

Extent of Employment: 30 hours/week

Job Description:
Participation in research, teaching and administration:
- Participation in research projects/ scientific studies in the field of Computational Communication Science
- Participation in publications/ academic articles/ presentations
- We expect the successful candidate to sign a doctoral thesis agreement within 12-18 months
- Participation in teaching and independent teaching of courses as define[…]

The PhD project will focus on modeling fish migration along rivers. The main objectives are to determine the effects of artificial light at night on fish migration, and to identify criteria for artificial sustainable light management. The ideal candidate has a solid understanding of ecological concepts, combining experience in spatial explicit approaches in environmental modelling (e.g. agent-based models) with an interest in confronting ecological theory and models with experimental data.

NEW 4-YEAR PHD PROGRAM IN MODELING AND ENGINEERING RISK AND COMPLEXITY AT THE
NEW SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED STUDIES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II

From climate change and sustainability to seismic engineering and Industry 4.0, all the crucial challenges facing mankind today require the ability to understand and engineer ever growing reliable interdependent, complex and interconnected systems and infrastructures.

The Call for Applications for the new 4 year PhD Program in Modeling an[…]

The objective of this thesis is to investigate the uncertain constraints of blockchain systems and to propose a deep reinforcement learning decision-making approach based on utility and rewards for both user and block creator agents.

The thesis will also contribute to develop and extend the agent-based simulation platform Multi-Agent eXperimenter (MAX) of LICIA.

We are looking for a PhD candidate to conduct a project on the interface of sociology / computational modelling and philosophy. The project is titled “Reconciling epistemic and demographic divers[…]