Jobs & Appointments

Fully Funded PhD Studentship – Department of Sociology, University of Leicester The Department of Sociology is seeking applicants for a 3 year full-time funded studentship (covering fees and stipend) leading to a PhD. The studentship is for full-time study only and the successful applicant will be expected to commence their studies in September 2012 or as soon as possible thereafter. UK/EU Applicants only. Research Areas: We are particularly interested in applicants who wish to work in the […]

The PhD Studentship is fully funded for UK/EU applicants, and is offered by the Systems Centre, University of Bristol. The project will address the need for systematic research in the area of complex systems models design, with a specific aim to improve the accuracy of disease-spreading models, by incorporating recently discovered real-world human mobility patterns. State of the art disease-spreading models rest on the assumptions that populations are well mixed and homogeneous. However, […]

The projects will be conducted in the Centre for Spatial Analysis and Policy (CSAP) which is a leading research cluster for spatial analysis and agent-based modelling. The research council deadline for applications is in early February, so if you are interested please get in contact soon so that we have time to help with the application. For more information, please contact myself (n.malleson06@leeds.ac.uk), Andrew Evans (A.J.Evans@leeds.ac.uk) or Alison Heppenstall […]

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position in mathematical epidemiology (infectious disease modelling) at the University of Toronto. The successful candidate will be expected to play a major role in a multi-investigator, multi-institutional project supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) regarding strategies for protecting vulnerable Canadian populations from emerging infectious diseases. The research will use agent-based models to address a range of […]

The Center for the Study of Complex Systems (cscs.umich.edu), in collaboration with the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health (www.sph.umich.edu/cseph), is seeking applicants for a Research Computer Specialist for a computational modeling and analysis position as part of the newly formed Network on Inequality, Complexity and Health program (www.sitemaker.umich.edu/nich), an interdisciplinary group of researchers at multiple Universities who together will establish the […]

POSTDOCTORAL POSITION (Nov 2010 – Oct 2011) Looking for a SOCIAL SCIENTIST WITH SOCIAL SIMULATION BACKGROUND, INTERESTED IN SUPPORTING AND RESEARCHING PARTICIPATORY DEVELOPMENT OF ROLE PLAYING GAMES AND COMPANION MODELS. The Research Institution El Colegio de la Frontera Sur is a non-Profit, government funded, Mexican academic institution with 5 campuses on the southern border of Mexico. It integrates long-term research, Masters/PhD teaching, and participatory outreach through a host of […]

Postdoctoral position Ref:GAMA10 Multi-­scale agent-­based modeling - Contribution to the GAMA platform Work context IFI (www.ifi.auf.org) is an Institute of the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) created in 1993. The Institute is located in Hanoï (Vietnam) and provides a Master course in Computer Science. Since 2008, the IFI research laboratory named MSI « Modélisation etSimulation Informatique / Modeling and Computer Simulation » is included in an IRD International Research […]

The School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan seeks candidates, preferably with postdoctoral experience, for a full-time, nine-month tenure track assistant professor position. The successful candidate will establish a strong research and teaching program in the arena of coupled human and natural systems, with an emphasis on how Africa’s most valuable natural resources are being used, managed, monitored, and marketed. Understanding the dynamic coupling of […]

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 […]

Two Four-Year Research Fellow Posts in Complex Social Systems Simulation http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AAZ394/research-fellows-complex-systems-simulation-two-posts/ EPSRC Care Life Cycle Research Programme University of Southampton - School of Social Sciences £27,319 to £31,671 per annum The University of Southampton has recently been awarded over £3million by the EPSRC under its ‘Complexity Science in the Real World’ initiative to carry out research on the ‘Care Life Cycle: Responding to the […]