Jobs & Appointments

The University of Maine has launched the Sustainable Solutions Initiative with a $20 million, five‐year grant from the National Science Foundation’s EPSCOR program (SSI: www.umaine.edu/SustainabilitySolutions). SSI’s mission is to create an integrative research program and strong stakeholder partnerships that generate improved solutions to intersecting ecological, social, and economic challenges in and beyond Maine. SSI is supporting interdisciplinary research of coupled natural‐human […]

The School of Economics (SOE) and the Senator George J. Mitchell Center at the University of Maine invite applications from social scientists for a tenure-track faculty position in SOE at the assistant or associate professor level. The successful candidate will join a new Sustainability Solutions Initiative (SSI) funded by a 5-year, $20 million NSF EPSCoR grant. The position is one of four new hires supported by SSI, an innovative program in sustainability science. The successful candidate […]

I have been accepted to an Interdisciplinary PhD to study Agent Based Modeling for Stock Market Prediction. The studies begin in January 2010. I am seeking a scholarship to pursue my dream of obtaining a PhD in ABM. I have a MBA in Finance and a MSc in Computer Information Systems from Northwestern University (Illinois). I have an impressive committee and an outstanding chairperson. I would appreciate if you could forward any relevant scholarship contacts to me. My e-mail is […]

We are seeking applicants for a research associate or research assistant professor (research track) to join our group of innovative public health researchers in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology at Loyola University Chicago. Up to five years of funding is available to support the position. The research assistant professor position requires a minimum of first authorship of peer-reviewed publications; the research associate position requires potential to contribute to […]

I have an agent-based modeling post-doctoral position to fill at The Ohio State University. I am looking for someone with Java programming experience to work on the Basic Immune Simulator, a model created using RepastJ and described in: http://www.tbiomed.com/content/pdf/1742-4682-4-39.pdf The position will involve conversion of the Basic Immune Simulator to a simulation of interstitial lung disease (pulmonary fibrosis), experimentation, and comparison to histopathological data derived […]

WU - Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria Institute for the Environment and Regional Development Ecological Economics 2 Lectureships in Ecological Economics Submission Deadline: May 13, 2009 Reference number: 129595 Location: Vienna, Austria The Institute for the Environment and Regional Development invites applications for two lecturer / assistant professor positions (fixed-term for 6 years) to begin in the autumn of 2009. We seek candidates with research and teaching […]

Graduate Research Assistantship in Agent-based Land Market Modeling available with Dr. Dawn Parker at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada A graduate assistantship (minimum of three years of funding) is available for a highly qualified student interesting in developing agent-based models of ex-urban residential land markets. The research assistant will be part of SLUCE II project (Spatial Land Use Change and Ecological Effects), funded through the US National Science Foundation’s […]

The School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE) at the University of Michigan is seeking applications from qualified, motivated, prospective PhD students to work on dissertation research related to the SLUCE II project (Spatial Land Use Change and Ecological Effects.) This is a collaborative, interdisciplinary research project involving six faculty members in the area of coupled human-natural systems. The project links agent-based modeling of human behaviors driving land use / land […]