Jobs & Appointments

I am seeking one to two Ph.D. students interested in modeling socioecological systems to take part in an NSF-funded interdisciplinary project on participatory-ensemble modeling to study the multiscale social and behavioral dynamics of food security. The project summary can be found here: http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1416730. The Ph.D. students will be responsible for the development of agent-based models to simulate the spatial and temporal variability of food access in […]

Job Posting on University of Delaware web site: https://wahrprd.nss.udel.edu:4450/psp/RESUME/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_CE.GBL?Page=HRS_CE_JOB_DTL&Action=A&JobOpeningId=102460&SiteId=900&PostingSeq=1 Job Title: Associate Professor - Computational Social Science Job ID: 102460 Location: Newark, Delaware The University of Delaware’s College of Arts and Sciences has identified computational social science as a strategic initiative. The emergence of large datasets and powerful computing […]

Postdoctoral Position: Cross-scalar adaptation to socio-hydrological risks in the Mexico City Basin The Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University Job Description The Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University is seeking a postdoctoral fellow to take a leadership role in the development of an agent-based model for an innovative NSF-funded project on urbanization, climate change adaptation and social-hydrological […]

At the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ in Leipzig, Germany (Department of Ecological Modelling) the Junior Research Group “”POLISES - Global food security policies and their social-ecological side effects in regions prone to global change” () funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research is established. In this group the following vacancy is offered at the nearest possible date: ## PhD Position (m/f) ## Subject: Social-ecological impacts of financial risk- […]

Modelling Household Energy Demand Salary: up to £37,394 The WholeSEM project is a four-year, £5.7 million collaboration between the Universities of Surrey and Cambridge, UCL and Imperial College funded by EPSRC to develop, integrate and apply models of future energy supply and demand in collaboration with stakeholders in academia, government and industry in the UK and internationally. For further information about the consortium please visit . The work at Surrey focuses on understanding […]

http://cfusion.sph.emory.edu/PHEC/index.cfm?action=job_Details&JobID=46466 NYU - Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL CHANGE Post-doctoral position: Agent-based modeling of alcohol regulations DESCRIPTION: This 12 month full-time post- doctoral position would entail working with the project PIs, James Macinko (NYU Public Health) and Maurizio Porfiri (NYU Poly/Engineering),and joining a multidisciplinary research team […]

The successful candidate will work in one or more of the following areas: text analysis and text mining, social data collection, social and spatial analysis, and/or the development of social-ecological models. The successful candidate will work as a member of a team of interdisciplinary scientists in support of a collaborative NSF-funded study involving researchers at University of Idaho, University of Chicago, University College London, and University of New Hampshire. The study attempts […]

A one year post-doctoral opportunity with the University of Dundee (but located at The James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen) is available to work on the MIRACLE project (http://wici.ca/new/research/digging-into-data-did-research/) funded by the Digging into Data challenge (http://www.diggingintodata.org/). The MIRACLE project focuses on outputs of agent-based models, and aims to create web-based tools enabling practitioners to apply data mining tools and visualisation techniques to the […]

As a part of EPSRC funded Horizon Hub, we have a 9 months fixed term position for a post-doctoral researcher in social network analysis and modelling. The position is based in the Centre for the mathematics of human behaviour (CMoHB, https://www.reading.ac.uk/cmohb/ ), Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Reading and will be focused on analysis and modelling of dynamics and mood on social networks, based on two small human studies and a large online social network […]

More information below, or for full details, and how to apply, see the website. The deadline is 31st March. http://www.lida.leeds.ac.uk/phd.html The University of Leeds is seeking talented and highly motivated doctoral researchers to join the Consumer Data Research Centre (CDRC) which is being established with funding from the Economic and Social Research Council’s (ESRC) Big Data Network. Deadline for applications: 31st March New data relating to both the social and physical world are […]