Jobs & Appointments

Postdoc opportunity: synthesize literature and data to inform the development of quantitative modelling frameworks to quantify water and biogeochemical fluxes along gradients of land management, across spatial and temporal scales, and under a variety of socio-economic conditions. Case studies will include agricultural systems under alternative irrigation strategies (e.g., rice systems) and soil management (e.g., organic soil amendments).

The DFG-funded Research Training Group RTG 2118 ‘Integrating Biodiversity Research with Movement Ecology in Dynamic Agricultural Landscapes [BioMove]’ (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Florian Jeltsch) at the University of Potsdam (UP), the Freie Universität Berlin (FU), the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW, Berlin), and the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF, Müncheberg) offers several positions:

You will work on a new project, funded by the European Research Council, called Data Assimilation for Agent-Based Models: Applications to Civil Emergencies (DUST). The utilmate aim of the project[…]

There is an opening for a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Manchester as part of a new £8m project “DAMS 2.0: Design and Assessment of resilient and sustainable interventions for water-energy-food-environment Mega Systems”

At the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit at the University of Glasgow we’re now recruiting for a full-time two-year postdoctoral position (£28,098 to £31,604/annum) in agent-based modelling for population health applications. The post holder will work as part of the Complexity in Health Improvement and Neighbourhoods and Communities research programmes within the SPHSU. For further information and an application form, please check the job advert here: […]

See http://www.duncanrobertson.com/2017/11/27/phd-studentship-modelling-dynamic-responses-dynamic-threats-loughborough-university/ I am co-supervising the following PhD project – the application link and further details can be found here: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/research-degrees/funded/modelling-dynamic-responses/ . The closing date is 14 December 2017. Please get in touch if you would like to discuss this opportunity. One of the most challenging issues for policy makers […]

We are offering a 100% PhD researcher position on housings environmental footprint at the Laboratory for Human-Environment Relations in Urban Systems (HERUS), ENAC, at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland. The research focus of HERUS is on transitions of urban systems towards sustainability. HERUS is an interdisciplinary team, consisting of social scientists and natural scientists. We combine social science methods with material and energy flow models, […]

Applicants should have significant practical experience for conducting cost-effectiveness, analyzing data and simulation results, and performing statistical inference. The successful candidate will have excellent English language communication skills (both written and verbal). Previous experience working in an interdisciplinary research environment, and writing scientific articles, would be an asset. The candidate will be responsible for summarising outcomes of the projects for […]

3 year stipend available for a PhD in Computer Modeling (ICT) in Norway. Deadline for applications is 21 August 2018. See here for information: https://www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-stillinger/stilling/140816/phd-research-fellow-in-modelling#.WYBb_tGoUbg.facebook For more information: leron.shults@uia.no