Jobs & Appointments

The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) is recruiting 2-3 highly qualified Post-Docs / Research Scientists to join the newly established Laboratory of Digital and Computational Demography.

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[…]

The University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), offers a fully-funded 4 year PhD position on ABM for urban risk-prone areas: https://www.utwente.nl/en/organization/careers/vacancy/!/phd-candidate-the-effects-of-human-decision-making-on-settling-in-risk-prone-urban-areas/1117217

The Department of Medicine and the Chicago Center for HIV Elimination announces a post-doctoral position at the University of Chicago, focusing on quantitative data sciences and HIV/STI prevention research. The position is under the direct supervision of John Schneider MD, MPH, Aditya Khanna PhD, and in collaboration with other Center faculty (http://hivelimination.uchicago.edu/people/faculty) to support a skilled computational social/health scientist interested in developing a career in […]

I am now accepting applications for a funded 4-year Ph.D. degree program in environmental economics at the University of New Hampshire (UNH). The selected student will conduct research on the economics of managing invasive plants in forests with heterogeneous landownership. The position is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute for Food and Agriculture. Click here for more details on the project. The selected student will complete their Ph.D. in Economics at the […]

The Department of Natural Resources and the Environment at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on an interdisciplinary project focused on the bioeconomics of managing invasive plants in forests with heterogeneous landownership. The project seeks to integrate models of landscape composition, invasive plant distributions, and bioeconomic models to address both basic and applied research questions about optimal invasive […]

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 […]