Jobs & Appointments

Kiel University seeks to appoint more women to professorships. The Graduate School “Human Development in Landscapes” at Kiel University (CAU) invites applications for the position of: Professorship (W2) in “Ancient Socio-Environmental Modelling” The appointment is initially for five years with tenure track. The Graduate School (www.uni-kiel.de/landscapes/) is funded in the framework of the German Excellence Initiative and will be transferred into the Johanna Mestorf Academy as a permanent […]

VU University Amsterdam is accepting applications for an exciting postdoc position in the Institute for Environmental Studies. The postdoc will contribute to research within various land change projects within the department with a main objective to develop and test innovative methods for simulating land system changes at regional to global scales in the context of climate and environmental change. The successful candidate has a strong interest to represent human agency in large-scale land […]

School of Psychology, University of Sussex 3.5 year EPSRC PhD studentship available for September 2013 Project title: Physical crowds and psychological crowds: Applying self-categorization theory to computer simulation of intergroup events Project supervisors: Dr John Drury and Dr Andy Philippides This project will examine the behaviour of different psychological crowds within the same physical crowd. It will apply concepts from social psychology to crowd modelling, using a combination of […]

Details on the labexMER web site The Lab-STICC (CNRS UMR 6285) is seeking an enthusiastic PhD candidate with a strong scientific knowledge background. The Computer Science thesis aims at modeling/simulating the biological pump in the mesopelagic domain : it intricates models from marine biology, biophysics and geophysics. The biological pump is the set of processes that generate and transport the […]

The Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, research group „Future Energy and Mobility Structures“, is currently looking for a Research fellow on a part-time basis for a doctoral position initially limited to 3 years in the research field „Agent-based modelling of measures increasing the energy efficiency of buildings“ - Reference number 051/13/1 - The position of a research fellow, which is envisaged as a part-time job (19,92 hours per week) and will be remunerated […]

Centre for Research in Social Simulation University of Surrey, Guildford, UK 2 Research Fellows for the Whole System Energy Modelling Consortium: (a) Agent-based modelling of household energy demand (b) Social practices of energy consumption (Ref: 9385) Posts available from July 2013 Salary: up to £37,382 per annum Two positions are available in the Centre for Research in Social Simulation to work with Professor Nigel Gilbert in the new four-year, £5.7 million WholeSEM (Whole Systems […]

AI-Econ Research Center (www.aiecon.org) is an interdisciplinary research and professional service unit at National Chengchi University, Taiwan. Our aim is to support research and provide policy and strategy analytical services based on agent-based simulation and human experiments to the society. We are looking for a highly enthusiastic and fully devoted expert in experiments to operate and expand the functions of our experimental economics laboratory (EEL, http://eel.nccu.edu.tw/ ). This […]

Postdoctoral Researcher in Land Use Change Modelling Vacancy Ref: : 012323 Closing Date : 02-May-2013 Contact Person : Professor Mark Rounsevell Contact Email : mark.rounsevell@ed.ac.uk We are seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Researcher in the field of Land Use Change Modelling for a period of 2 years. Based within the School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, you will join a team of researchers studying the effects of environmental change on land use at multiple temporal and […]

The College of Nursing at the University of Central Florida is seeking to make an appointment for the position of Florida Hospital Endowed Chair in Nursing Simulation. The holder need not be a registered nurse, but must have an established record of scholarship and experience in healthcare-related simulation. This position reports directly to the Dean. The Florida Hospital Endowed Chair in Nursing Simulation will forge and utilize collaboration opportunities to advance the use of […]

Applications are invited for a 3-year Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) PhD Studentship based at CoDE under the supervision of Professor James Nazroo, Dr Laia Becares, and Dr Nick Shryane. The studentship covers UK/EU tuition fees, an annual tax-free stipend at Research Council rates (£13,590 in 2012/13), plus the Advanced Quantitative Methods supplement (£3,000 per year) for a total of £16,590. Funding will be for three years of full-time study (+3 Scheme), starting in October […]