Jobs & Appointments

The Rowett Institute at the University of Aberdeen are seeking a highly motivated and ambitious research fellow to join a multidisciplinary research team of nutritionists, social scientists, computer modellers, environmental scientists and statisticians to work on a Scottish Government funded project modelling cultural, non-cultural and social influences on dietary choices in the context of healthy, environmentally sustainable diets. More details at […]

Dear all, the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig is offering a PostDoc position for modelling environmental change and human migration in the tropics. The PostDoc shall design, develop and apply a human decision making model simulating human decisions regarding natural resource use in response to environmental change and human migration. Details regarding the position and the application procedure can be found on the following website: […]

The Deparmtne of Environment and Society at Utah State University is seeking highly qualified candidate who are commited to pursuing a PhD focused on understanding human-environmental interactions. More information can be found here: https://sites.google.com/site/jacopobaggio/students ### Social-Ecological Networks and Agent Based Modelling Students should be interested in agent-based modelling (ABM), network analysis, and participatory modelling. The successful candidate will work under […]

The James Hutton Institute welcomes applications to one of three new TB Macaulay fellowships spanning our computational, social and environmental science areas. The fellowship is based at our Aberdeen (UK) site and comes with 3 years funding plus generous start-up costs. This is an exciting three-year Research Fellowship to expand our activities in sustainability science, with particular focus on investigating ways to implement the UN Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs) in Scotland and […]

Artificial Intelligence Economics Research Center (AI-ECON), Department of Economics, National Chengchi University (Taiwan) invites applications at the post-doctoral level to develop agent-based macroeconomic models (ABMs), geared towards computational policy experiments. The research will be conducted under the direction of Professor Shu-Heng Chen. The candidate is expected to work with a researchers at the lab to design, develop, simulate and analyze agent-based, behavioural […]

We seek a quantitative scientist to drive the development of an integrated computer simulation model that uses innovative generalized agent-based representations of coupled humans and natural system components across scales. http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ANG825/research-associate/ This work contributes to a broader project bringing together social and natural scientists from four major countries (Brazil, China, UK, and USA), with influential stakeholder organizations, to form the International […]

A vacancy has arisen in the Complex Systems Research Centre for a senior researcher on the STEPPING UP project, funded by the EPSRC. With experience of complex systems research methods and in particular agent based modelling tools, you will develop a UK model representing the Water Energy Food Nexus and showing its impact on the environment, economy and society. Working closely with the STEPPING UP project team, located from Exeter to Dundee, and Surrey to Glasgow, you will have […]

We invite applications for a Postdoctoral Research Assistant post, funded by EPSRC, to work on a project, MISTRAL, led by Professor Jim Hall FREng at the University of Oxford, in collaboration with Professor J. Doyne Farmer and the INET research team. The successful candidate will be based in the Institute for New Economic Thinking. This is a 36 month fixed term position and is available for an immediate start. The goal of INET’s role in MISTRAL is to develop agent-based modelling in […]

We experience increasing interest in our services related to agent based modeling. Therefore our Ecology and Environment Department is seeking an enthusiastic and talented colleague with a background in aquatic ecology and ecological modelling to strengthen our competencies in agent based modeling. The position is based in our office in Hørsholm, Denmark. We undertake consultancy and research projects applying and developing agent based models for a variety of questions. This involves the […]

There are the following opportunities for phd Scholarships at the CPM in Manchester on the following topics: Integrating Data Mining and Agent-based simulation – applied to Manchester “Troubled Family” data Modelling the Dynamics of Town Centre Change This is a scholarship competition, so the positions will only give to the best students applying (regardless of the subject you apply for). For the process and conditions see Deadline 9am GMT 21st March 2016.