Jobs & Appointments

Seeking researcher with skills in agent-based modelling of agricultural systems and/or networks for a project on traders as connectors and mediators across scales. The position is part of an ERC project that combines empirical research with modelling to identify mechanisms of persistence and change in social-ecological systems. The research involves collaboration with interdisciplinary team of empirical researchers, modellers and philosophers at Stockholm Resilience Centre (www.seslink.org).

The Ethics/Philosophy of Technology Section of Delft University of Technology is looking for a PhD candidate who will develop an agent-based model to simulate responsibility arrangements in resilience policy for climate adaptation. We are looking for someone with strong conceptual skills, for example through a background in philosophy or artificial intelligence, and experience in agent-based modelling or a willingness to acquire agent-based modelling skills.

Vacancy at the Institute of Management Accounting and Simulation, Hamburg University of Technology for a fully funded PhD project. We apply agent-based modeling to address cogntive features of te[…]

SESYNC seeks two Assistant Research Scientists, one with expertise in agent based modeling, and the other with expertise in system dynamical modeling. These are two-year research faculty positions through the University of Maryland. Effort in each will be equally divided between conducting independent synthesis research and contributing to SESYNC’s programs and activities. The incumbents will have freedom and responsibility to design and conduct their own independent research program, […]

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, […]

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 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 […]

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 LABSS, Laboratory on Agent Based Social Simulation, offers a 12-months (renewable in the context of a 3-years project) graduate fellowship position for a social simulator (computer scientist, physicist, or code-savy social scientist - see the full list in the detailed call), in the topic of “simulative and modelistic research on the relevance of social norms and of punishment in legal and illegal systems”, under the scientific responsibility of Dr. Rosaria Conte and Dr. Mario Paolucci. […]

The interdisciplinary research centre REEDS at the UVSQ*, wishes to recruit two persons at post-doctoral or research officer level, for work on a novel interdisciplinary research project to develop a multi-agent model for a Neolithic agrarian society. The project OBRESOC — Un observatoire rétrospectif d’une société archéologique: la trajectoire du néolithique Rubané — is funded by the French national research agency (ANR) and coordinated by Professeur Jean-Pierre BOCQUET-APPEL, Directeur […]