Jobs & Appointments

Dear Colleagues, Please see below the official ad for postdoctoral position in the Dispute Resolution Research Center (DRRC) at the Kellogg School of Management. We plan to hire two postdoctoral fellows for a position slated to begin in August or September, 2017. The deadline for applications is Tuesday, January 31, 2017. Postdocs will have the opportunity to collaborate with faculty throughout the Northwestern community. Postdocs will also have the freedom to pursue their own independent […]

two 2- year postdoc or researcher positions are available at the Stockholm Resilience Centre for modeling poverty traps and cross-scale interactions in social-ecological systems. We are seeking candidates with backgrounds in dynamical systems theory, complexity theory or related fields and interest in the dynamics of social-ecological systems, particularly in the context of natural resource management in fisheries and agriculture. For details, please see […]

The Helmholtz Association is providing long-term investment for the establishment of a new Research Group on Land Use Change at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology’s Campus Alpin (IMK-IFU) located in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (). This Group aims to advance knowledge of the causes and consequences of change in socio-ecological systems from local to global scales by: a) understanding the fundamental principles that underpin the interactions between people and their environment and encoding these […]

At the Helmholtz Centre of Environmental Research UFZ Leipzig, Germany, a new research project will be launched with funds from the German Research Foundation: SEEMI (Social-Ecological Effects of Microinsurance). It focuses on microinsurance, i.e. insurance products that are specifically targeted at low-income people in developing countries, and its potential adverse effects. Case studies include drought insurance in Kenya and Ethiopia and health insurance in Cambodia. The main research […]

Empirical PhD The empirical PhD candidate will focus on the use of the RoboFalcons for understanding predator-flock interactions. The RoboFalcons provide a unique opportunity to study predator-prey interactions in real time through a camera on the back of a RoboFalcon that films the prey. While investigating RoboFalcons during attack of bird flocks at airbases, the empirical- PhD candidate will: - analyze empirical data of collective escapes related to attacks by RoboFalcons on flocks at […]

The Center for Resilient Communities at the University of Idaho (Moscow, ID) invites applications for a post-doctoral scientist for interdisciplinary research related to social-ecological systems modeling and agent-based modeling of food-energy-water systems. The successful candidate will work as part of an interdisciplinary team of social and environmental scientists, engineers, and stakeholders to develop innovative solutions to integrated food, energy, and water systems interactions. […]

The project will be carried out at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany and includes a 3-months research visit at the James Cook University, Australia Supervision by Volker Grimm, Ralf Seppelt, Graeme Cummings, Kathleen Hermans. Details: Deadline for application: 31 October 2016 Contact: Volker Grimm, Leipzig

Two five-year positions supported by the National Science Foundation and The Ohio State University for an interdisciplinary research project that examines the environmental conditions that lead to human territorial behavior in pastoral ecosystems as well as how territoriality shapes the environment. Based in the Dhufar highlands of Southern Oman, the project will provide new insights into whether the dynamics of woodland-grassland-woodland cycling are coupled with pulses in human […]

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 […]