Jobs & Appointments

Post-doc or Ph.D. student: machine learning applied to multi-agent social-ecological systems We are looking for a post-doc or Ph.D. student interested in the application of machine learning, specifically learning classifier systems, to multi-agent social-ecological systems. Experience with the design and implementation of machine learning and/or multi-agent systems and some knowledge of economics, anthropology or marine ecology is desirable but not necessary. The post-doc or Ph.D. student […]

CABDyN Complexity Centre Grade 8 (£36,715 - £43,840 with discretionary range to £47,905) Fixed term post for two and a half years We are seeking to recruit a Senior Research Fellow in Complex Networks who will join the research team based at the CABDyN Complexity Centre at the University of Oxford. Further information on CABDyN and the full further particulars for the post are available here . The advertised post is funded through one of the Centre’s new projects: *‘ICTeCollective Project […]

San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) Job Opening: Economic/Demographic Research Analyst http://www.sandag.org/index.asp?jobid=226&fuseaction=jobs.detail Close Date: 3/12/10 With its suite of highly-sophisticated tools, including the Demographic and Economic Forecasting Model (DEFM), the Interregional Commute Model (IRCM), the Urban Development Model (UDM), TransCAD, and ESRI’s Geographic Information Systems (GIS), the Regional Models team supports numerous research and planning […]

One funded Marie Curie PhD Fellowship position is being offered by the Innovation Research Unit, University College Dublin, for commencement in September 2010. The project is entitled ‘The Management of Emergent Technologies for Economic Impact’. Please read the attached for further information regarding the project, application process and deadlines.

The University of Maine is launching a national search for Postdoctoral Sustainability Science Fellows. The successful candidates will join a new Sustainability Solutions Initiative (SSI) funded by a 5‐year, $20 million NSF EPSCoR grant. SSI includes a team of 30 faculty from a range of disciplines and multiple academic institutions statewide. SSI’s transformative research program integrates coupled natural and human systems modeling, stakeholder engagement, and solutions‐oriented research […]

The School of Economics (SOE) and the Senator George J. Mitchell Center at the University of Maine invite applications from social scientists for a tenure-track faculty position in SOE at the assistant or associate professor level. The successful candidate will join a new Sustainability Solutions Initiative (SSI) funded by a 5-year, $20 million NSF EPSCoR grant. The position is one of four new hires supported by SSI, an innovative program in sustainability science. The successful candidate […]

The School of Marine Sciences at the University of Maine is seeking a to enroll a student as early as May or June 2010 in the dual masters degree in marine science and policy. The student will study and work on a strongly interdisciplinary research project funded by the Coupled Natural and Human Systems program within NSF. A competitive stipend, tuition, health and student fees will be provided for three years. The project combines the work of social, biological and computer scientists and […]

A Land Use Change Modeller is required for an interdisciplinary team working in a new EU Framework 7 project (www.redd-alert.eu) aimed at evaluating bottom-up approaches to reduce net global greenhouse gas emissions through avoided deforestation in the tropics. The post will focus on evaluating mechanisms for ensuring national-level benefits are distributed equitably, effectively and sustainably to stakeholders at a range of levels. You will possess a PhD in a relevant subject, together […]

Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Cologne, Germany PhD Position in Social and Cultural Anthropology We offer a PhD position (salary scale E13/2) for three years (January 2010 – December 2012) as part of the sub project “Anthropological Models for a Reconstruction of the First African Frontier” in the framework of the new Collaborative Research Centre (CRC)”Our way to Europe”. The CRC is funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, […]

As a Research Associate in the Centre for the study of Environmental Change and Sustainability (CECS) you will plan and undertake research on the development of Agent-Based models (ABM) of land use change in urban and rural environments. You will contribute to the conceptual design and implementation of new models that seek to integrate biophysical and human processes of environmental change. The research will contribute to a number of different European Commission funded projects within a […]