Jobs & Appointments

ETH Zurich establishes a multi-disciplinary research team to work on risk governance-related challenges for deep geothermal energy, CO2 storage and hydropower projects. The new interdisciplinary research team will initially comprise three postdoctoral and/or senior scientists. The successful candidates are expected to participate in a growing cross-disciplinary research program, involving several professorships at ETH, with strong ties to other national and international partner […]

Research Fellow (Postdoc) position is available for 4 years at the School of Computer Engineering (http://www.ntu.edu.sg/SCE), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, starting immediately. You will be conducting research and development in the area of agent-based modeling and simulation. Specifically, it is an industry funded project and you will be working closely together with the team in NTU and a world-wide reputable company. You will be researching, designing and developing […]

Full-time position for 4 years CSTM, University of Twente, the Netherlands Vacancy number 618179 Job description We are seeking a PhD student (4 year terms) to join in a EU-funded project on the development of advanced techno-economic modeling tools for a ‘low carbon’ economy. This is a fully funded PhD position to study nonlinearities and regime-shifts in economic systems when quantifying the impacts of climate change mitigation policies. This involves a development of an economic […]

The Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity (http://csid.asu.edu/) at Arizona State University invites applications for an exciting post-doctoral position in collective action and social networks. This postdoc will conduct research within a NSF funded project (http://csid.asu.edu/tipping-collective-action-social-networks-0). The research is computational and the ideal candidate has training in (agent-based) modeling, network analysis and data mining. Furthermore, the ideal […]

Course on Agent-based Modeling and Simulation The International Advanced Studies in Demography (IDEM) program is currently accepting applications for the upcoming IDEM winter semester 2013/14 at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock, Germany. The IDEM winter program includes an advanced course on Agent-based Modeling and Simulation, see http://tinyurl.com/idem-abm Other IDEM winter courses cover the Demography of Aging across the Tree of Life, Spatial […]

The Chair of Systems Design in ETH Zurich, and the Centre for Research on Direct Democracy in Universität Zürich offer a position for a PhD student working in the project “The Role of Emotional Interactions in the Polarization of Opinions in Participatory Media” funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), starting as soon as possible. This project brings together the fields of social science, computer science, and statistical physics to advance in the understanding of the […]

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 […]

Assistant Professor in Marine Economics and Policy The University of Maine invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Marine Economics and Policy, a nine-month (academic year) tenure track position with teaching (50%) and research (50%) responsibilities. The position is a joint (50/50) appointment between the Schools of Economics and Marine Sciences. Responsibilities: Develop a rigorous research program in marine economics and policy; actively engage in educating and […]