Jobs & Appointments

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 […]

Details on the labexMER web site The Lab-STICC (CNRS UMR 6285) is seeking an enthusiastic PhD candidate with a strong scientific knowledge background. The Computer Science thesis aims at modeling/simulating the biological pump in the mesopelagic domain : it intricates models from marine biology, biophysics and geophysics. The biological pump is the set of processes that generate and transport the […]

The Department of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University has an open post-doctoral fellowship position in the areas of computational modeling, complexity, and social systems. The fellowship is for one year, with the possibility of an additional year renewal, and has a limited teaching load. The Department is interdisciplinary, including the fields of economics, engineering, history, neuroscience, political science, and psychology. It has particular research strengths in […]

The NetLogo team at Northwestern University (near Chicago) is hiring a full-time developer. This might interest you if you want to: * work with researchers at a university * help the agent-based modeling community * make things for kids, teachers, and scientists * write Scala and CoffeeScript * hack on compilers and interpreters * do functional programming * use the Play framework * write open source software * do all your work on GitHub (https://github.com/NetLogo) details at […]

AVAILABLE POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE POSITION NETWORK MODELING OF HOUSEHOLD SOLAR ENERGY ADOPTION UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA Dr. Adam Henry, Assistant Professor in the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona, will be hiring a postdoctoral research associate to work on a project funded by the Department of Energy to apply computational, agent-based network models to understand the adoption of residential solar energy in major U.S. solar markets. Applicants should […]