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 […]

PhD student position on Agent-Based Computational Economics A three-year PhD student position on Agent-based Computational Economics, starting January 1st 2014, is available at the Department of Mechanical, Energetics, Management and Transport Englineering of the University of Genova, Italy. Research will be focused on agent-based macroeconomics and financial stability issues within the framework of a new EU funded three-year project starting on October 1st, 2013. The EU project aims to […]

School of Psychology, University of Sussex 3.5 year EPSRC PhD studentship available for September 2013 Project title: Physical crowds and psychological crowds: Applying self-categorization theory to computer simulation of intergroup events Project supervisors: Dr John Drury and Dr Andy Philippides This project will examine the behaviour of different psychological crowds within the same physical crowd. It will apply concepts from social psychology to crowd modelling, using a combination of […]

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 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 […]

The Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, research group „Future Energy and Mobility Structures“, is currently looking for a Research fellow on a part-time basis for a doctoral position initially limited to 3 years in the research field „Agent-based modelling of measures increasing the energy efficiency of buildings“ - Reference number 051/13/1 - The position of a research fellow, which is envisaged as a part-time job (19,92 hours per week) and will be remunerated […]