Jobs & Appointments

The Rowett Institute at the University of Aberdeen are seeking a highly motivated and ambitious research fellow to join a multidisciplinary research team of nutritionists, social scientists, computer modellers, environmental scientists and statisticians to work on a Scottish Government funded project modelling cultural, non-cultural and social influences on dietary choices in the context of healthy, environmentally sustainable diets. More details at […]

We are about to start a 3-year grant funded by the Qatar National Research Fund on modeling the adoption of residential solar photovoltaic systems in collaboration with the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center in Riyadh. The project will develop a decision-support software platform to test policy scenarios aimed at promoting the adoption of residential solar energy systems in Qatar and Saudi Arabia. We are looking for an expert on agent-based modeling with background in […]

Department of Communication - Quantitative Models of Human Communication Apply here: https://recruit.ucdavis.edu/apply/JPF01069 DESCRIPTION Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) or Associate Professor, Quantitative Models of Human Communication. For this position, we seek a scholar with research interests focused on quantitative model building in communication. Human communication is an essential building block in the emergence of complex social systems. Models aimed at understanding and […]

Dear all, the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig is offering a PostDoc position for modelling environmental change and human migration in the tropics. The PostDoc shall design, develop and apply a human decision making model simulating human decisions regarding natural resource use in response to environmental change and human migration. Details regarding the position and the application procedure can be found on the following website: […]

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 […]

An exciting job opportunity to work in large (100+ researchers), transdisciplinary research team. The overall goal of the project is to understand migration in deltas, including the role of climate change, and place this in the context of adaptation choices. We have an open position in the core University of Southampton integrator team for 18 months. The successful applicant has to be comfortable working in the field of both bio-physical and social sciences and who has ABM model […]

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 […]

There are 2 fully funded PhDs being advertised as part of the Europe’s Lost Frontiers project at the University of Bradford, UK. One is specifically focused on computer simulation while the other is mainly seismic mapping, but with an emphasis on using the results within simulations. Deadline is 17th June 2016 with the positions to start in October 2016. Details are available at

A three-year PHD scholarship starting from November 2016 is available at the University of Genova on agent-based computational macroeconomics with a particular focus on validation and calibration. Please, circulate this announcement among possible interested candidates. Interested candidates should contact me as soon as possible. The application deadline is June 10th https://www.studenti.unige.it/postlaurea/dottorati/XXXII/ENG/

Artificial Intelligence Economics Research Center (AI-ECON), Department of Economics, National Chengchi University (Taiwan) invites applications at the post-doctoral level to develop agent-based macroeconomic models (ABMs), geared towards computational policy experiments. The research will be conducted under the direction of Professor Shu-Heng Chen. The candidate is expected to work with a researchers at the lab to design, develop, simulate and analyze agent-based, behavioural […]