Jobs & Appointments

We are seeking a Post Doctoral Researcher to join an international project on the development of methods for analysis and visualization of ‘big data’ from computational agent-based models (ABMs) of coupled human-natural systems. This vacancy is part of a multidisciplinary multinational MIRACLE project (MIning Relationships Among variables in large datasets from CompLEx systems). MIRACLE is a joint project between the Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity at the Arizona State University […]

Post-doctoral Opportunity- Land Change Modeling and Coupled Natural-Human Systems - Purdue University The Human-Environment Modeling and Analysis Laboratory (www.human-environment.org) in the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources at Purdue University invites applications for an exciting post-doctoral position in land change modeling and coupled natural-human systems. The incumbent will conduct research on several high profile NSF, USGS, NOAA, USDA and EPA funded projects that […]

Postdoctoral Researcher in Land Use Change Modelling Vacancy Ref: : 012323 Closing Date : 02-May-2013 Contact Person : Professor Mark Rounsevell Contact Email : mark.rounsevell@ed.ac.uk We are seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Researcher in the field of Land Use Change Modelling for a period of 2 years. Based within the School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, you will join a team of researchers studying the effects of environmental change on land use at multiple temporal and […]

UCL Department / Division Institute of Archaeology Grade 7 Hours Full Time Salary (inclusive of London allowance) £33,826 per annum Duties and Responsibilities Since 2010 Professor Stephen Shennan, Director of the Institute of Archaeology, has been running a 4-year project entitled ‘Cultural Evolution of Neolithic Europe’, funded by the European Research Council, which has been applying cultural evolutionary approaches to the study of prehistory. The aim of the project is to address […]

The PhD position is part of the project “Energieeffiziente Stadt Delitzsch” (http://uni-leipzig.de/~effstadt/cms/) and located at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ in Leipzig, Germany. The PhD candidate is expected to acquire and analyse data of spatial patterns of population dynamics and urban form in different European cities and develop conceptual agent-based models on residential mobility. These models help to explain observed patterns in different types of cities […]

The Resilience and Adaptive Management Group (http://ram.uaa.alaska.edu/) at the University of Alaska Anchorage invites applications for a Postdoctoral Scientist in the area of computational social science and social-ecological systems. The position is for two years, with the likelihood of an additional year renewal. The successful candidate will work in one or more of the following areas: text analysis and text mining, social data collection, social and spatial analysis, and/or the […]

Post-doctoral researcher in Formalization and Simulation of Social Dynamics Place: GSADI - Analytical Sociology and Institutional Design Group, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), http://gsadi.uab.cat. Barcelona, SPAIN Requirements: Candidates should hold a PhD and have prior training in Sociology or business/social sciences profile, combined with formal and computational skills. Candidates must be willing to relocate to Barcelona area for three years (2012-2014). Familiarity with […]

The School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE) at the University of Michigan is seeking for a motivated PhD student to work on a National Science Foundation funded research project focusing on understanding and modeling the dynamics of bioenergy supply chain and its environmental implications using life cycle analysis, GIS, and agent-based modeling. The project will investigate how agents in the bioenergy supply chain are interacting with each other and are responding to market and […]

Postdoctoral Scientist Position The Resilience and Adaptive Management Group (http://ram.uaa.alaska.edu/) at the University of Alaska Anchorage invites applications for a Post Doctoral Fellow for interdisciplinary research related to spatial analysis, modeling, and visualization of social-ecological systems. The successful candidate will work with social and environmental scientists in analyzing and visualizing social and ecological relationships as part of an NSF-funded study on water and […]

PhD student position (m/f)The Department of Computational Landscape Ecology (www.ufz.de/cle) invites applications for1 PhD Student position (m/f)- Code digit 51/2011 –to commence as early as possible. The appointment is limited to 3 years and is subject to final funding approval by the funding agency. The position is part of the project “Energieeffiziente Stadt Delitzsch” (http://uni-leipzig.de/~effstadt/cms/).The candidate is expected to develop an agent-based model on residential […]