Jobs & Appointments

We are looking for really excellent candidates to apply to fill two Permanent academic posts at the School of Sociology, University College Dublin.I would especially encourage early stage scholars with strong data analytical skills, including analysis of large scale and complex data, to consider applying for these posts: Ref: 007851 UCD College of Social Sciences and Law UCD School of Sociology Lecturer (s) in Comparative Sociology and Sociology (2 Permanent Posts) Applications are invited […]

The postdoctoral fellow will work collaboratively with the partners and stakeholders, and the International Centre for Infectious Diseases involved in research projects. Applicants should have significant experience in health economics, strategy evaluation, policy analysis, modelling and simulations for vaccine-preventable diseases, and statistical analysis. The successful candidate will have excellent English language communication skills (both written and verbal), with prior experience […]

CLIMATE CHANGE AND REGIME SHIFTS IN FLOOD-PRONE URBAN AREAS: AN AGENT-BASED APPROACH Background: Coupled socio-ecological systems (SES) are known to experience regime shifts. By this we mean fast and usually irreversible changes in systems, like the ones that we observe when ecosystems collapse due to overexploitation, or when economy cannot recover after natural disasters (floods, droughts, etc.), or when societies undergo dramatic changes as in resource-driven conflicts. The topic is of […]

At the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ in Leipzig, Germany (Department of Ecological Modelling) the Junior Research Group “”POLISES - Global food security policies and their social-ecological side effects in regions prone to global change” () funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research is established. In this group the following vacancy is offered at the nearest possible date: ## PhD Position (m/f) ## Subject: Social-ecological impacts of financial risk- […]

The Center for Complexity in Business at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business seeks applications for a postdoctoral fellowship for the 2014-2015 school year. The mission of the Center for Complexity in Business is to become the premier international academic research center for the application of complex systems method to business and management science. This postdoctoral fellowship position will aid in helping the Center achieve this mission through research in […]

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 […]

The Centre for Studies in Technology&Sustainable Development and the Department of Geo-information Processing at the University of Twente look for a postdoctoral researcher to join the international MIRACLE project (MIning Relationships Among variables in large datasets from CompLEx systems). The goal of this research is to develop methods and web-based tools for analysis and visualization of big data from agent-based models of human-environment systems. The details on the project, […]

IFPRI VACANCY POSTING Position # 14-108 (N) (INTERNATIONALLY RECRUITED POSITION) TITLE: SENIOR RESEARCH ASSISTANT LOCATION: WASHINGTON, DC DIVISION: ENVIRONMENT AND PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY REPORTS TO: ANDREW BELL, RESEARCH FELLOW, EPTD GRADE: 14B FLSA STATUS: EXEMPT POSTING DATE: FEBRUARY 6, 2014 CLOSING DATE: MARCH 6, 2014 OR UNTIL FILLED Job Summary: The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) seeks a qualified candidate to serve as Senior Research Assistant in its Environment […]

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 […]

Protecting Knowledge Diversity and Promoting Resilience: Modelling Mexican Marginal Farmers’ Climate Adaptation Application Deadline: 17 January 2014 Supervised by Dr. Garry Polhill, and Dr B Slee at the James Hutton Institute and co-supervised with Prof. Bruce Edmonds (http://bruce.edmonds.name/) at the Centre for Policy Modelling (http://cfpm.org/), Manchester Metropolitan University (http://mmu.ac.uk/), and Dr. Matt Hare (http://www.seeconsult.org/en/index.php?page=matt-hare). ## […]