Jobs & Appointments

Center for Mind and Culture, Boston The Center for Mind and Culture (CMAC) is a non-profit think tank conducting non-partisan research into aspects of the mind-culture nexus (see www.mindandculture.org). CMAC is seeking a post-doctoral research fellow expert in modeling and simulation and interested in applying those techniques to religious cognition and behavior, immigration and integration, and related areas. Java and NetLogo are the principle coding languages in use on this project. […]

Dear, Please see attached the official ad for postdoctoral positions in the NIH-funded Center for Modeling Complex Interactions (CMCI) at the University of Idaho. CMCI plans to hire two postdoctoral fellows interested in applying agent-based modeling in biomedical research. The specialty is open, but we are particularly interested in systems biology, statistical, and agent-based modeling. Expertise in more than one modeling approach and more than one programming language is […]

The CASCADE project, funded by the US National Institutes of Health, aims to develop calibrated and validated agent-based models of alcohol use behaviours in the populations of the UK and US. The project has a new vacancy for a Research Scientist available at the Public Health Institute in California. Further details of the vacancy, including how to apply, are available here: http://phi.org/work-with-us/employment/position-description/index.php?id=18126

Improving Resilience for the Rio Grande Coupled Human-Natural System Postdoctoral Research Position Geography and Environmental Sustainability, University of Oklahoma Job Description The Koch Lab is currently seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher to work with an interdisciplinary team of researchers on the integrated modeling of the Rio Grande Basin. The position is part of the project “Improving Resilience for the Rio Grande Coupled Human-Natural System”, funded by the USGS and will focus on […]

Position Description: The Department of Anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences at The Ohio State University invites applications for a tenure-track/tenured position at the assistant, associate or professor level, commencing autumn semester 2017. We are looking for a scholar whose research and teaching focus on how culture and institutions shape the resilience and sustainability of social-ecological systems. We are particularly interested in scholars who combine evolutionary […]

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 […]

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 […]

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