Jobs & Appointments

Postdoctoral Position: Cross-scalar adaptation to socio-hydrological risks in the Mexico City Basin The Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University Job Description The Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University is seeking a postdoctoral fellow to take a leadership role in the development of an agent-based model for an innovative NSF-funded project on urbanization, climate change adaptation and social-hydrological […]

Modelling Household Energy Demand Salary: up to £37,394 The WholeSEM project is a four-year, £5.7 million collaboration between the Universities of Surrey and Cambridge, UCL and Imperial College funded by EPSRC to develop, integrate and apply models of future energy supply and demand in collaboration with stakeholders in academia, government and industry in the UK and internationally. For further information about the consortium please visit . The work at Surrey focuses on understanding […]

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 […]

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 […]

THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL CHANGE PARTICULARS OF APPOINTMENT Research Associate The Social Complexity of Immigration and Diversity (SCID) 1. The University invites applications for the above post tenable from 1 September 2013 (or as soon as possible after that) for a period of one year (fixed term). 2. Further details of the post are attached, including a job description and person specification. 3. Salary Grade 6, £29,24 per annum. 4. […]

The Center for the Study of Complex Systems (CSCS) at the University of Michigan invites applications for a tenure-track position of Assistant Professor of Complex Systems. The appointment will begin September 1, 2014. This is a university year appointment. Information about the Center can be found here: www.cscs.umich.edu. Required Qualifications Candidates must have a demonstrated interest in complex systems, broadly construed, with a doctoral degree in a related field such as computer […]

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 […]

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 […]

The SMAC Team of the IRIT lab (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse) invites applications for a one-year postdoctoral fellowship in the EmoTES project funded by the ANR. The aim of the EmoTES project is to study a specific class of emotions, so-called “strategic emotions”, namely those emotions such as guilt, remorse… which arise in the context of strategic interaction (that is, when an agent’s utility of a given choice also depends on other agents’ behaviors). The main goal […]

The Environmental Studies Program at Dartmouth College is seeking a postdoctoral researcher for a two year position working on agent based modeling of consumer behavior. In particular, the project examines the aggregate impacts of bounded rationality and social norms on demand for consumer goods. The postdoc will be involved in every stage of the project from research design to programming to data analysis and production of publications. The successful applicant will have experience using […]