Jobs & Appointments

Centre for Environmental Strategy, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Surrey Fully Funded PhD Studentship on the Role of Social and Physical Networks in Promoting Sustainable Industrial Systems The Centre for Environmental Strategy invites applications for a PhD studentship on the EPSRC-funded interdisciplinary research project ERIE (Evolution and Resilience of Industrial Ecosystems), a joint venture with the Departments of Mathematics, Computing and Sociology […]

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 […]

NEW FACULTY POSITIONS IN COMPLEXITY SCIENCE University of Miami, Florida, USA The College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Miami seeks applicants and nominations for four faculty appointments in Complexity Science, including complex networks and complex systems, from disciplines across the physical, biological, computational, mathematical, statistical, medical, economic and social sciences. Successful candidates will join a vigorous research program already underway across […]

The George Mason University, Krasnow Institute, Department of Computational Social Science (Fairfax, Va., USA) has a nine-month, tenure-track Assistant Professor opening at the junior level for a person working in one or more of the following fields: computational sociology, computational economics, computational politics or computational geography. We have a slight preference for people working on social networks, ‘big data,’ and/or geographic information systems. The Department of […]

e-Policy is a new project funded by the European Commission under its Framework 7 programme that aims to equip policymakers with integrated models, visualization, simulation and opinion mining techniques that improve the outcomes of complex decision making. The project will involve expertise from computational social science, environmental engineering, optimization, machine learning and visualization. It will use the formation of a regional energy plan in the Emilia Romagna region of Italy […]

Sustainable Solutions Initiative Postdoctoral Fellows Program - Positions available The University of Maine is conducting a search for Sustainability Science Postdoctoral Fellows. The successful candidates will join Maine’s Sustainability Solutions Initiative (SSI) funded in part by a 5-year, $20 million NSF EPSCoR grant. SSI includes a team of 50+ faculty and 25 doctoral students from a range of disciplines and multiple academic institutions statewide. SSI’s innovative research program […]

University of Kassel, Position for a scientific assistant, code number 15751The Center for Environmental Systems Research at the University ofKassel is offering one PhD Candidate position (50%) in the context ofthe SPREAD project funded by German Federal Ministry of Education andResearch.The SPREAD (Scenarios of Perception and Reaction to Adaptation) projectaims to develop spatially and temporally explicit computer simulationswhich model the diffusion of changed patterns of behaviour […]

Open Position at ETH Zurich, in the Team of Prof. Dirk Helbing SOMS (www.soms.ethz.ch) hosts a young, multidisciplinary, diverse international research team, investigating techno-socio-economic systems from the point of view of complexity science, with a particular focus on social cooperation, norms, conflict, and collective behavior, combining the following methods: stochastic mathematical modeling, multi-agent simulation (spatial evolutionary games), behavioral lab and web experiments, […]

The Institute of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences in the Tropics and Subtropics – Chair of Land Use Economics searches for a highly qualified candidate at post-doctoral level. The position will focus on agent-based modeling of agricultural land use with special consideration of learning, group decisions and collective action. The candidate will contribute to the joint research efforts of meteorologists, soil scientists, agronomists and agricultural economists at Universität […]

Two Four-Year Research Fellow Posts in Complex Social Systems Simulation http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AAZ394/research-fellows-complex-systems-simulation-two-posts/ EPSRC Care Life Cycle Research Programme University of Southampton - School of Social Sciences £27,319 to £31,671 per annum The University of Southampton has recently been awarded over £3million by the EPSRC under its ‘Complexity Science in the Real World’ initiative to carry out research on the ‘Care Life Cycle: Responding to the […]