Jobs & Appointments

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 […]

PhD StudentshipCentre for Policy Modelling (http://cfpm.org)Manchester Metropolitan University(as part of the EPSRC-funded SCID project)Stipend: £13,290 per annum + applicable fees1+3 years or 3 years depending on previous research experienceup to 4 year PhD studentship in Agent-based modelling, at the Centrefor Policy Modelling , Manchester, UK starting sept2011, as part of the EPSRC funded SCID project(http://scid-project.org).Details at: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ACR878/phd-studentship/

Oregon State University, Department of Biological & Ecological Engineering Position: The Department of Biological and Ecological Engineering at Oregon State University (OSU) announces the availability of a full-time position for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to develop coupled human/natural systems models supporting alternative futures assessments. The emphasis of this position is on developing models and associated datasets addressing coupled human/natural systems, including land […]

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 department of Information and Computing Sciences form the Utrecht University offers a two year postdoc position in the new European project SEMIRA that is part of the European ComplexityNET framework. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Project description ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SEMIRA is a European funded project, locally administered through the Dutch research Council NWO. The […]

POSTDOCTORAL POSITION (Nov 2010 – Oct 2011) Looking for a SOCIAL SCIENTIST WITH SOCIAL SIMULATION BACKGROUND, INTERESTED IN SUPPORTING AND RESEARCHING PARTICIPATORY DEVELOPMENT OF ROLE PLAYING GAMES AND COMPANION MODELS. The Research Institution El Colegio de la Frontera Sur is a non-Profit, government funded, Mexican academic institution with 5 campuses on the southern border of Mexico. It integrates long-term research, Masters/PhD teaching, and participatory outreach through a host of […]

Postdoctoral position Ref:GAMA10 Multi-­scale agent-­based modeling - Contribution to the GAMA platform Work context IFI (www.ifi.auf.org) is an Institute of the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) created in 1993. The Institute is located in Hanoï (Vietnam) and provides a Master course in Computer Science. Since 2008, the IFI research laboratory named MSI « Modélisation etSimulation Informatique / Modeling and Computer Simulation » is included in an IRD International Research […]

Under the aegis of the Economic and Social Research Council and its National Centre for Research Methods,SIMIAN (Simulation Innovation: A Node) is offering User Fellowships in agent based simulation. You work in the UK and want to make effective use of agent based simulation outside the usual context of academic research could develop a clearly defined project of two weeks to two months duration would value a supportive and expert environment away from your everyday work could take up the […]

For UK/EU candidates only. Could fit planned simulation PhD supervised by Edmund Chattoe-Brown (Please contact me with proposals for suitable theses.) Go to: http://www2.le.ac.uk/jobs Click Go to Vacancy Search and search for jobs in “Department of Sociology”.

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