Jobs & Appointments

e are looking for a post-doctoral researcher who has experience in analytic philosophy and a background in formal modelling and/or agent-based simulations, to study norms of collective deliberation and group decision-making. This is a full-time, 2-year position at the world-known Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics. Read on to learn more about the project and this call!

The ENCODE project: Explicating Norms for Collective Deliberation (NWO VIDI project)
Deliberation is often see[…]

Research Associate at Centre for Sustainable Road Freight, Heriot-Watt University; responsible for leading the agent based modelling activity. The centre has focused on solutions that will deliver net zero carbon emissions and therefore reflect the emerging energy transitions.

Research Associate at Centre for Logistics & Sustainability, Heriot-Watt University; responsible for leading the agent based modelling activity. The Sustainable Cold-Chain project will bring together world leading interdisciplinary researchers to provide a whole systems approach overseeing technology, finances, food security and sociological aspects of how we can deliver demand and climate adaptation, resilience and decarbonisation of the cold-chain in the food industry simultaneously.

The Department of Resilient Energy Systems in the Faculty of Production Engineering - Mechanical and Process Engineering at the University of Bremen is looking for a Research Associate (f/m/d) - subject to vacancy - for the position:
Research Associate (PhD Candidate) (f/m/d) with a focus on socio-technical transition research
(TV-L E 13)

Focus lies on:
- Socio-technical view on resilient transition paths
- Agent-based modeling
- Development of a stakeholder participation

The Columbia University Earth Institute Center for Climate Systems Research (CCSR) is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Scientist to work in the area of global crop modeling and climate change at its Morningside campus in New York City. The Postdoctoral Research Scientist will be part of an international team working to improve the responses of global crop models to atmospheric geoengineering scenarios and other perturbations including nuclear conflict or volcanic eruptions.

The Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research in Chinese Academy of Sciences (http://english.igsnrr.cas.cn/) is seeking applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher. The successful candidate will be part of the Key Lab of Land Surface Pattern and Simulation team of CAS, and research interests including climate change, agricultural phenology and food security.

SLU is recruiting a professor who shares our aspirations to be world leading within the area of weed ecology and management. We are looking for a person with an ecological approach who will work towards solving the applied problems that weedy plants pose in agricultural ecosystems. For this, we welcome applicants with an interest in engaging in trans- and inter-disciplinary research. New EU regulations to ban certain herbicides make sustainable weed management a matter of urgency for Nordic[…]

For all the details of the two Ph.D. positions, click here: http://leronshultsblog.com/2020/08/03/four-new-research-positions-now-available-for-religion-ideology-and-prosociality-project/

For all the details of the two post-doctoral positions, click here: http://leronshultsblog.com/2020/08/03/four-new-research-positions-now-available-for-religion-ideology-and-prosociality-project/

PRAEDOC

Duration of employment: 4 year/s

Extent of Employment: 30 hours/week

Job Description:
Participation in research, teaching and administration:
- Participation in research projects/ scientific studies in the field of Computational Communication Science
- Participation in publications/ academic articles/ presentations
- We expect the successful candidate to sign a doctoral thesis agreement within 12-18 months
- Participation in teaching and independent teaching of courses as define[…]