2 postdoctoral positions available at Prof. Dirk Helbing's lab
ETH Zurich's Chair of Sociology, in particular of Modeling and Simulation, lead by Prof. Dirk Helbing, the scientific coordinator of the FuturICT project, is looking for 2 highly motivated Postdocs. Hereafter is the official ad for these 2 positions (salary range between 80,000 and 100,000 CHF, depending on qualification):
Research subjects of particular interest are: agent-based, multi-level, and/or evolutionary game theoretical models of opinion formation (e.g. consensus formation or polarization), homophily, social coordination, cooperation, norms, conflict, revolutions, and/or war; simulation of the early stages of cultural evolution; artificial societies; social innovations and socio-inspired technologies; global real-time measurement of socio-economic activities; science of science and non-monetary incentive systems; measurement of social capital and the "social footprint"; methods and technologies to create collective awareness; reputation and recommender systems using the "wisdom of crowds" effect; systemic risks and integrated risk management; new economic thinking and resilient financial architectures; social money with a memory; how to balance public and private, accountability and anonymity; ethical and value-sensitive ICT. Candidates should have an interest in supporting the visions and goals of the FuturICT project (see www.futurict.eu and the related facebook, twitter and vimeo pages).
Postdoc position 1 is intended for a physicist or computer scientist with strong skills in computational and analytical methods, data mining, simulation, and visualization.
Postdoc position 2 is intended for a social scientist or economist with good skills in sociological theory as well as experimental and/or computational social science.
Excellent English language skills, social skills, and international experience are needed. A multi-disciplinary background is favorable.
We expect the readiness to collaborate in a multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural team to jointly and systematically address grand scientific challenges such as the ones outlined in this paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.3883.
Your application includes a short motivational letter, their CV, exam documents (A-levels, bachelor, master or diploma, and PhD), a publication list and 2 representative papers. Please indicate what distinguishes you from 80% of the other applicants and arrange that 2 or 3 letters of recommendation will be sent directly to us. Computational, presentation and English language skills will be tested. Applicants are requested to send their materials until September 30, 2012, at the following address: https://sv1.refline.ch/845721/2195/index.html?cid=1&lang=en. Address your application to: ETH Zürich, Mr. Rolf Oertli, Human Resources, 8092 Zürich.
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