University of Vermont

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Vermont EPSCoR’s latest Track 1 award, Basin Resilience to Extreme Events, is recruiting for PhD graduate student and postdoc positions. Visit http://www.uvm.edu/EPSCoR/jobs for more information and additional positions available.

We seek a student (Position ID GRA#005) interested in pursuing PhD level research in the areas of computational social science, economic and policy modeling, complex systems, applied mathematics or related fields. Candidates must enjoy participating in an interdisciplinary research team of faculty, other graduate students, undergraduates, and stake holders, all working toward identifying strategies that improve water quality resilience within the basin.

Qualifications: The candidate must enroll in PhD program at UVM. Preference will be given to candidates with an undergraduate or Master’s degree in economics, computer science, quantitative social sciences or related field with research interests in agent-based modeling. Expertise in advanced statistical methods, including machine learning techniques, artificial neural networks and econometrics is also desirable.

This position comes with a research assistantship that is renewable through May 2021. The position will begin on June 1, 2017, and applications will be considered until the position is filled.

Vermont EPSCoR will interview candidates at the ASSA Meeting January 6-8, 2017, in Chicago.

Questions can be directed to Asim Zia (Asim.Zia@uvm.edu).