The IIASA Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) Program looks to recruit a strong candidate for its Sustainable Systems Service (S3) Research Group, to support with advancing the understanding of global changes in low-carbon behaviors and public opinion on climate policies. Background The ECE Program at IIASA is one of the world’s leading global Integrated Assessment…
Application of Multiobjective Optimization to Provide Operational Guidance for Allocating Supply among Multiple Sources
Wang, H., Wanakule, N., Asefa, T., Erkyihun S., Basdekas L., and Hayslett, R. 2023, Application of Multi-Objective Optimization for multiple Supply resources allocation, Journal of Water Resource Planning and Management. https://doi.org/10.1061/JWRMD5.WRENG-5827 This study is motivated by multipleobjective optimization in short-term water management for a regional water utility. Although an increasing application…
A Risk-Based Framework to Evaluate Infrastructure Investment Options for a Water Supply System
Wang, H., Wanakule, N., Asefa, T. and Erkyihun, S, 2022, A risk-based framework to evaluate infrastructure investment option for a water supply system, Journal of Environmental Engineering, November 2022 | Volume 148, Issue 11, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)EE.1943-7870.0002069 Increasing water demand due to socio-economic development often requires structure-level interventions, e.g., infrastructure expansion…
DMDU Summer School 2023
July 24 – August 4, 2023Mexico CityTecnologico de MonterreySchool of Government and Public TransformationApplication Deadline: March 20th, 2023 Program overview Offered in collaboration with the Society for Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty (http://deepuncertainty.org), the purpose of the DMDU summer school is to bring together graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, practitioners, and…
Election Results 2023
Thank you to all our members who cast their vote in our recent election! The new Society Leadership for the next two years will be: President: Jan Kwakkel (TU Delft) Vice President: Julie Rozenberg (World Bank) Communications & Outreach Chair: Antonia Hadjimichael (Penn State University) Education & Training Chair: Edmundo Molina-Perez (Tecnológico de…
Post-doc/Assistant Prof. in decision science under uncertainty (Milan, Italy)
We are looking for one or more researchers in decision theory and computational applications in the area of climate change. The applicant will work on a new ERC project dealing with deep and structural uncertainties in deep-time projections of climate and economy scenarios. The position is based in Milan either…
Researcher/Modeler – climate-economy-environment [IIASA]
The ECE Program at IIASA is one of the world’s leading global Integrated Assessment Modeling (IAM) teams, and works to deepen understanding of rapid, just, and feasible systems transformations toward environmental, social, and economic sustainability. Continuing a long tradition going back to the foundation of IIASA, ECE’s modeling tools stand at the…
Self-Adaptive Multi-Objective Climate Policies Align Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies (2022)
Carlino, A., Tavoni, M., & Castelletti, A. (2022). Self-adaptive multi-objective climate policies align mitigation and adaptation strategies. Earth’s Future, 10, e2022EF002767. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EF002767 Intensifying climate change impacts can divert the economic resources away from emission reduction toward adaptation to reduce rising damages, jeopardizing temperature stabilization within safe levels. Indeed, the traditional…
Simulation-Based Optimization: Implications of Complex Adaptive Systems and Deep Uncertainty (2022)
Tolk, Andreas. 2022. “Simulation-Based Optimization: Implications of Complex Adaptive Systems and Deep Uncertainty” Information 13, no. 10: 469. https://doi.org/10.3390/info13100469 Within the modeling and simulation community, simulation-based optimization has often been successfully used to improve productivity and business processes. However, the increased importance of using simulation to better understand complex adaptive systems…
Three-year postdoc position in Water-Energy System Planning at the University of Sheffield (United Kingdom)
If you are passionate about drought resilience, the energy transition, or both, we would love to hear from you. This post is a unique opportunity of tackling both in the same project. The project. You will work for up to 3 years in a research project that will make water resource…