DURHAM UNIVERSITY: Postdoctoral Analysis Affiliate in Archaeology and Agent-Based mostly Modelling

Functions are invited for a Postdoctoral Analysis Affiliate within the subject of agent-based modelling of previous societies, engaged on the Science, Society and Environmental Change within the First Millennium CE (SSE1K) venture (https://cordis.europa.eu/venture/id/101044437). The venture is funded by the ERC and started in 2023. It’s led by Professor Helen Foxhall Forbes on the College of Ca’ Foscari in Venice, with collaborators in Basel, Tubingen, and Durham. The postholder might be based mostly in Durham and can report back to the Durham venture lead, Professor Dan Lawrence. SSE1K explores the environmental and climatic adjustments which were recognized as causes for societal and political processes and occasions within the Mediterranean within the first millennium CE, combining historic and archaeological approaches. The central questions of the venture are 1. How did people expertise and understand climatic and environmental fluctuation throughout the Mediterranean within the first millennium CE, and a couple of. how did they reply each intellectually and socially to those altering circumstances? The postholder will assist to reply these questions utilizing agent-based modelling (ABM) of social-ecological programs, drawing on archaeological and historic datasets collated by means of the venture for varied areas within the Mediterranean, with a probable deal with Central and Southern Italy. They’ll have entry to the college supercomputing providers to help this work. They might even be required to supply maps and carry out easy spatial evaluation for different members of the venture. They are going to be concerned in publications, with alternatives as each a primary and co-author, and also will interact in project-related dissemination, administration and different actions.