DURHAM UNIVERSITY: Postdoctoral Analysis Affiliate in Archaeology and Agent-Primarily based Modelling

Purposes 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) challenge (https://cordis.europa.eu/challenge/id/101044437). The challenge is funded by the ERC and commenced 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 primarily based in Durham and can report back to the Durham challenge lead, Professor Dan Lawrence. SSE1K explores the environmental and climatic adjustments which have been 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 challenge 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 the challenge for numerous areas within the Mediterranean, with a probable deal with Central and Southern Italy. They’ll have entry to the college supercomputing companies to assist this work. They could even be required to supply maps and carry out easy spatial evaluation for different members of the challenge. 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.