We are looking for PhDs and Postdocs to join Jonas Juul improving inference, forecasting, and mitigation in future pandemics. The application deadline is May 1st and you can apply here.

The project (funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation) will improve epidemic preparedness in several ways, for example:

• By studying a unique data set of hundreds of thousands of COVID-19 genomes. Studying these nation-scale data in combination with the Danish collection of registers, we hope to understand the details of COVID-19 propagation and mitigation impact in Denmark.
• By quantifying the effectiveness and efficiency of mitigation strategies analytically and numerically, we will get a better understanding of how mitigation strategies should adapt as an epidemic unfolds,
• By improving the statistical foundation for the projection of epidemic case numbers we hope to save lives and money when the next pandemic hits.

The positions come with attractive opportunities for conference participation, travel, etc., and Copenhagen offers a world-class research community in network science, epidemiology, and data science.

Interested in large-scale data analysis, applied statistics, and/or analytical methods for studying epidemics in networks? Read more and apply here: https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=119&ProjectId=181783&DepartmentId=3439&MediaId=1282  and feel free to reach out to Jonas Juul if you have any questions (deadline May 1st 2025)

The NERDS group is a down-to-earth and fun place to be. Copenhagen is often named as the best city in the world to live in, and for good reasons. It’s world-renowned for food, beer, art, music, architecture, the Scandinavian “hygge”, and much more. In Denmark, parental leave is generous, and child-care is excellent and cheap.

In collaboration with Prof. Matteo Magnani – InfoLab Uppsala University – some NERDS are editing a special issue of Network Science focusing on Polarization on Social Network.

Read the full call here. The submission deadline is March 31, 2025, but the articles will be processed as soon as submitted. We encourage  to send an abstract to the editors by October 31, to receive feedback about suitability of the proposal for the special issue.

Articles will be made available as soon as possible after acceptance, and later included into a special collection when all the submissions to this special issue have been processed.
Reach out if you want to discuss if an idea you have is suitable, otherwise just submit!

We are looking for a postdoc to work on a cool multidisciplinary project on networks and the Roman Empire ⚔️, at the NERDS (NEtwoRks, Data, and Society) research group at IT University of Copenhagen. Apply here if interested (deadline May 23rd)! 

In the project, you will be expected to develop network analysis techniques to work with extremely incomplete and heavily biased archaeological data. The idea is to try to reconstruct social relationships between different places in the Roman Empire. We are going to integrate remains at various sites with the most detailed to date reconstruction of Roman mobility. Check out this cool Roman roads network picture. That’s the stuff you’re going to work with!

The work is part of a Villum Synergy project. You’ll be supervised directly by Michele Coscia. You will interact on a regular basis with a team of cool archaeologists from Aarhus University, headed by Tom Brughmans.

Here’s the link to read more about the call and apply (deadline May 23rd): https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=119&ProjectId=181689&DepartmentId=3439&MediaId=1282

The NERDS group is a down-to-earth and fun place to be. Copenhagen is often named as the best city in the world to live in, and for good reasons. It’s world-renowned for food, beer, art, music, architecture, the Scandinavian “hygge”, and much more. In Denmark, parental leave is generous, and child-care is excellent and cheap.

NERDS are currently involved in co-organizing special issues for societally relevant research.

Here our three open calls for papers:

1. Complex Systems for Social Good
   Advances in Complex Systems, NERDS co-organizer: Vedran Sekara
   CFP, deadline Dec 15th: https://www.worldscientific.com/page/acs/callforpapers01
   Data, data science, machine learning, and AI tools and evidence are becoming increasingly important to tackle the complex challenges of climate change, social inequalities, geopolitical crises, migration, and public health emergencies. Complex Systems can provide a robust theoretical framework to address critical operational issues for vulnerable contexts such as replicability and transferability of results, explainability of models, and understanding of the challenges of algorithmic systems and possible biases. This topical issue has the goal of reviewing the potential contributions that Complex Systems can have on creating public value and producing public policy practices.
2. Spatial Data Science for Planning
   GeoForum Perspektiv, NERDS co-organizer: Ane Rahbek Vierø
   CFP (expression of interest), deadline Jan 15th: https://journals.aau.dk/index.php/gfp/announcement/view/207
   We invite submissions that align with the themes of Spatial Data Science, encompassing for example Python, R, AI/ML, Business Intelligence, and their integration with geographic data. Authors are encouraged to explore both theoretical and practical aspects, sharing insights, case studies, methodologies, and real-world applications. Accepting both English and Danish contributions.
3. Urban Mobility and Green Transportation in Sustainable Cities 
   Journal of Physics: Complexity, NERDS co-organizer: Michael Szell
   CFP, deadline May 31st: https://iopscience.iop.org/collections/jpcomplex-231012-387
   This Focus aims to explore the intersection of physics and complexity in the context of urban mobility and green transportation, shedding light on cutting-edge research that not only elucidates the fundamental principles governing these systems but also offers practical applications to create more sustainable and efficient cities. Regarding the green transportation, it can be any means of travel that does not negatively impact the environment, including (but are not limited to) bikes (dockless or docked sharing ones), ebikes (both private or sharing ones), electric vehicles. A better green transportation would involve both the infrastructure level and human behaviors level.

Please contact us for any questions regarding these calls. Happy writing/submitting!

ITU is looking for an Associate Professor in data science and machine learning, including network science, computational social science: Read more and apply at the official call page
Deadline: Sep 8

This is not a call specific to any research group at ITU, but if the new Assoc. Prof’s topic fits with our group NEtwoRks, Data, and Society (NERDS) at IT University of Copenhagen, they could join us. NERDS focuses on quantitative projects at the boundary of computational social science and network science, including science of science, social dynamics, urban sustainability, data visualization, and fundamental questions in complex systems.

Both salary and working conditions are excellent at ITU. NERDS is a down-to-earth and fun place to be, we have won the Research Environment of 2022 prize. Copenhagen is often named as the best city in the world to live in, and for good reasons. It’s world-renowned for food, beer, art, music, architecture, the Scandinavian “hygge”, and much more. In Denmark, parental leave is generous, and child-care is excellent and cheap.

If you are interested to know more about NERDS or working at ITU please reach out to us.

Luca Aiello is hiring three PhD/postdocs for his Carlsberg Foundation’s COCOONS project on social coordination. Links to the calls here.