About this role
Post-doc Researcher Postdoc Understanding Social Dynamics in the Energy Transition via computational modelling with Agent Networks We are seeking a highly motivated researcher with demonstrable skills and experience in studying social aspects of the energy transition with computational modelling methods. The postdoc project is conducted in the framework of the project ECHO (Energy transition, Collective dynamics and Human Opinions in agent-networks), financed by both DFG and NWO . This project requires close collaboration between the project team at the Department of Sociology at RUG (PI prof. dr. Andreas Flache ) and the project team at the Institute of Energy Informatics at the University of Oldenburg (PI prof. dr. Sebastian Lehnhoff ).
Postdoc Understanding Social Dynamics in the Energy Transition via computational modelling with Agent Networks https://werkenbij.rug.nl/vacature/postdoc-understanding-social-dynamics-in-the-energy-transition-via-computational-modelling-with-agent-networks-2590 / What are you going to do? The overall project focuses on modelling the dynamics of societal debates about the energy transition with two interconnected approaches, agent-based opinion dynamics models and agent-models based on LLM-agents. The part of the project conducted at RUG under the lead of Prof. Andreas Flache will focus in particular on the ABM / opinion dynamics aspect, linking models to empirical data on social networks in communities facing debates about local renewable energy initiatives.
Comparison and, where possible, integration of the two modelling approaches is a core part of the project, requiring close collaboration with the German partner. The postdoc develops existing opinion dynamics ABM further to make them applicable to empirical settings relevant to societal debates about the energy transition, using simulation tools like NetLogo or Python. Further, in close collaboration with the entire project team, the postd...