Research Fellow

Fixed Term 3 years commencing in September 2013

Level 4 £29,541 to £36,298 per annum

The University of Surrey is an international university with a world-class research profile and an enterprising spirit. The School of Economics has a strong reputation for research and teaching in Economics built upon a commitment to high quality, rigorously founded economics. The School was ranked in the top twenty of all UK economics departments in the 2008 RAE (according to Times Higher Education) and since then has made a number of strong, research-oriented senior and junior appointments.

A Research Fellow is required in the Centre for International Macroeconomic Studies (CIMS) in the School of Economics, to work on a newly-funded ESRC three-year project: "Agent-Based and DSGE Macroeconomic Models: A Comparative Study''. The study aims to exploit diversity in different modelling approaches to macroeconomics, investigating the systematic improvement of state of art DSGE and ABM models through comparisons and the construction of hybrid models.

The project and research contract, will commence on September 1st, 2013. The applicant must have a PhD in Economics, or be close to completion. Experience of the construction and estimation of DSGE models in a Dynare-Matlab environment, and a good understanding of the computational methods used are essential. Some knowledge of Agent-based modelling would be an advantage for the applicant.

The project involves both CIMS in the School of Economics and the Centre for Research in Social Simulation (CRESS) in the Department of Sociology. CRESS is a leading multidisciplinary research centre bringing together the social sciences, software engineering and agent-based computing to promote and support the use of social simulation in research in the human sciences. The Research Fellow will work closely with a team that consists of Professor Paul Levine and Tom Holden in CIMS, and Professor Nigel Gilbert, Dr Ozge Dilaver Kalkan and Dr Lynne Hamill in CRESS.

For an informal discussion about the post, please contact: Professor Paul Levine (p.levine@surrey.ac.uk) or Dr Tom Holden (t.holden@surrey.ac.uk).

Closing date for applications: Friday, 31st May 2013

Interviews will take place in the week beginning on 17th June 2013.

To Apply on-line click on the apply button below or alternatively please contact Human Resources, either via email on FBELHR@surrey.ac.uk , or by telephone on 01483 683986 (24 hours).

Further information about CIMS can be found at http://www.surrey.ac.uk/economics/research/groups/centreinternationalmacro/  and about the Faculty at www.surrey.ac.uk/fbel  

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