Vacancies
Within EvoGamesPlus we offer 15 fully-funded 3-year positions for Early Stage Researchers (ESRs). If you are interested in one or more positions we offer, please contact the first supervisor listed for this position(s), briefly motivating your interest and attaching your up-to-date CV, by January 15, 2021. This is just to ensure that you are considered in all positions you are interested in.
To be eligible for a particular position, at the start of that project you should be within 4 years after acquiring your degree which allows you to undertake a doctoral study. Moreover, you cannot possess a doctorate yet at the start of the project and you should not have lived in the country where the project takes place for more than one year during the past 3 years.
Application dates and start dates vary. Please check individual ESR projects for details as well as for specific / local acceptance requirements.
The evolution of cooperation in structured populations involving multiplayer interactions
ESR1: City, University of London, United Kingdom
Internal supervisors: Prof. Mark Broom, Dr. Andrea Baronchelli
Brief project description: This project will develop and expand evolutionary game theoretical models of cooperation for multiplayer interactions. The main goal is to explore the conditions when the evolution of cooperation is favoured. Recent work has found initial structural properties which support cooperation, and we will carry out a more thorough investigation of these and other properties. We will consider a wide range of multi-player cooperative games, which have been demonstrated to have distinct properties. These models will then be applied in different fields, such as epidemiology.
Starting date: July 2021 or earlier
Application deadline: Passed
The evolution of cooperation in structured populations involving multi-level selection
ESR3: Centre for Ecological Research/Ökológiai Kutatóközpont, Hungary
Internal supervisors: Dr. József Garay, Dr. Ádám Kun
Brief project description: We shall develop models of multi-level selection, in which within-group competition and between-group competition are at odds. Individuals within a group face a social dilemma and their individual payoffs determine their within-group success. At the same time, the groups may also compete with each other, and cooperative individuals contribute more to the competition abilities of their group than the selfish ones. We will investigate conditions that are conductive for the maximisation of the total payoff (welfare) of the group.
Starting date: September 2021
Application deadline: continuous till the position is filled