Description: The PhD project will be part of IA-CollDecisions project, funded by ITI-CNRS. The thesis should focus on developing numerical models of multi-level climate negotiations and deliberation. The PhD candidate can decide to explore and study some of the following paths: 

1. Develop multi-level agent based models to understand how country-level and global negotiations and opinion dynamics interact;

2. Couple an Agent-Based Model of climate negotiation and an Integrated-Assessment Model of the climate and the economy (for instance in the context of the Challenge AI for Global Climate Cooperation); 

3. Better calibrate and ground empirically those models using AI tools to analyze the dynamics of negotiations and/or opinions in the context of climate change.

Application: We ask the candidate to write a short application document in which they lay down a research project related to the aim described above (2 pages) and indicate their motivation to apply to this project (1 page). A CV, transcripts and 2 letters of recommendation will be asked.