Postdoctoral Research Associate/Fellow

Faculty of Environment, Science & Economy - Business School

Land, Environment, Economics and Policy Institute

This post is available for researchers willing to embrace interdisciplinary working to produce impactful research into climate change mitigation and impacts as part of the Land, Environment, Economics and Policy (LEEP) Institute within the Department of Economics, University of Exeter Business School.

The post is open to researchers with a quantitative background and are available to start as soon as possible, full time for an initial 18-month period, with excellent prospects for extension

The post

We are seeking researchers with quantitative backgrounds in one or more areas including, but not limited to process-based modelling of the environment and environment-economy interactions, data science, agricultural economics or science, ecological, climate or other natural science. We are keen to hire researchers that want to join forces with an interdisciplinary team to develop the evidence, analyses and tools needed to address the major environmental and related economic challenges facing humanity in the 21st Century including: climate change; biodiversity loss, environmental pollution and food security.

You will join a team actively working in this domain with research themes that include: the trade-offs between land use, food and the environment; landscape portfolio optimisation; synthesis of large datasets for modelling and the development of digital twins of the environment; risk analysis; uncertainty quantification for complex models; development of decision support systems; environment related welfare and distribution challenges including access to high quality environments; and many others. You will collaborate with the LEEP team in delivering research outputs in these themes and have the opportunity to develop your own research in these or related areas.

LEEP is dedicated to generating high-quality, internationally-acclaimed research outputs, publications and impactful contributions. We are keen to develop the careers of researchers by supporting your research publications and CV development and have a very strong record of assisting staff from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds into long term research and academic positions.

We welcome applications from a broad range of disciplines, recognising the importance of interdisciplinary working to provide a comprehensive understanding of environment-economic interactions. We are looking for colleagues to add to, extend or complement the work of LEEP across a range of areas. As such the LEEP team invite applications from candidates with strong skills in one or more of the following areas:

• Process-based (structural) modelling of the environment, economy or environment-economy interactions.
• Data analysis, fitting of statistical or machine learning models (particularly spatio-temporal methods), data processing and visualisation.
• Agricultural systems, agricultural economics and associated policy environment.
• Working in an interdisciplinary team and engaging with non-academic stakeholders to guide the design of decision support tools. 

The main purpose of the post is to conduct applied research to translate academic science into environmental, economic and social benefits.

Please ensure you read the Job Description and Person Specification for full details of this role.

Further Information

For further information please contact Professor Ian Bateman, e-mail I.Bateman@exeter.ac.uk.

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