Job Opportunities
Postdoctoral Scholar – Civil & Environmental Engineering
University of California, Berkeley
Deadline: March 1st, 2025
The Apte Group at University of California, Berkeley is searching for one to three outstanding postdoctoral researchers to conduct innovative interdisciplinary research centered on air pollution and aerosols. Broadly, we are interested in how air pollution connects to other major local and global challenges, including environmental justice, environmental health, climate change, energy, and development.
Focus Areas: The specific area(s) of research will be determined based on available funding and mutual interest between the successful candidate and Prof. Apte. Active areas of research in Prof. Apte’s lab group include the development and application of air pollution assessment methods at the local, national and global scale. Current priority research areas include:
Methods:
| • | Hyperlocal air quality mapping: Methods and applications of mobile monitoring for mapping urban air pollution sources and impacts at high spatial resolution using a combination of fast-response analyzers and spectrometers. |
| • | Reduced-complexity air quality models: Development and application of reduced-complexity models (InMAP) for use in California, USA, and South Asia. |
| • | Hyperlocal inverse modeling: Development and application of inverse modeling methods to characterize fine-scale emissions patterns in cities. |
| • | Other: observation and modeling methods, including satellite remote sensing, sensor networks, and chemical transport models. |
Tenure Track Faculty – Civil/Environmental Engineering
University of Iowa
Deadline: April 1, 2025
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Iowa invites applications for a full-time tenure-track faculty position to begin in Fall 2025. We are conducting a broad search for innovative scholars in hydraulics, hydrology, hydrometeorology, and water resources. All ranks will be considered. The faculty member would also hold a research center affiliation at IIHR - Hydroscience and Engineering.
Our program has strengths in hydraulics, hydrology, and water resources in areas of hydrologic forecasting and prediction, hydrologic remote sensing, hydroinformatics, hydrometeorology and hydroclimatology, environmental water resources, computational fluid dynamics, atmospheric boundary layer process, and flow measurement and sediment transport. We welcome applicants who complement or enhance these strengths, including research that advances broadly understood hydrologic knowledge including flood prediction, disaster management and resilience, and sustainable water resource infrastructure, and those who can lead us in new directions.
Postdoctoral Scholar – Cementitious Materials
University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research
Deadline: February 28, 2025
Over the past 30 years the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research [UK CAER] has built up an outstanding research program directed to the development and characterization of novel low-energy and low-CO2 cementitious materials based on industrial by-products.
CAER is staffing up its Cementitious Materials program in response to several new externally supported projects and seeks one postdoctoral scholar. The successful candidate will join a small team with primary responsibilities focused on one or more of the following:
a) Characterization and process of raw materials,
b) Carrying out process trials for optimizing clinker compositions, followed by characterization of the clinker samples,
c) Investigating the hydration process and mechanical development of cement, mortar, and concrete samples.