CEADs Team Recruiting Outstanding Undergraduate and Master Graduates as PhD Students with Full Scholarships
The CEADs team (ceads.net), supported by the Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management at University College London, the School of International Development at the University of East Anglia, and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, has long been committed to interdisciplinary research on climate change. The team is recruiting multiple PhD students, with tuition waived for 3-4 years and full scholarships of GBP 14,000-17,000 per year. Applicants with backgrounds in mathematics, computer science, and environmental science will be given priority. Relevant research areas include carbon-emissions big data construction and analysis, water resources accounting, research on China emission-reduction policies and pathways, ecological economics, environmental input-output analysis, and disaster footprint research. The English IELTS requirement is an overall score of 7 or above, with no less than 6.0 in listening, speaking, and reading, and no less than 7.0 in writing. Interested applicants may contact Dr. Zhifu Mi (z.mi@ucl.ac.uk), Dr. Yuli Shan (y.shan@uea.ac.uk), or Professor Dabo Guan (dabo.guan@uea.ac.uk).
University College London, abbreviated as UCL, was founded in 1826 and is located in London, United Kingdom. It is a world-leading public comprehensive research university, consistently ranked among the global top ten, and is one of the United Kingdoms long-established universities with an outstanding reputation. It is the founding college of the University of London and is recognized alongside the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, Imperial College London, and the London School of Economics and Political Science as one of the G5 super elite universities. UCL is also a member of the Golden Triangle, the Russell Group, and the China-UK University Engineering Education and Research Alliance. UCL has produced 34 Nobel laureates and 3 Fields Medalists, including Charles K. Kao, known as the father of fiber optics; Alexander Graham Bell, known as the father of telephone communication; Francis Crick, a discoverer of DNA and a father of molecular biology; Demis Hassabis and David Silver, creators of the AlphaGo artificial intelligence algorithm; literary master Rabindranath Tagore; and Mahatma Gandhi, the father of India.
The University of East Anglia is located in Norwich, England. It is among the global top 1% of research-intensive universities and is ranked among the worlds top 150 universities. UEA is also one of the most important research centers in Europe. It has educated many renowned scientists, economists, writers, and filmmakers, including Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Sir Paul Nurse and literary figures Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian McEwan. UEA is also home to one of Europes largest research centers for environment and climate change.
Interested students are encouraged to send their CV to Jiamin.Ou@uea.ac.uk as early as possible. The PhD positions are for enrollment in September 2019. The application deadline is November 30, 2018.