Recruitment & Admissions

Postdoctoral Research Area

Carbon Emission Inventory Compilation and Accounting

The CEADs team, based at the Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, is recruiting one to two outstanding postdoctoral fellows in carbon accounting and climate change economics. The successful candidates will work on carbon emission database development, simulation and assessment of energy conservation and emission reduction, and the preparation and publication of related grants and reports supporting economic, social and carbon neutrality research. Specific requirements are as follows:

1. A doctoral degree in environmental science, geography, economics, or a related field, with a commitment to full-time postdoctoral research;

2. Experience in building carbon emission databases and strong command of methods for compiling and accounting carbon emission inventories;

3. Understanding of economic principles, knowledge of climate change economics, and familiarity with economic analysis models such as input-output methods;

4. Ability to prepare socioeconomic databases and familiarity with global trade databases such as GTAP;

5. Understanding of interdisciplinary research that combines natural and social sciences, including the intersections between carbon emission accounting and global trade, social welfare, health impacts, and related fields;

6. Applicants with relevant publications and reports will be given priority.

Team and Supervisor

Department of Earth System Science

The Department of Earth System Science at Tsinghua University focuses on global environmental change and sustainable development, and conducts comprehensive and systematic research in earth science. One major research area is the economics of global change, which studies global change issues through new concepts, theories, and methods that combine natural science and economics, and provides technical and economic support for global change decision-making through interdisciplinary approaches and integrated assessment methods.

CEADs Team

The CEADs team, led by Professor Dabo Guan, has long been committed to studying the causes, impacts, and responses to climate change, analyzing the drivers of greenhouse gas emissions, and exploring sustainable development pathways for low-carbon and low-resource consumption at global and national scales.

Accurate and reliable emission inventories are the foundation and prerequisite for implementing emission reduction policies. The CEADs team has built multi-scale carbon accounting inventories and socioeconomic and trade databases for China, developing countries, and regions, providing a solid data foundation for subsequent research.

The team brings together scholars from research institutions in China, the United Kingdom, Europe, the United States, and other regions. In recent years, it has published multiple high-level academic papers in Nature and its affiliated journals. In 2020, the team led by Professor Dabo Guan assessed the economic impacts of global pandemic control policies, offering important insights for economic recovery during the pandemic era. The team has received broad academic recognition for its research strength and outstanding contributions in climate change economics and interdisciplinary science.

For more information, please visit the CEADs website (https://www.ceads.net.cn/).

Professor Dabo Guan is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth System Science at Tsinghua University and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom. His research focuses on the causes, impacts, and responses to climate change, the drivers of greenhouse gas emissions, and sustainable development pathways for low-carbon and low-resource consumption at global and national scales. His interdisciplinary work combining natural and social sciences has been widely recognized by the academic community. He has published more than 200 academic papers in high-impact international environmental journals, including more than 60 papers in Nature, Nature-affiliated journals, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He and his collaborators have received the Leontief Prize three times in different years. He has been a highly cited researcher for many years. His 2014 PNAS paper received the Cozzarelli Prize, recognizing it as the best paper among more than 4,000 papers published in PNAS that year, and he has also received recognition including the 2018 Global Top 100 Most Influential Papers award.

Interested applicants are encouraged to contact Professor Dabo Guan (guandabo@tsinghua.edu.cn) as soon as possible to discuss potential future collaboration directions.