Recruitment & Admissions

The CEADs team at University College London is seeking one outstanding postdoctoral researcher to work on the development of carbon emissions databases, the compilation of input-output databases, the development of economic-energy-environment models, and applied research.

Interested applicants should send a cover letter and CV to jing.j.meng@ucl.ac.uk.

The application deadline is 12 August 2022.

Recruitment Summary

University: University College London (ranked 8th globally in the 2023 QS World University Rankings)

Department: Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction

Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Salary: GBP 36,770-44,388 per year

Term: 13 months (renewable depending on performance)

Location: London, United Kingdom

Position type: Full time

Application Requirements

1. A PhD in environmental science, geography, economics, or a related field, with the ability to undertake full-time postdoctoral research;

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

3. Skills in preparing socioeconomic databases and familiarity with global trade databases such as GTAP;

4. Understanding of interdisciplinary research that integrates natural and social sciences, including links between carbon emissions accounting and global trade, social welfare, health impacts, and related fields;

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

About the University

University College London (UCL), founded in 1826 and located in London, United Kingdom, is a leading public comprehensive research university. It has consistently ranked among the global top ten in recent years and is one of the United Kingdoms long-established universities with an outstanding reputation. In the official UK assessment of university research quality, UCL ranked second in the country, behind only the University of Oxford. It is the founding college of the University of London federation and is one of the G5 super-elite universities alongside the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, Imperial College London, and the London School of Economics and Political Science. UCL is also a member of the Golden Triangle universities, the Russell Group, the China-UK University Engineering Education and Research Alliance, and SES-5.

Supervisor

Associate Professor Jing Meng

Jing Meng is a tenured Associate Professor at University College London and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG), University of Cambridge. Her research interests include climate change policy, low-carbon technology innovation, and the environmental and economic impacts of air pollution. Over the past five years, she has published more than 10 papers as first author or corresponding author in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) and several Nature Portfolio journals. Her awards include a 2018 Nature Communications top 50 paper award in Earth and planetary sciences, a Geophysical Research Letters highly cited paper award, the Environmental Research Letters Best Young Scholar Paper Award, the 2020 Future Leader in Sustainability Award, and Clarivate Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher recognition in cross-field research in 2020 and 2021.