Recruitment & Admissions

The China Emission Accounts and Datasets (CEADs) team brings together scholars from research institutions in China, the United Kingdom, Europe, the United States, and other regions. The team has long focused on the characteristics of carbon emissions in China and other emerging economies, as well as pathways for emission reduction, providing solid theoretical foundations and technical support for low-carbon and sustainable development in emerging economies. The CEADs team will recruit postdoctoral fellows through the Department of Earth System Science at Tsinghua University, and welcomes outstanding young researchers to join.

About the Institution and Team

Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University

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

About the CEADs Team

Led by Professor Dabo Guan, the CEADs team 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 and other developing countries and regions, providing an accurate 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 articles in Nature and its portfolio journals. Its research strength and outstanding contributions in climate change economics and interdisciplinary science have been widely recognized by the academic community.

Co-supervisor

Dabo Guan

Professor

Professor Dabo Guan is Chair Professor of Basic Science at Tsinghua University, Vice Dean of the Institute for Carbon Neutrality at Tsinghua University, and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom. He has long been dedicated to studying the causes, impacts, and responses to climate change, analyzing the drivers of greenhouse gas emissions, and exploring sustainable development pathways with low carbon and low resource consumption at global and national scales. His interdisciplinary research combining natural and social sciences has been widely recognized by the academic community. He has published more than 60 academic papers in high-impact international environmental journals such as Nature, its portfolio journals, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He and his collaborators have received the Leontief Prize three times in different years. He has been listed as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate for multiple consecutive 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 also received honors including the 2018 Global Top 100 Most Influential Papers award.

The CEADs team encourages interdisciplinary collaboration. Scholars are supported in independently selecting research directions in the dual-carbon field and carrying out innovative research. In 2023, 17 members of the CEADs team were selected as Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers, fully recognizing their world-class influence in their research fields and their outstanding contributions to the development of those fields. Representative young scholars include:

Jing Meng is a tenured professor at University College London and a researcher at the Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance at the University of Cambridge. Dr. Meng received a PhD in Environmental Geography from Peking University in 2016 and has long been committed to interdisciplinary research, including climate change mitigation policies, integrated assessment models driven by low-carbon technology innovation, and the socioeconomic impacts of coordinated emission reduction. Over the past five years, Dr. Meng has published more than 50 papers as first author and corresponding author, including co-corresponding author papers, in leading journals such as PNAS, Nature Energy, Nature Climate Change, Nature Geoscience, Nature Communications, Nature Sustainability, and One Earth. Dr. Meng was recognized by Clarivate as a global Highly Cited Researcher in cross-field research for four consecutive years from 2020 to 2023, and received the 2023 Global Environmental Change Early Career Award from the American Geophysical Union, the 2022 Asia-Pacific Innovators Under 35 award, the 2020 Future Leader in Sustainability award, the 2018 Nature Communications Earth and Planetary Sciences Top 50 Frontier Papers award, and the 2017 Environmental Research Letters Best Early Career Paper award. She serves as Executive Editor of the SCI journal Journal of Cleaner Production and Associate Editor of Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.

Zhifu Mi is Vice Dean of the Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction at University College London and Professor of Climate Change Economics. He has made multiple research contributions in integrated assessment modeling of climate change, carbon emissions accounting, and input-output analysis. He has been selected for the Forbes Europe 30 Under 30 list and the Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers list, and has received many honors including the University College London Outstanding Research Supervisor Award, given to one recipient across the university each year. He currently serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the SSCI journal Structural Change and Economic Dynamics.

Yuli Shan is an Associate Professor at the University of Birmingham. He is a contributing author to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, has been selected for global Highly Cited Researcher lists, and has been listed among the Stanford University global top 2% scientists. He has received honors including the University of Birmingham Founders Award, the Green Talents Award in Germany, and the China Top 100 Most Influential International Academic Papers award. He has long been committed to research on carbon emissions accounting, regional sustainable development, and climate change economics, and has published more than 100 papers in high-impact academic journals including CNS portfolio journals. He serves as an editor for Scientific Data, Journal of Cleaner Production, and other journals.

Postdoctoral Research Directions

Research areas include but are not limited to:

1. Development of input-output models, construction of CGE models, climate change risk, environmental policy, climate risk adaptation assessment, and related topics;

2. Development of point-source infrastructure databases;

3. Carbon emissions accounting in urban construction, including energy, transportation, water systems, solid waste, buildings, carbon sinks, and related areas;

4. Development and application of integrated assessment models for climate, environment, and land use;

5. Compilation of SAM tables and IO tables, and socioeconomic and environmental analysis;

6. Interdisciplinary disaster footprint models for climate, health, and economy to quantitatively assess future pathways under different socioeconomic development scenarios.

Tsinghua University Shuimu Scholars

Program Overview

Number of Positions and Compensation Standards

The annual salary is RMB 300,000 before tax. The support period is two years. In addition, selected candidates receive social insurance, occupational annuity, housing provident fund, housing subsidies, and other benefits totaling approximately RMB 123,000; may have priority access to transitional housing or receive a rental subsidy of RMB 42,000 per year; enjoy Tsinghua University policies for children of faculty members regarding kindergarten and school enrollment, as well as medical policies; may handle household registration relocation for themselves and their family members according to the postdoctoral system; may participate in faculty professional training at Tsinghua University; and may apply for funding to attend high-level international academic conferences. Postdoctoral co-supervisors may provide additional support based on the overall circumstances of the applicant. After three years in the position, candidates may apply for evaluation for associate senior professional title.

Application Requirements

Under the age of 35;

About to receive a doctoral degree, or received a doctoral degree within the past three years;

Recommended after interview and assessment by the department;

After entering the university, candidates must work full-time at Tsinghua University.

Applicants planning to enter the postdoctoral station who have received national postdoctoral talent program support, including the Postdoctoral International Exchange Program for incoming fellows or the Postdoctoral Innovative Talent Support Program, may be directly selected for the Shuimu Scholars program upon departmental recommendation.

Current postdoctoral fellows whose mid-term assessment is excellent and whose contract end date is within six months of the application deadline may apply for the corresponding selection round. The evaluation mainly covers academic ability, the quality of the research plan, and the potential contribution of the proposed research to the relevant discipline.

Application Materials

1. Tsinghua University Shuimu Scholars Program Application Form, Part I;

2. Academic and research achievement materials: papers, monographs, patents, awards, or other materials representing the highest academic level and research achievements of the applicant. For papers, provide the full text, and for unpublished papers also provide proof of acceptance. For monographs, provide the cover, table of contents, and abstract. For patents or awards, provide certificates. Scan the materials listed in items 1 and 2 into one PDF file, with a file size not exceeding 50 MB, and send it to the application department email address.

3. Two to three recommendation letters sent directly by the recommenders to the application department email address. The letters must include a recommendation letter from the doctoral supervisor. Current postdoctoral fellows are not restricted in recommender selection. If a recommendation letter is sent as an attachment, it must include the signature of the recommender, who is also the sender.

Interested applicants are encouraged to send application materials to Professor Dabo Guan by email at guandabo@tsinghua.edu.cn as soon as possible to discuss future cooperation directions.

Outstanding young researchers dedicated to scientific research are warmly welcomed to join us.