Recruitment & Admissions

Recruitment Overview

The China Emission Accounts and Datasets (CEADs) team led by Professor Guan Dabo 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 and on pathways for emission reduction, providing a solid theoretical basis and technical support for low-carbon and sustainable development in emerging economies. Supported by Tsinghua University's Department of Earth System Science and Institute for Carbon Neutrality, the CEADs team is recruiting postdoctoral fellows and research assistants. Outstanding young talents are welcome to apply.

Institution and Team Introduction

1. Introduction to the Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University

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

2. Introduction to Professor Guan Dabo's team

The CEADs team led by Professor Guan Dabo 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 for global and national low-carbon and low-resource consumption. Accurate and reliable emissions 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 accurate data support 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-quality academic papers in Nature and its sub-journals, and its research strength and outstanding contributions in climate change economics and interdisciplinary science have been widely recognized by the academic community.

3. Introduction to the cooperating supervisor

Professor Guan Dabo is Chair Professor of Basic Science at Tsinghua University, Vice President 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 studied the causes, impacts and responses to climate change, analyzed the drivers of greenhouse gas emissions, and explored sustainable development pathways for global and national low-carbon and low-resource consumption. 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, including Nature, its sub-journals and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Together with collaborators, he has won the Leontief Prize three times in different years. He has been named a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher for multiple consecutive years. His 2014 paper in PNAS received the Cozzarelli Prize, awarded to one of the best papers among more than 4,000 papers published in PNAS that year. Since 2018, he has been continuously selected as a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher. His honors include the Cozzarelli Prize, the 2018 and 2020 Top 100 Most Influential International Academic Papers awards, and the 2024 Xplorer Prize.

Research and Work Areas

I. Postdoctoral Research Positions

Research areas include but are not limited to:

Input-output model development, CGE model construction, climate change risks, environmental policy, climate risk adaptation assessment and related topics;

Development of point-source infrastructure databases;

Carbon emission accounting in urban construction, including energy, transport, water systems, solid waste, buildings, carbon sinks and related areas;

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

Compilation of SAM tables and IO tables, and social, economic and environmental analysis;

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

II. Research Assistant Positions

Work areas include but are not limited to:

Assisting the research group with research and project work related to carbon neutrality, sustainable development and regional low-carbon development.

Completing data organization, information synthesis and special-topic research tasks.

Participating in the drafting and revision of external English documents, and assisting with the review of English materials and manuscripts related to international activities.

Assisting with project applications, international exchanges and cooperation, and Chinese and English external liaison work for the research group.

Assisting with the daily operation of the Tsinghua University-Envision Indonesia Sustainable Development Center, and supporting major events and international conferences.

Completing other supporting tasks assigned by supervisors.

Application Method

Interested applicants should send the following materials to Professor Guan Dabo at guandabo@tsinghua.edu.cn by December 20, 2025 to discuss future cooperation directions.

1. English CV

2. Personal statement: research interests and research experience (1 page, in English)

3. Research proposal (3 pages, in English)