PhD and Postdoctoral Opportunities in Transportation, Environment, Cities, People, and AI at The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong

PhD opportunity in Climate & Environmental Epidemiology at The University of Hong Kong , Department of Geography. The opening is for a PhD student starting in Fall 2027 and is supervised by Dr. Yiquun Ma . The project sits at the intersection of Public Health , Epidemiology , Geography , Environmental Science , and data-driven research. Applicants should have a relevant academic background, strong quantitative skills, and experience with R , Python , or similar tools. Good English communication ...

Hong Kong Polytechnic University’s Zhang Group is advertising PhD and postdoc openings in Hong Kong focused on urban heat islands , urban climate prediction , and the impacts of extreme heat on cities. The research combines Earth system and climate modeling (including CESM and WRF ) with machine learning to study how vegetation cooling and advanced heat-mitigating materials can reshape urban environments. A major theme is quantifying the real health, energy, and economic costs of extreme urban h...

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Fellow position in the Department of Geography and Resource Management at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) . The post is part of a research team led by Professor Sylvia He and focuses on transport electrification , especially electric vehicle (EV) charging behavior , charging infrastructure planning , and mobility data analytics . The successful candidate will work on analysing large-scale trajectory and mobility datasets, developing transpor...

PhD opportunity in Climate Change Ecology and Bioacoustics at Rutgers University This opening is for a PhD student to join a field-based and quantitative project focused on how avian communities respond to extreme weather events, with effects moderated by species traits and habitat structure. The work uses data from sites in central New Jersey and across the eastern United States. The project combines ecology , bioacoustics , AI , point-count surveys, and bird identification, with potential invo...

Utrecht University is recruiting a Postdoc in AI-driven Urban (Re)Design for Health within the transdisciplinary ELEVATE project. The role sits in the Faculty of Geosciences , Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, and focuses on building an AI-enabled recommender system that turns scientific evidence into practical urban design guidance for healthier and more equitable cities. The project combines artificial intelligence , geospatial data science , urban analytics , street-view ima...