PhD Opportunity in Climate & Environmental Epidemiology at The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong

Samuel Cai and colleagues at the Centre for Environmental Health and Sustainability, University of Leicester are recruiting PhD students for a 2027/28 start. The post highlights two studentships within an expanding environmental and climate health research programme. Opportunity 1: Healthy respiratory ageing Project focus: why some people maintain healthy lungs as they age, using large-scale human data to study the genetic, lifestyle, and environmental determinants of healthy respiratory ageing....

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...

We are hiring a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Environmental Epidemiology at Tulane University , in collaboration with the University of Southern California and Kaiser Permanente Southern California . This NIH R01-funded project will examine how prenatal exposure to extreme heat and wildfire smoke may affect autism spectrum disorder and early-life neurodevelopment using a large pregnancy cohort and high-quality electronic health record data. The fellowship offers research training in environmen...

Funded PhD opportunity at Hong Kong Baptist University in the Department of Geography . The project focuses on palm oil supply chains , sustainability , and tropical forest conservation . The research is described as primarily quantitative and data-driven , using supply-chain, spatial, environmental, and other datasets. Fieldwork may also be part of the project. Suitable applicants may come from geography , sustainability science , ecology , conservation , or other interdisciplinary environmenta...

PhD opportunity in wildfire research and data science at the City College of New York in the Department of Civil Engineering. The project focuses on spatiotemporal analysis of large datasets related to wildland fires, with possible directions including modeling wildfire ignition causes using geographic, meteorological, and environmental factors, and studying wildfire impacts on the built environment such as buildings and infrastructure. This opening sits at the intersection of civil engineering ...