PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Geology in Japan

The Earthquake Research Institute at the University of Tokyo is recruiting four fixed-term STAR-E-NEXT Project Research Fellows to advance interdisciplinary research at the intersection of seismology , information science , and artificial intelligence . The five-year STAR-E-NEXT project uses Japan’s extensive earthquake-related datasets to develop efficient, integrated methods for earthquake assessment, damage prediction, and disaster-risk reduction. The University of Tokyo leads a collaboration...

The Asia Center for Air Pollution Research (ACAP), a research institution of the Japan Environmental Sanitation Center, is seeking a researcher or postdoctoral-equivalent staff member for work on air pollution, air deposition and their ecological impacts . The successful researcher will join the Ecological Impact Research Department and contribute to research supporting the East Asian Acid Deposition Monitoring Network. The work may focus on advanced air observation, ecological impact assessment...

Hokkaido University’s Graduate School of Science is accepting applications for the International Graduate Course for Data-driven and Hypothesis-driven Science (IGC-DHS), supported by Japanese Government MEXT scholarships for the October 2027 intake. The programme supports Master’s and doctoral research using data-driven and hypothesis-driven approaches across a broad range of natural-science fields. Potential thesis areas include mathematics, physics, cosmosciences, Earth sciences, seismology, b...

The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) is recruiting one specially appointed researcher or postdoctoral researcher for its Technology Research and Development Division, Smart Sensing Technology Development Center, Acoustic Data Analysis Group, at the Yokohama Research Institute in Kanagawa, Japan. The position contributes to a project developing continuous monitoring technology for ocean space from the sea surface to the seabed and automatic identification technology ...

The Sugiyama-Badr Laboratory in the Department of Chemical Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo, is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to work on hydrogen production systems and related infrastructure. The research contributes to decarbonizing energy systems and the chemical industry through process modeling, design, and optimization. The researcher will investigate hydrogen production processes and supply chains, develop and apply system-level models, and evaluate low...

The National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management, operating within Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, is recruiting a fixed-term Research Officer for research and studies connected with national land, infrastructure, transport and tourism policy. The successful researcher will plan, draft, coordinate and implement research conducted by the institute, with particular relevance to urban planning, housing, land, roads and rivers . The work sits at the inte...

Chiba University's Center for Environmental Remote Sensing (CEReS) is seeking a specially appointed researcher to develop AI-based intraseasonal and seasonal prediction models. The project targets forecasts from approximately 10 to 90 days and aims to improve their usefulness for social applications such as ship operations. The researcher will work on AI weather and climate modeling that combines machine learning with ensemble data assimilation and physically informed forecasting. The project us...

Hokkaido University is seeking a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Marine Biology, Division of Marine Bioresource Sciences, Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences, in Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan. The project focuses on coastal zooplankton and marine biological research. The researcher will participate in ship-based marine surveys, collect research samples, conduct laboratory experiments, and analyse samples to investigate coastal marine systems. The role also includes budget management a...

The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) is seeking a postdoctoral researcher for the Data Science Research Program within its Information and Earth Science Research Division at the Yokohama Research Institute in Kanagawa, Japan. The researcher will contribute to the CREST project “Connecting Environmental Dynamics Changes and a Circular Economy: Marine Plastic Digital Twins” , led by Principal Investigator Daisuke Matsuoka. The project aims to develop an infrastructure...