Postdoc Opportunities in Earth Science 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...

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...

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...

Aomori Prefectural Industrial Technology Center in Aomori Prefecture, Japan, is recruiting approximately four full-time research staff members for employment beginning April 1, 2027. The positions are permanent, non-tenure-track appointments equivalent to researcher/postdoctoral roles and cover industrial, agricultural, and forestry research. One position is available in Electronics, Information, and Mechanical Systems Research, involving AI, IoT, mechatronics, software development, production t...

Kobe University invites applications for one full-time Project Assistant Professor, also listed as a researcher/postdoctoral-equivalent position, in the Fluid Geophysics Field of the Graduate School of Science's Department of Planetary Science in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan. The successful candidate will contribute to one or both of two projects: the JST Emergent Research Support Program project “From Earth Fluid Dynamics to Planetary Fluid Dynamics” and the MEXT Next Generation Computational Science pro...

JAMSTEC invites applications for one specially appointed researcher, equivalent to a postdoctoral researcher, in the Cloud-Resolving Model Development and Application Group and Data Science Research Program in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. The researcher will contribute to global cloud-resolving climate model development and application and AI Earth system modeling under projects on extreme meteorology and global water-cycle predictability. Research includes evaluating extreme phenomena and backgro...

Waseda University is recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher / Associate Research Fellow for research in development economics , environmental economics , and related data-driven fields. The position is based at the Waseda University Institute for Contemporary Politics and Economics in Tokyo, Japan , within the Takahashi Sustainable Society Design Project , a project selected under Waseda University’s program for nurturing core next-generation researchers. The project focuses on empirical research ...

Okinawa National College of Technology is recruiting a researcher / postdoctoral-equivalent fixed-term position for the NARO BRAIN project “Development and Supply of Smart Agriculture Technologies.” The work is based in Okinawa, Japan , and focuses on smart agriculture , soil management , agricultural environmental engineering , agricultural information engineering , soil science , plant nutrition , crop production science , environmental agriculture , and horticultural science . The successful ...