Socio-Environmental Immersion Postdoctoral Fellowship Program 2019 1508 views

The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) invites applications from early career scholars (≤ 4 years post PhD) for two-year Socio-Environmental Immersion Postdoctoral Fellowship Program beginning August 2019.

About the program:

• Each selected fellow works with a Collaborating Mentor of their choosing that extends the Fellow’s current network of collaborators; the mentor may be affiliated with any organization or institution. Fellows are in residence at SESYNC full time but are provided travel funds to interact with their mentor and attend conferences.
• SESYNC postdoctoral program will steep Fellows in theory foundational to understanding socio-environmental systems and prepare them to conduct interdisciplinary and actionable research.
• Successful candidates will use synthesis methods to address a problem arising from, or associated with, the relationship between humans and nature.
• Priority will be given to projects that have the potential to advance understanding of socio-environmental systems, but the information synthesized may be primarily social or environmental in nature, or some mix.
• SESYNC particularly encourages applications from candidates who will take advantage of ecological or geoscience data sets, ongoing experiments, or modeling results, especially if they wish to link their work with social data or theory.

Eligibility:

• Applicants may hold a doctoral degree in any natural, physical, or social science discipline.
• Candidates must have received their doctoral degrees within four years prior to the start of the fellowship appointment (no earlier than June 15, 2015 and no later than July 1, 2019).
• Candidates who are offered a fellowship but do not complete their PhD by July 1, 2019 will have to reapply.
• Candidates must be eligible to work in the United States. International applicants are welcome to apply; however, please note that we follow University of Maryland visa procedures and requirements; visas are not guaranteed.

How to apply:

Apply online

Note: Pre-screening application deadline: October 24, 2018, 5 p.m. Eastern Time (ET).