Postdoctoral Research Associate/Fellow Job profile

at  University of Exeter

SALARY

The starting salary for Associate will be from £32,982 on Grade E. The starting salary for Fellow will be from £41,732 on Grade F, depending on qualifications and experience.

JOB REFERENCE

P91043
Job Description P91043.pdf
Job description

THE POST

We are seeking researchers with quantitative backgrounds in one or more areas including, but not limited to process-based modelling of the environment and environment-economy interactions, data science, agricultural economics or science, ecological, climate or other natural science. We are keen to hire researchers that want to join forces with an interdisciplinary team to develop the evidence, analyses and tools needed to address the major environmental and related economic challenges facing humanity in the 21st Century including: climate change; biodiversity loss, environmental pollution and food security.
You will join a team actively working in this domain with research themes that include: the trade-offs between land use, food and the environment; landscape portfolio optimisation; synthesis of large datasets for modelling and the development of digital twins of the environment; risk analysis; uncertainty quantification for complex models; development of decision support systems; environment related welfare and distribution challenges including access to high quality environments; and many others. You will collaborate with the LEEP team in delivering research outputs in these themes and have the opportunity to develop your own research in these or related areas.
LEEP is dedicated to generating high-quality, internationally-acclaimed research outputs, publications and impactful contributions. We are keen to develop the careers of researchers by supporting your research publications and CV development and have a very strong record of assisting staff from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds into long term research and academic positions.

We welcome applications from a broad range of disciplines, recognising the importance of interdisciplinary working to provide a comprehensive understanding of environment-economic interactions. We are looking for colleagues to add to, extend or complement the work of LEEP across a range of areas. As such the LEEP team invite applications from candidates with strong skills in one or more of the following areas:

• Process-based (structural) modelling of the environment, economy or environment-economy interactions.
• Data analysis, fitting of statistical or machine learning models (particularly spatio-temporal methods), data processing and visualisation.
• Agricultural systems, agricultural economics and associated policy environment.
• Working in an interdisciplinary team and engaging with non-academic stakeholders to guide the design of decision support tools.

Two posts are available immediately due to additional funding becoming available. The main purpose of the posts is to conduct applied research to translate academic science into environmental, economic and social benefits.

THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER

We are a member of the prestigious Russell Group of research-intensive universities and in the top 200 universities in the world (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024 and QS World University Ranking 2024). We combine world-class teaching with world-class research, achieving a Gold rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework Award 2023, underpinned by Gold ratings for Student Experience and Student Outcomes.
Our world-leading research impact has grown more than any other Russell Group university in recent years, and we are home to some of the world’s most influential researchers, seeking to answer some of the most fundamental issues facing humankind today. More than 99 percent of our research is of international quality and 47 percent is world-leading (2021 Research Excellence Framework).
We encourage proactive engagement with industry, business and community partners to enhance the impact of research and education and improve the employability of our students. Read about our world leading research – Green Futures and how we are transforming education for a changing world. We are located in a beautiful part of the country and Exeter (a fast growing tech hub) is one of only a few UK cities to have been designated as a UNESCO Creative City