Academic & staff positions for Climate Systems Engineering

The University is building a world-leading Climate Systems Engineering initiative with multiple faculty hires addressing solar geoengineering, open-system carbon removal such as enhanced weathering, and interventions to limit loss of glacial ice. We seek individuals who will lead research programs that will produce significant contributions to their field and to this research initiative.

Faculty Jobs

CSEi is recruiting for targeted searches in partnership with specific academic units as well as for university wide searches that are open to scholars from all relevant disciplines including the physical and biological sciences, social sciences, engineering, and humanities. If you don’t see a targeted search in your field, reach out to a UChicago colleague in your discipline to express your interest in a position joint with CSEi.
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Assistant Professors – Ecological Consequences of Climate Engineering

The University of Chicago's Department of Ecology & Evolution in the Biological Sciences Division and the Climate Systems Engineering Initiative (CSEi) are searching for tenure-track Assistant Professors in ecology.
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Assistant Professor, Climate Systems Engineering initiative (CSEi)

The University of Chicago invites applications from scholars who will make significant contributions to Climate Systems Engineering.
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Associate Professor/Professor (Open Rank), Climate Systems Engineering initiative (CSEi)

The University of Chicago invites applications for multiple faculty positions (tenured associate or full professor) from scholars who will make significant contributions to Climate Systems Engineering.
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Assistant /Associate/Full Professor – Experimental Aspects of Climate Systems Engineering Environmental Geoscience

The Department of the Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago invites applications for tenured faculty positions from scholars who will make significant contributions to the experimental aspects of Climate Systems Engineering.
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Faculty Position, TechnoEconomic Analysis/LCA for Energy & Climate Engineering Technologies (Open Rank)

The Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering invites applications for multiple faculty positions at the intersection of technoeconomic analysis (TEA), life cycle analysis (LCA), and emerging energy and climate engineering technologies (TEA/LCA Energy and Climate Engineering Technologies).

CSEi Research Positions

CSEi is recruiting scholars to engage in translational research that impacts the development and governance of climate engineering technologies in the public interest. Under the guidance of the Research Director and Oversight Committee with at least one other member of the CSEi Executive Committee, appointments will be made in the Department of the Geophysical Sciences.
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Research Scientist in Geophysical Sciences

The Department of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago invites applications for the position of Research Scientist, working in the Climate Systems Engineering initiative (CSEi) with Professor B. B. Cael.

Postdoctoral Researchers

CSEi recruits for postdoctoral scholars working on specific projects with leading faculty and for an annual Postdoctoral Researchers Program (Research Fellows) that will hire a cohort of researchers from across disciplines.
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Postdoctoral Scholar – Glacial Systems Engineering Research

The Climate Systems Engineering Initiative (CSEi), a pillar of the University of Chicago’s Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth, is accepting applications for a postdoctoral scholar to join an interdisciplinary research team to develop strategies for engineered intervention into ice...
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Postdoctoral Scholar/Research Scientist – AI weather forecasting across scales

The University of Chicago’s Human-centered Weather Forecasting (HCF) Initiative and Climate Extremes Theory and Data (CeTD) group invite applications for multiple postdoctoral fellow and research scientist positions to work with Prof. Pedram Hassanzadeh and a group of multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary collaborators on advancing AI weather forecasting across...

Staff Positions

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Director, Research Development – Climate Systems Engineering initiative

The Climate Systems Engineering initiative seeks an experienced Director of Research Development to provide technical and intellectual leadership to the suite of CSEi research activities across its focal areas of open-systems carbon removal, sunlight reflection methods and local interventions to...

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