Faculty of Humanities, Education, and Social Sciences (FHSE) at the University of Luxembourg, Kirchberg, Luxembourg.

The Faculty of Humanities, Education, and Social Sciences (FHSE) is seeking to appoint a fully funded doctoral researcher to join the project ECOJUST – Ecologically Just Climate Resilient Development. The project investigates how citizen science and participatory research can support climate-resilient development and ecological justice in urban environments. Particular attention is given to understanding relationships between ecological health, human wellbeing and climate vulnerability, especially during extreme weather events such as urban heat, drought or heavy rainfall.

The doctoral project will explore how ecological and human vulnerabilities/capacities can be assessed and represented in ways that support more equitable and regenerative approaches to climate adaptation. The research will investigate relationships between environmental conditions, ecological functioning and human wellbeing.

Research Group on Indigenous Governance of Biodiversity, Institute of Global Value Inquiry (IGVI), Berlin, Germany (Position Remote).

The Institute of Global Value Inquiry (IGVI), founded in Berlin in 2024, is a non-profit foundation promoting intercultural and comparative research into values and norms, with a particular commitment to scholarship based in the Global South. IGVI is establishing the Research Group on Indigenous Governance of Biodiversity. The Group will investigate the values — ethical, philosophical, spiritual, scientific, secular and cultural — that underpin biodiversity outcomes in biodiversity-rich regions of the Global South, and the governance arrangements through which those values become effective in practice. The forces of market enclosure, centralised regulation, extractive industry, migration, and climate change now press on those value systems. The group asks where and why these values prove resilient. It asks how communities adapt them to new circumstances. And it asks which governance arrangements allow them to produce measurable ecological outcomes.

IGVI invites applications for four Research Scholar positions, one in each of: the Amazon basin (Brazil); North-East India (e.g., Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Nagaland and Assam); the mountainous regions of Africa (Kenya/Uganda); the Andes (Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia).

Deadline 6 September 2026.

Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

The Department of Geography at the University of Zurich is seeking candidates at the intersection of climate research and geography. You have expertise in concepts and theories related to climate interactions with respect to present and future environments. You have demonstrable skills in the modelling and analysis of spatio-temporal variability of climate and associated uncertainties. You have experience in integrating climate change scenarios and model outputs in your work (e.g., for informing climate adaptation). Your research shows evidence of open and reproducible research practices, and you have an interest in communicating the results of your work to policymakers and the public. You have a developing track record in terms of research output, acquisition of third-party funding, and teaching and mentoring.

Application deadline 31 August 2026.

Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, College of Forestry, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States.

The Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society invites applications for a full-time (1.00 FTE), 9-month, tenure-track, Assistant Professor (Socio-Ecological Systems of Forested Landscape) position. The department seeks a scholar whose research and teaching examine interactions among people, institutions, and forested ecosystems, including areas such as social, behavioral, economic, organizational, conservation, recreation, climate solutions, or other human dimensions of natural resource management. Candidates who bring interdisciplinary perspectives and innovative approaches to understanding and addressing contemporary environmental challenges through the integration of social and biophysical sciences are welcomed.

Application deadline 1 October 2026.

Leuphana Transformation Lab, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany.

Prepare for the next step in your academic career by joining the the Leuphana Transformation Lab's competitive international Postdoctoral Fellowship program. Focusing on the investigation of major transformation processes that affect contemporary societies, Leuphana has created an international and interdisciplinary hub that offers exciting opportunities to fine-tune your research profile and shape your path in the world of academia. If you have already developed an excellent track record as a researcher and recently obtained your doctoral degree, you might be eligible for a scholarship of up to two years.

Applications may be submitted until 30 September 2026.

Department of Geophysics in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, Stanford, United States.

Applications are invited for a tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level in the Department of Geophysics in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. Applications from any field of geophysics, broadly defined, are welcome.

The successful candidate will teach courses at undergraduate and graduate levels, advise students, and participate actively in the department and school communities.

Application Deadline 19 October 2026.