Call for researchers
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The USP Global Cities Program is launching its second public call for postdoctoral researchers and collaborators. The objective is to contribute to the improvement of research, and the scientific and technological excellence of the University, as well as to enable the formation of groups of national and foreign researchers focused on urban issues, integrating networks of studies and international research. The generation of applications, experiments, and solutions that become subsidies for the necessary transformations in the urban context is seen as a desirable consequence of the participation of new researchers in the program.
The researchers should present an inter- and transdisciplinary perspective in their projects, intensifying the dialogue and interaction between social and human sciences, experimental sciences such as mathematics and computing, physics, chemistry, biology, and all their technological aspects, and environmental sciences and sustainability. The proposals should consider the complexities of cities and the 2050-projection.
Since the IEA-USP is an interdisciplinary environment, the participants will be given the possibility of developing innovative research projects, establishing academic connections, and entering the various research networks to which the Institute and other units are related.
The deadline for the submission of projects is November 22, 2019, at 3:00 pm (GMT -3).
Programmes
Postdoctoral Programme
Its general objective is to improve the level of the scientific and technological excellence at USP. Its specific goal is to further enhance advanced research skills of postdoctoral researchers under the supervision of an experimented researcher who needs to be a faculty member. The submitted projects have to be carried out in schools, institutes, museums, and other bodies belonging to the university.
- Duration: from 6 months to 2 years. Extensions are possible.
- Minimum workload: 20 hours per week; total of 960 hours
Research Collaborator Programme
Its objective is to stimulate the collaboration between researchers of USP and external faculty and non-faculty academics. The submitted projects have to be carried out in schools, institutes, museums, and other bodies belonging to the university. The collaboration proposal has to be submitted by a USP faculty member.
- Applications must be submitted by an USP professor to the IEA-USP Research Committee.
- Workload: minimum of 12 and maximum of 20 hours per week.
- Duration: the collaborator researcher can develop the same research project for up to 5 years.
Financing
Participations in both programmes can be developed with or without a scholarship. It will be up to the interested party to indicate the chosen programme and submit an application to the funding agencies.
Schedule
Projects without funding
- Registration: October 8 - November 22, 2019
- Result: March 12, 2020
- Start date: March 26, 2020
Funded projects
- Registration: October 8 - November 22, 2019
- Continuous flow of result dissemination, depending on the response of the funding agencies
- Start date: March 26, 2020
Please consult the supervisors before submitting a proposal
| Topic | Involved Sustainable Development Goals | Supervisor | |
| Environmental planning with interface to urban planning | 6-11-13-15 | Amarilis Lucia Casteli Figueiredo Gallardo | amarilisgallardo@usp.br |
| Educommunication as an instrument of awareness and dissemination of sustainable public policies; cultural diversity, self-organization and peripheral cultures in large cities; big data in search of sustainability and big cities | 4-10-11 | Anderson Vinicius Romanini | vinicius.romanini@usp.br |
| Environment, health, and sustainability in cities; urban management and sustainability | 3-6-11-13 | Arlindo Philippi Jr | aphij@usp.br |
| Sustainable cities and communities | 11 | Brenda Chaves Coelho Leite | brenda.leite@poli.usp.br |
| Promotion of healthy lifestyle through diet and physical activity | 3-11 | Bruno Gualano | gualano@usp.br |
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Urban fauna: ecophysiological diversification in the colonization of urban environments
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11-15 | Carlos Arturo Navas Iannini | navas@usp.br |
| Urban cargo distribution focusing on sustainable cities and communities; improvement of the traffic light network in the city of São Paulo | 9-11 | Claudio Barbieri da Cunha | cbcunha@usp.br |
| Computing and data science focused on health, gender equality, and sustainable cities and communities | 3-5-11 | Fábio Kon | fabio.kon@ime.usp.br |
| Non-formal education and social education, community intervention and development, educator's role and practices, professional training and performance, leisure and culture, educating cities | 4-11 | Juliana Pedreschi Rodrigues | julianaprodrigues@usp.br |
| Relationship between crime patterns and urban infrastructure, crime prediction, and mobility | 11-16 | Luis Gustavo Nonato | gnonato@icmc.usp.br |
| Intersectorial management; community-based participatory research; social determination of health and equity | 3-11-13 | Marco Akerman | marcoakerman@usp.br |
| Ethanol as renewable energy in cities | 7-11 | Marcos Buckeridge | msbuck@usp.br |
| Socioeconomic and ecologically sustainable alternatives in local and regional development from the perspective of the SDGs | 2-8-10-11-12 13-15 | Maria da Penha Vasconcellos | mpvascon@usp.br |
| Tourism and sustainability | 1-4-5-8-9-10 11-12-16-17 | Mariana Aldrigui | aldrigui@usp.br |
| Health and environment: air pollution, urban transport, built environment | 11-13 | Nelson Gouveia | ngouveia@usp.br |
| Green infrastructure with nature-based solutions for multifunctional landscapes | 6-11-13-15 | Paulo Pellegrino | prmpelle@usp.br |
| Environmental governance in cities | 11-17 | Pedro Roberto Jacobi | prjacobi@usp.br |
| Clean and affordable energy; sustainable cities and communities; actions against global climate change | 7-11-13 | Roberta Consentino Kronka Mulfarth | rkronka@usp.br |
| Housing and urban environment: poverty eradication, health and well-being, water and sanitation, reduction of inequalities | 1-3-6-10 | Suzana Pasternak | suzanapasternak@gmail.com |
| Sustainability indicators applied to the context of the SDGs; sanitation sector resilience to climate change and extreme weather events | 6-10-11-13 | Tadeu Fabrício Malheiros | tmalheiros@usp.br |
| Climate change in cities | 11-13 | Tércio Ambrizzi | tercio.ambrizzi@iag.usp.br |
| Urban agriculture and composting; health, green areas, microplastics, and air pollution | 6-11-15 | Thais Mauad | tmauad@usp.br |
| Drinking water and sanitation; action against global climate change; partnerships and means of implementation | 6-11-13-17 | Wagner da Costa Ribeiro | wribeiro@usp.br |
| Sanitation; sustainable cities; responsible consumption and production; fight against climate change | 6-11-12-13 | Wanda Maria Risso Gunther | wgunther@usp.br |
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