CLOSED - Call for researchers - USP Global Cities Program
The USP Global Cities Program has launched its fourth public call for postdoctoral researchers and collaborators. The objective is to contribute to the improvement of research, and to 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 selected projects may be developed at the Institute's headquarters in São Paulo or at its centers in Ribeirão Preto and São Carlos.
- Deadline for the submission: November 29, 2021, at 3:00 pm (GMT -3);
- Announcement of selected projects: February 14, 2022;
- First meeting: March 24, 2022.
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 5 years.
- 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 40 hours per week.
- Duration: the collaborator researcher can develop the same research project for up to 5 years.
Financing
This call will not grant scholarships to selected researchers.
List of themes and supervising researchers at USP Global Cities
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 |
| Environment, health, and sustainability in cities; urban management and sustainability | 3-6-11-13-17 | 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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15 | Carlos Arturo Navas Iannini | navas@usp.br |
| New post-COVID jobs accelerated with water diplomacy for resilient solutions in low impact development under global change | 1-2-3-4-5-6-7 8-9-10-11-12 13-14-15-16 17 |
Eduardo Mario Mendiondo¹ | emm@sc.usp.br |
| Water security in the face of global climate change | 3-6-10-11-13 17 |
Edson Cezar Wendland¹ | ew@sc.usp.br |
| Computing and data science applied to urban problems | 1-3-4-5-10-11 | Fábio Kon | fabio.kon@ime.usp.br |
| Sustainability in urban public spaces | 11 | Fraya Frehse | fraya@usp.br |
| Internet of things | 2-4-7-9-10-11-13 | Marcelo Knorich Zuffo | mkzuffo@usp.br |
| Ethanol as renewable energy in cities; urban afforestation | 7-11 | Marcos Buckeridge | msbuck@usp.br |
| Socioeconomic and ecologically sustainable alternatives in local and regional development | 8-10-11-12-15 | Maria da Penha Vasconcellos | mpvascon@usp.br |
| Health and environment: air pollution, urban transport, built environment, climate change | 11-13 | Nelson Gouveia | ngouveia@usp.br |
| Multifunctional landscapes with nature-based solutions for green infrastructure | 9-11-13 | Paulo Pellegrino | prmpelle@usp.br |
| Environmental quality, gender, and walkability in degraded urban areas | 3-5-11 | Roberta Consentino Kronka Mulfarth | rkronka@usp.br |
| Health and well-being, quality education, gender equality | 3-4-5 | Roseli de Deus Lopes | roseli.lopes@usp.br |
| Universalization of sanitation | 6-10-11-13 | Tadeu Fabrício Malheiros¹ | tmalheiros@usp.br |
| Urban infrastructure, public services, and city management: legal and administrative aspects | 6-9-11-16 | Thiago Marrara de Matos² | marrara@usp.br |
| Social and environmental justice and access to water; governance and popular participation in social and environmental forums | 6-11 | Wagner Costa Ribeiro | wribeiro@usp.br |
| Environmental sanitation; sustainable cities and communities with an emphasis on solid waste and disasters; responsible consumption and production | 6-11-12 | Wanda Maria Risso Gunther | wgunther@usp.br |
| Subnormal agglomerates, water supply indices in Brazil and health conditions in its macro-regions | 6 | Wanderley da Silva Paganini | paganini@usp.br |
¹ A professor at USP's campus in São Carlos
² A professor at USP's campus in Ribeirão Preto
Submit your project
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Important Selected candidates must develop a strategic action plan for the period of their research project's conduction, consisting of activities distributed in the following axes:
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