CLOSED - Call for researchers - USP Global Cities Program
The USP Global Cities Program has launched its fifth 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.
- Deadline for the submission: December 19, 2022, at 10:00 am (GMT -3);
- Announcement of selected projects: March 9, 2023;
- First meeting: March 23, 2023.
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 six months to one year.
- 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: two years.
12 vacancies are being made available in this selection process. They can be occupied by both post-docs and collaborating researchers, and only one project will be selected per supervisor.
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 |
| Impact of graduate programs in environmental sciences on the 2030 Agenda | All 17 | Carlos Alberto Cioce Sampaio | carlos.cioce@gmail.com |
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Impacts of climate change on urban biodiversity, whether in the context of zoonosis or conservation
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3-14-15 | Carlos Arturo Navas Iannini | navas@usp.br |
| Collaborative and participatory actions for sustainable tourism development | 8-11-12-16-17 | Debora Cordeiro Braga | bragadc@usp.br |
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Relationship between water and sanitation, climate action and quality education post-docs only |
4-6-13 | Eduardo Mario Mendiondo¹ | emm@sc.usp.br |
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Data science for health and urban mobility post-docs only |
3-5-10-11 | Fábio Kon | fabio.kon@ime.usp.br |
| The municipality as the orchestrator of entrepreneurial ecosystems and local innovations | 8-9-17 | Felipe Borini | fborini@usp.br |
| Sustainability in urban public spaces | 11 | Fraya Frehse | fraya@usp.br |
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Sustainable municipalities: cities and gender equality post-docs only |
5-11 | Janina Onuki | janonuki@usp.br |
| SDGs and knowledge translation? Device usability assessment for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda | All 17 | Marco Akerman | marcoakerman@usp.br |
| Socioeconomic and environmental inequality; ways of life, uses, and socio-ecological interactions; public policies and socio-environmental sustainability; territories and social inequalities; social research | 1-2-10-11 | Maria da Penha Vasconcellos | mpvascon@usp.br |
| Tourism | 5-10-11 12-13-17 |
Mariana Aldrigui | aldrigui@usp.br |
| Health and environment: air pollution, urban transport, built environment, climate change | 11-13 | Nelson Gouveia | ngouveia@usp.br |
| Emergency and climate justice, environmental governance, and water security | 6-7-11-13 | Pedro Jacobi | prjacobi@usp.br |
| Circular economy: evaluating the technical feasibility of using textile waste discarded by industries in the manufacture of new products | 12 | Regina Sanches | regina.sanches@usp.br |
| Leisure and sectoral policies: interfaces with the development of cities | 3-11 | Ricardo Ricci Uvinha | uvinha@usp.br |
| Challenges and practices in the universalization of basic sanitation; sustainability indicators in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda | 6-11-17 | Tadeu Fabrício Malheiros¹ | tmalheiros@usp.br |
| Social and environmental justice and access to water; governance and popular participation in social and environmental forums | 6-11-13-16 | Wagner Costa Ribeiro | wribeiro@usp.br |
| Environmental quality; new proposals for environmental sanitation; sustainable cities and communities with an emphasis on solid waste and disasters; sustainable consumption and production, and local and regional development | 3-6-11-12 | Wanda Maria Risso Gunther | wgunther@usp.br |
¹ A professor at USP's campus in São Carlos
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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