Research Opportunities
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
Use this form for your submission
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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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CLOSED - National University of Litoral, Argentina
Deadline: February 4, 2022 (3:00 pm, Buenos Aires time)
The Institute for Advanced Studies of Litoral (IAS Litoral), through its scientific and social-economic councils, has chosen a prioritary theme for its annual call for scholarships for researchers. In 2022, the subject will be Inhabitating the Wetland, aimed at riverfront cities and wetland cities.
The call for submissions is open to researchers from all areas of science and arts, with a particular interest in projects with a perspective of interdisciplinary dialogue and in people from different parts of the world.
The academic life and activities at IAS Litoral are carried out in Spanish and in English (eventually in French). Scholars are expected to have accredited language skills in at least one of the first two languages, which will allow them to develop their activities properly.
The scholarships have a total duration of three and a half months (September 1 to December 15, 2022). The call is available for consultation here.
Questions and comments can be sent to iealitoral@unl.edu.ar.
CLOSED - Postdoctoral researcher position in the area of quality of democracy
Deadline: December 6, 2021
The Center for Public Policy Research (NUPPs) at the University of São Paulo and the Center for Public Opinion Studies (CESOP) at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) have opened a call for applications for one postdoctoral scholarship (PD). The selected researcher will act within the scope of the thematic project "The Quality of Brazilian Democracy: Political Representation, Parties and the Integrity System" (FAPESP Process nº 18 / 02738-0), under the coordination of Professor Dr. Rachel Meneguello.
More information about the program, including eligibility requirements and how to apply, is available in the call. Information about the project can be found on FAPESP's website.
CLOSED - Postdoctoral fellowship at IEA's São Carlos Center
Deadline: September 24, 2021
From September 16 to 24 registration is open for the selection processes of postdoctoral, master's, and scientific initiation scholarship holders to work in the project "USP in the community: development of integrated systems on food, water, and energy in educational spaces," coordinated by Professor Tadeu Malheiros and financed by the Dean of Culture and University Extension (PRCEU) in the context of the UN SDG Call 02/2021 Social inclusion and diversity at USP and in municipalities on its campuses.
The project aims to develop educational actions that contribute to the SDG 4 (quality education) and, across the board, with other SDGs of the 2030 Agenda through the participation of USP's community and Basic Education agents.
The IEA, through its São Carlos Center, will host a postdoctoral fellow according to this call (Portuguese only). The demand is related to the search for scientific contribution in the development, implementation, and validation of educational kits for teaching sustainability, consisting of a system for using rainwater, solar energy, vegetable garden, and composting, in formal and non-formal spaces of Basic Education learning, as a living laboratory for research, teaching, and extension. Educational materials will be developed and fostered with the aim of disseminating knowledge and skills, and promoting culture for sustainable development. The expect results are to contribute to the sustainable production of food in the school community and its surroundings, disseminate knowledge about the sustainable system to different audiences, involve USP in the undertaking of actions that have a social impact on the community, and reduce social inequalities regarding the accessibility of food, water, and energy.
More information about the program, including other open calls, are available here (Portuguese only).
Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowships in the History of Art
Deadline: October 27, 2021
The American Council of Learned Societies invites applications for Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowships in the History of Art. The fellowships support an academic year of research by early career scholars from around the world for projects that will make substantial and original contributions to the understanding of art and its history.
There is special interest in supporting scholars who have been trained at/are affiliated with institutions of all types from all regions of the world, and who bring perspectives and backgrounds that are historically underrepresented in the field of art history.
The ACLS will award up to 10 fellowships for the 2022-23 academic year, each carrying a stipend of $60,000, plus $5,000 for research and travel during the award period. The fellowships are portable: a fellow may elect to take up the award at any appropriate site for the work proposed, including abroad. Awards also include a one-week residency at the Getty Research Institute following the fellowship period.
The program encourages diverse, international perspectives and welcomes applications from scholars worldwide, without restriction as to citizenship, country of residency, or employment. Scholars who are citizens of countries other than the United States are especially encouraged to apply, as are scholars who have experience studying, teaching, and/or conducting art historical research in non-US contexts.
More information about the program, including eligibility requirements and how to apply, is available here. Questions may be directed to fellowships@acls.org.