POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS AVAILABLE
The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) Annapolis, Maryland, USA SESYNC invites applications for two-year postdoctoral fellowships that begin August 2014. Fellows will undertake socio-environmental or cyberinfrastructure synthesis projects that will be co-developed with a SESYNC Research Collaborator, who will also serve as a postdoctoral mentor during the fellowship. Synthesis is a research approach that accelerates knowledge production by distilling or integrating existing data, ideas, theories, and methods to draw more reliable or generalizable conclusions and to reveal novel areas of study. Synthesis often involves merging large and/or heterogeneous data sets from multiple sources, researchers, or fields of inquiry, as well as critical analysis in evaluating arguments and interpreting evidence. We seek a diverse group of Postdoctoral Fellows in the social, natural, and computational sciences. Areas of previous research should be relevant to socio-environmental synthesis or synthesis education, including (but not limited to) anthropology, computer science, ecology, education, economics, geography, history, mathematics, political science, psychology, public policy, planning, sociology, statistics, etc. RESEARCH COLLABORATORS Interested fellowship applicants must first submit a pre-screening application, accepted on a rolling basis. Successfully pre-screened applicants will receive the list of SESYNC Research Collaborators; fellowship applicants should initiate contact with potential Collaborators with whom they might be interested in co-developing a synthesis research project. Prospective Fellows are also invited to encourage potential mentors of their choice to apply to be a SESYNC Research Collaborator. The Research Collaborator may not be the prospective Fellow's PhD advisor or mentor. Applications for Research Collaborators are accepted on a rolling basis. SUPPORT Fellowship appointments will be through the University of Maryland, and Fellows must be based at our facilities in Annapolis, Maryland. Depending on their research interests, Fellows may choose to spend part of their time at the offices of our partner organization, Resources for the Future, located in Washington, D.C. The fellowship provides an annual stipend, full University of Maryland employee benefits, and a small annual travel allowance to attend meetings or to meet with collaborators. Fellowships are awarded for a maximum of two years and include structured mentoring programs, facilitated access to policy makers, and opportunities to participate in ongoing Center activities. In addition to mentoring support from their SESYNC Research Collaborator, Fellows will also receive professional mentoring from SESYNC leadership members, and will have access to a wide range of professional development opportunities. MORE INFORMATION Visit www.sesync.org/opportunities/postdoc-2014 for complete details. Deadline: April 15, 2014
