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Chancellor's Fellowships in GeoSciences
The University of Edinburgh intends to appoint up to 100 Chancellor’s Fellowships across the University’s 22 Schools as an investment in the future of teaching and research. These prestigious awards are aimed at early-career individuals of exceptional potential who have begun to establish a reputation for the highest quality research at the forefront of their discipline and who have a commitment to learning and teaching at university level.
The School of GeoSciences envisages making up to 5 Chancellor’s Fellowship appointments. Outstanding applicants in any area of the School’s research activity are encouraged to apply. However, we are particularly interested in researchers with a demonstrated track record in addressing the following strategic growth areas in the School, and those with the skills and interest to flourish in an interdisciplinary environment. Although research excellence is the main criteria for appointment, we will also consider potential teaching ability, and balance across the School.
Geography and the Lived Environment:
Research into the inter-relationships between people, society and the environment. Priority areas include:
• Nature, society and environmental knowledge
• Health, risk and the environment
• Land system science
• Carbon economy and accounting
• Urban marginality and peripherality
Global Change
Generating scientific understanding of past, present and future changes in the Earth system through measurements, theory, and computational modelling. Priority areas include:
• Remote sensing of the Cryosphere or of atmospheric composition.
• Contemporary changes in ocean biogeochemistry and their biological and ecological impacts.
• The use of cosmogenic isotopes to understand landscape dynamics.
• Physical oceanography relevant to Cryosphere-ocean-climate interactions
• Ecosystem biodiversity
Earth and Planetary Science
Geology and geophysics relevant to resources, natural hazards, earth dynamics and the environment. Priority areas include:
• Earth Resources: water, hydrocarbons, geothermal energy, ores, minerals and using the Earth’s subsurface as a storage resource for nuclear waste, carbon dioxide, or other substances.
• Natural Hazards: earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides
• Earth Dynamics and Evolution
More Information and How to Apply
Substantial mentoring and development support will be available through and beyond the Fellowship period. Closing dates: 16th January, 29th February and 16th April 2012.
This article was published on Dec 7, 2011