The aim of the UCFL is to gain a deep understanding of the complex interplay between urbanization, climate impact and mitigation, with a particular focus on Lower Saxony and its extrapolation to wider contexts. UCFL promotes a close interdisciplinary collaboration between architects, urban planners, landscape architects, engineers, climate scientists, and governance experts who work on achieving a transformation towards more resilient as well as low-carbon urban spaces: The planned research aims to first understand how different settlement types contribute to climate change, and how they are affected by it. Second, partnering with real-world actors, cities, municipalities, NGOs and industry, the research will focus on transformation knowledge: How can the Lower Saxony urban system and its constituting elements be transformed to reduce climate effects and increase its overall resilience and sustainability with application to wider contexts?
The cooperating universities and research institutions of the Urban Climate Future Lab invite applications for eight doctoral and one postdoctoral (UCFL General Manager) full-time positions to start on October 15, 2024.
Our UCFL team is destined to become a diverse and multidisciplinary group of researchers. As UCFL team we stand for a truly collaborative, multidisciplinary and integrative research to promote scientifically founded, co-creatively developed real-world solutions for the sustainable transformation of urban and rural areas amidst a climate crisis. To maximize our impact, we will partner with stakeholders beyond academia.
Detailed information on the scientific programme and the team of involved scholars is found here: urbanclimatefuturelab.de
Application: The details of the respective job descriptions and the associated specific application conditions and closing dates can be found at urbanclimatefuturelab.de/#opportunities
For further general information please contact:
Technische Universität Braunschweig
Prof. Dr. Vanessa Miriam Carlow
Urban Climate Future Lab (UCFL)
SpACE Lab at ISU – Institute for Sustainable Urbanism
Mühlenpfordtstraße 23, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
urbanclimatefuturelab(a)tu-braunschweig.de
+49 531 391-3537, urbanclimatefuturelab.de