Postdoctoral Fellow in Urban and Regional Climate Modeling
Job Title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Urban and Regional Climate Modeling
University-Level Unit: Arts & Social Sciences
Faculty/Department-Level Unit: Geography
Employee Category: Research Staff
Location_ONB: Kent Ridge Campus
Posting Start Date: 12/11/2026
Job Description
Climate change, from local to regional to global scale, coupled with rapid urban development, is reshaping interactions between climatic processes, cities, and people. This position seeks a researcher to advance fundamental and applied research in urban climate, hydroclimate and regional climate modeling, heat-health impacts, or energy. Depending on the candidate’s expertise, research may examine how cities modify climatic forcing and multi-scale environmental conditions, as well as how climatic forcing affects urban systems, including hydroclimatic extremes, human exposure and health outcomes, and energy demand. The successful candidate will utilize numerical modeling (e.g., WRF or similar), observations, geospatial data, data-driven, and/or AI/ML approaches to better understand these interactions and their consequences across spatial and temporal scales.
Qualifications
Responsibilities
Requirements
This position requires strong quantitative analysis and modeling skills centered on conducting and analyzing output from numerical modeling simulations. Key requirements include:
The QS World University rankings place NUS in the top 15 universities in the world and number one in Asia. In the same rankings the Department of Geography is generally ranked among the top 10 Geography programmes globally. Further information on the Department is available at: http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/geog
This position is available for one year, renewable for a second year contingent upon satisfactory performance. Salary will be commensurate with experience, and it will be aligned with the NUS salary scale. An annual bonus, dependent on performance, is also potentially available, in-line with NUS policy.
Hiring Procedures
Further enquiries can be directed to Prof Matei GEORGESCU. More information can be found at: https://discovery.nus.edu.sg/31796-matei-georgescu
Req ID: 34983
University-Level Unit: Arts & Social Sciences
Faculty/Department-Level Unit: Geography
Employee Category: Research Staff
Location_ONB: Kent Ridge Campus
Posting Start Date: 12/11/2026
Job Description
Climate change, from local to regional to global scale, coupled with rapid urban development, is reshaping interactions between climatic processes, cities, and people. This position seeks a researcher to advance fundamental and applied research in urban climate, hydroclimate and regional climate modeling, heat-health impacts, or energy. Depending on the candidate’s expertise, research may examine how cities modify climatic forcing and multi-scale environmental conditions, as well as how climatic forcing affects urban systems, including hydroclimatic extremes, human exposure and health outcomes, and energy demand. The successful candidate will utilize numerical modeling (e.g., WRF or similar), observations, geospatial data, data-driven, and/or AI/ML approaches to better understand these interactions and their consequences across spatial and temporal scales.
Qualifications
Responsibilities
Requirements
This position requires strong quantitative analysis and modeling skills centered on conducting and analyzing output from numerical modeling simulations. Key requirements include:
- A PhD degree in Geography, Atmospheric Science or Meteorology, Engineering, or a related field
- Excellent programming skills (e.g., Fortran 90/95, Python, Bash/shell scripting) and demonstrated ability to develop efficient computational workflows
- Demonstrated experience with high-performance computing
- Demonstrated experience configuring, executing, and analyzing global or regional climate models (e.g., WRF or comparable modeling system)
- Demonstrated experience managing, processing, analyzing, and visualizing large and complex datasets, including numerical model output
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Demonstrated experience publishing in peer-reviewed scientific journals
The QS World University rankings place NUS in the top 15 universities in the world and number one in Asia. In the same rankings the Department of Geography is generally ranked among the top 10 Geography programmes globally. Further information on the Department is available at: http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/geog
This position is available for one year, renewable for a second year contingent upon satisfactory performance. Salary will be commensurate with experience, and it will be aligned with the NUS salary scale. An annual bonus, dependent on performance, is also potentially available, in-line with NUS policy.
Hiring Procedures
Further enquiries can be directed to Prof Matei GEORGESCU. More information can be found at: https://discovery.nus.edu.sg/31796-matei-georgescu
Req ID: 34983