Post Doctoral Program
(Portland, Ore.) May 26, 2009 – The Center for Sustainable Processes and Practices at Portland State University has awarded its first three post-doctoral fellowships in sustainability, to begin in the 2009-2010 academic year.
The Center's post-doctoral fellowship program is designed to support PSU initiatives in sustainability by attracting recent doctoral program graduates who have demonstrated both intellectual distinction in prior academic work and a proposal that reflects relevant and significant research to be conducted at Portland State.
Post-doctoral fellows are selected through a competitive application process and receive one-year appointments to the Center for Sustainable Processes and Practices (with the possibility of a one-year renewal). Each will be advancing their personal research programs in collaboration with PSU faculty members. Fellowship recipients receive a stipend and are supported in part by a 10-year, $25 million matching grant by the James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation.
2009-2010 Post-Doctoral Appointments:
Il-won Jung, a native of Mungyeong, South Korea, earned a Ph.D. in hydrometeorology from Sejong University (Seoul, South Korea), and is currently a visiting research assistant professor in PSU's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Department of Geography. Jung will work with Hamid Moradkhani, an assistant professor in the department of civil and environmental engineering, and Heejung Chang, an associate professor in the department of geography, on a project, "Quantifying hydrologic uncertainty in climate change impacts and developing adaptive regional water management in Willamette River basin."
Jung's research will work to quantify the potential impact of climate change on water resources in the Willamette River basin, and to develop and adapt regional water management plans that reflect increasing climate uncertainty.
Renee Lertzman is a doctoral candidate in Social Science at the Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Wales, and a fellow with the Chicago-based Biodiversity Project. The Santa Clara, Calif.-native will work with Jan Haaken, a professor in PSU's Department of Psychology, and Leerom Medovoi, an associate professor in PSU's Department of English and Director of the Center for Public Humanities, on a project entitled, "From Apathy to Agency: A Psychosocial Study of Transition PDX."
Lertzman's study will tackle long-standing issues around environmental communications and outreach that hamper effective responses to issues such as climate change and ecological degradation that require public involvement. She will also investigate how emerging forms of civic engagement and communications practices in community-based initiatives like Transition PDX, a local offshoot of the Transition Town sustainable communities movement, can find success.
Dehui Wei, a native of Jinzhou, China, and a candidate for a regional planning Ph.D. degree from Cornell University, will work with Connie Ozawa, professor in the Nohad A. Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning and co-director of the PSU-China Innovations in Urbanization Program, where Wei is currently a program associate.
Wei's proposal, "Sustainable Urban Planning: From Portland to China," will evaluate sustainable practices successfully employed in the Portland region for potential application in rapidly urbanizing areas of China. Working with Chinese researchers and practitioners, Wei will also study differences—and similarities—in the meaning of "sustainability" from Chinese and U.S. perspectives.
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Portland State seeks to become an internationally renowned university recognized for its excellence in the field of sustainability. We strive to serve as a leading academic laboratory for developing sustainable practices using multi-disciplinary approaches in partnership with businesses, government and non-governmental organizations. Our aspiration is to become the university of choice for faculty and students focused on sustainability, recognized nationally and globally for our interdisciplinary sustainability research and education.
As part of our sustainability initiative, Portland State University’s Center for Sustainable Processes and Practices (CSP2) will award Post-Doctoral positions in Sustainability during the 2009-2010 academic year . Appointments will be for one academic year, starting as early as July 1, 2009, with the possibility of renewal for one additional year.
Please see the below guidelines for full information on the positions and applying. Applications were due March 20, 2009.
- Post Doctoral Guidelines
- Post Doctoral Application - application closed
- Post Doctoral Budget (to be completed by PSU Faculty Mentor) - application closed
