The Climate and Sustainability Impact Lab at the Digital Data Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard invites applications for Postdoctoral Fellows for the academic year 2024-2025. This call for applications will support the candidacy of two Postdoctoral Fellows. This is an exciting opportunity to join a new team and contribute to new research.
Postdoctoral Fellow - Climate and Sustainability Impact Lab - Digital, Data, and Design Institute, Harvard University
The Climate and Sustainability Impact Lab is looking for postdoctoral fellows with demonstrated research interests in climate and sustainability. The mission of the Climate and Sustainability Impact Lab is to advance our understanding of how digital transformation and the use of artificial intelligence in management and governance practices deliver measurable financial, environmental, and social impacts.
The Postdoctoral Fellows will work under the direct supervision of Senior Director of Labs and Lab faculty Christian Kaps, Shirley Lu, George Serafeim, Mike Toffel, and Peter Tufano.
The Lab is part of the Digital, Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard. D^3 conducts research at the intersection of academia and practice. For more information on D^3, please visit https://d3.harvard.edu/labs. D^3 is looking for candidates with diverse backgrounds and/or new perspectives. There are no teaching requirements for this position.
Candidates should have some familiarity with some or all of the following:
- Causal analysis and experimental design: difference-in-differences and fixed effects models, instrumental variables, treatment selection, power analysis, analysis of attrition and non-compliance, analysis of heterogeneous effects and interference
- Designing lab experiments, field experiments, and/or surveys
- One or more statistical packages (e.g., Stata or R)
- Creating and managing large datasets
- Machine learning skills
- Ideally, programming/scripting knowledge suitable for processing raw data for analysis (e.g., text manipulation)
If you are interested in the position, please apply at the following link: Postdoctoral Fellow - Climate and Sustainability Impact Lab - Digital, Data, and Design Institute, Harvard University
Michael Toffel
Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management
Harvard Business School
mtoffel@hbs.edu | website | @MikeToffel
Faculty Chair, HBS Business and Environment Initiative
Host, HBS Climate Rising podcast
Co-faculty, HBS Online Business and Climate Change course
Co-Lead, HBS Unlocking Growth with Climate Change Innovation Executive Education program
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