Carnegie Mellon University

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The Sustainability Initiative in Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business is searching for a Postdoctoral Fellow. This is an excellent opportunity for the qualified candidate to work with Professor Nicholas Muller on a range of topics at the intersection of environmental economics, engineering, and finance.

Core Responsibilities include:

Participate in research.

Use interdisciplinary tools to measure monetary damages from air pollution and greenhouse gases in both U.S. and international contexts.

Updating and developing rigorous environmental performance scores and indices for major corporations and testing whether these influence firm-level key performance indicators.

Developing models of portfolio construction inclusive of monetary damage from pollution emissions.

Inevitably, as the candidate works on the areas above, novel insights in related areas will emerge.

Present work related to areas above at seminars (informal and invited), and conferences.

Manage communications with collaborators.

Write papers resulting from research activities above. Prepare occasional progress reports for funders.

Interact with graduate students and mentor undergraduate research assistants.

Qualifications:

PhD required

Fluency in econometric software (R, Stata, e.g.) and mathematical software (Matlab ® preferred).

An established record of published papers in peer-reviewed journals among the following areas: general interest economics, finance, environmental economics field journals, and general science journals.