Job Description

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW-SOCIAL SCIENCE, MIT Climate & Sustainability Consortium (MCSC)-Impact Fellowship Program, to assume a position for a social science-oriented individual who wants to transcend academia and industry and apply their expertise to near-term change for a more sustainable future.  MCSC Impact Fellows work with MIT researchers and consortium industry members in collaboration with external organizations and communities to implement solutions needed for global economic transformation to address the global climate change and sustainability crisis. Throughout the program, fellows prepare for leadership positions within the sustainability domain in a wide range of contexts and prepare to drive research that advances breakthrough scalable solutions towards accelerated change.  A social science-oriented Impact Fellow will bring a perspective on the social dimensions of climate and sustainability topics important to the MCSC. Such dimensions include equity and agent-centered design, behavior and markets, transparency and accountability, and policy and governance.