Open Rank, Tenure Track Faculty in Environmental Finance and Risk Management

About FIU

Florida International University is a Top 50, preeminent public research university with 55,000 students from all 50 states and more than 140 countries, as well as an alumni network of more than 340,000. Located in the global city of Miami, the university offers more than 200 degree programs at the undergraduate, graduate and professional levels, including medicine and law. FIU faculty are leaders in their fields and include National Academy members, Fulbright Scholars and MacArthur Genius Fellows. A Carnegie R1 institution, FIU drives impactful research in environmental resilience, health and technology and innovation. Home to the Wall of Wind and Institute of Environment, FIU stands at the forefront of discovery and innovation. With a focus on student success, economic mobility and community engagement, FIU is redefining what it means to be a public research university.

Job Information

Open Rank, Tenure Track Faculty in Environmental Finance and Risk Management
Florida International University is seeking applications for an open-rank faculty position in Environmental and Disaster Risk Management, Policy, and Finance. We seek exceptional candidates in applied mathematics, finance, policy, environmental economics, disaster risk modeling, decision sciences, or similar quantitative fields, particularly to collaborate in the development of innovative approaches, instruments, and policies for disaster risk management. Candidates with interdisciplinary research experience and training are encouraged to apply.

The ideal candidate would excel in disaster risk management scholarship, and lead risk policy and finance by interfacing with public and private stakeholders at multiple scales and across risk management institutions. The candidate would contribute to interdisciplinary training as part of the Environmental Finance and Risk Management Program, housed in the Institute of Environment. The program combines mathematical finance and environmental sciences to price, trade, hedge, transfer environmental and disaster-related financial risks, and to devise new financial instruments to mitigate, adapt, and reduce environmental and disaster risk to incentivize resilience and sustainability.

Qualifications

Completion of a PhD in Disaster and Risk Policy, Decision Science, Environmental Sciences, Environmental Economics, Applied Mathematics to the Environmental Sciences, Quantitative Environmental Finance, or a related field is required. Applicants must also have demonstrated teaching and research experience in those fields, preferably involving the natural environment, such as contingent financing for natural hazard preparedness, or financial risk transfer for adverse environmental conditions. Further qualifications include excellent potential in research involving modeling of complex systems, an aptitude to supervise students at the MSc and PhD levels, and a desire to engage in our cross-disciplinary research groups.