17 Postdoctoral Fellowship at Cornell University, United States

The Senior Research Associate will lead planning, conducting, and reporting original research on the ecology and management of fish populations in Adirondack ecosystems, as part of the Adirondack Fishery Research Program (AFRP) team. The mission of the AFRP is to inform fishery and environmental management to safeguard Adirondack aquatic ecosystems. This position serves as the primary liaison between the AFRP, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, and a longstanding network of private cooperators. Our work builds upon nearly 75 years of fishery and ecological data, including decades of whole-lake manipulations (liming, fish stocking, invasive species control) coupled with long-term surveys of environmental conditions, fish populations, and angler catches.

Duties will include oversight of the Little Moose Field Station near Old Forge, New York.  The field station encompasses an experimental fish hatchery, lab space, and temporary housing for AFRP staff and students. Our field operations run from mid-April through mid-November each year, and technical staff based in both Ithaca and Old Forge handle most day-to-day operations. This position could be based in either location, thereby offering scheduling flexibility to balance responsibilities in both places. Supervision of technical staff and summer interns will be expected, as well as effective collaboration with the AFRP Director and our dynamic team of postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and undergraduates. Service to Adirondack stakeholders through education and outreach efforts is also expected.

The National Tutoring Observatory (NTO) is based in Cornell’s Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science under the direction of Principal Investigator Rene Kizilcec. The NTO is a collaboration among Cornell University, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The NTO works closely with tutoring providers, school and district leaders, and education researchers to create the world’s largest open-access dataset of tutoring (the Million Tutoring Moves [MTM] dataset), along with open-source applications that support data processing and analysis grounded in Responsible AI principles. A core part of the NTO’s mission is to develop open data and computational resources for the broader education research and developer community.

The Postdoctoral Associate will participate in cross-disciplinary research and development projects related to learning engineering and AI in education, working with a team of postdoctoral researchers, PhD students, and Master’s/undergraduate researchers across multiple universities and organizations. The research team collaborates closely with an industry-leading engineering team at FreshCognate, which supports tooling for data processing, annotation, and analysis. The research team works closely with NTO engineers to investigate the validity of data-processing workflows, evaluate effective tutoring moves using the MTM dataset, and share innovations and best practices for analyzing tutoring data at scale.

NTO research encompasses (but is not limited to) identifying effective tutoring practices, running experiments on AI tutors in simulated and real-world environments, fine-tuning AI models to classify qualitative data, and building generative AI pipelines to process multimodal data for downstream analysis. Applicants with experience in some—but not necessarily all—of these areas are encouraged to apply.

Cornell University’s Center for Transportation, Environment, and Community Health (CTECH)—a U.S. Department of Transportation Tier 1 University Transportation Research Center dedicated to advancing sustainable technology-enabled mobility for public and planetary health—located in Ithaca, NY, invites applications for a Postdoctoral Associate in Health Systems Engineering (Health Systems Data Analysis, Modeling, Computing, and Cloud-Based Health Systems Analytics and Decision Support Platforms) as part of the CTECH Postdoctoral Fellows program.

This position offers the unique opportunity to conduct deeply interdisciplinary research spanning engineering systems, health informatics, clinical operations, data science, and decision support, contributing to the emerging research frontier of healthcare systems engineering. The Fellow will be jointly mentored by faculty from Cornell Engineering and Weill Cornell Medicine and will engage in research that advances methodological innovation while addressing real challenges in healthcare delivery

The Postdoctoral Associate will lead and support research in:

• Transportation systems modeling and simulation, including O/D modeling, multimodal network modeling, agent-based or behavioral modeling
• Large-scale computing, cloud-native analytics workflows, and data engineering for mobility platforms
• AI/ML for transportation prediction, system optimization, and environmental/health impact modeling
• Deployment of decision-support tools for public-sector clients (municipalities, MPOs, DOTs)
• Urban mobility, equity, resilience, and environmental sustainability analysis
• Software engineering for cloud platforms supporting transportation planning and operations

The position includes opportunities to engage directly with city transportation departments, MPOs, state DOTs, and federal transportation agencies, contributing research that has immediate practical impact.

The Research Associate -Project Lead will play a central role in the strategic and operational delivery of academic research initiatives. This position is responsible for organizing and coordinating collaborative research projects, reviewing and developing detailed project and proposal budgets, and managing work assignments and schedules to ensure timely and high-quality outcomes. In addition to project leadership, the Research Associate actively engages in both independent and team-based research, contributing to the generation of new knowledge within their field. They are expected to produce high-quality academic publications, contribute to the preparation of grant applications and progress reports, seek out new funding opportunities, and foster a collaborative research environment across interdisciplinary teams. This is an academic leadership role requiring subject-matter expertise, scholarly productivity, and strong project management capabilities.

The Research Associate – Project Lead will play a central role in the strategic and operational delivery of academic research initiatives, with a strong emphasis on international dairy sustainability projects. This position is responsible for organizing and coordinating collaborative research efforts, reviewing and developing detailed project and proposal budgets, and managing work assignments and schedules to ensure timely and high-quality outcomes. In addition to project leadership, the Research Associate – Project Lead actively engages in both independent and team-based research, contributing to the generation of new knowledge within their field. They are expected to produce high-quality academic publications, support the preparation of grant applications and progress reports, seek out new funding opportunities, and foster a collaborative research environment across interdisciplinary teams. This is an academic leadership role requiring subject-matter expertise, scholarly productivity, and strong project management capabilities.

The Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities (the Center) at The College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University (Cornell AAP) invites applications for a Postdoctoral Associate as part of the Center’s High Impact Initiative on Just and Equitable Cities

We invite applications from candidates who will have completed their Ph.D. degree no earlier than September 1, 2020, in City Planning, Urban Studies, Urban Design, Architecture, Public Policy, Geography, or a related field.

The College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University (Cornell AAP) includes the departments of Architecture, Art, City and Regional Planning, the Paul Rubacha Department of Real Estate, jointly led by AAP and the SC Johnson College of Business, the multicollege Department of Design Tech, and the Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities. The college spans three locations in Ithaca, New York City, and Rome, Italy, each with world-class facilities and cutting-edge technologies.

Cornell AAP is about acts of transformation. We are committed to reimagining and reshaping the world in new ways, every day. A vital college at one of the nation’s foremost research universities, Cornell AAP brings faculty, staff, and students together from around the world to take up some of today’s most urgent challenges and advance research, inquiry, and collaborative approaches to designing, making, and doing that make a more just and resilient future.

The Postdoctoral Associate will have the opportunity to align with the most relevant academic department in the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning and teach one course per year subject to department needs. The Postdoctoral Associate will be a member of the host department and will be invited to participate in department activities and events.

The Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science at Cornell University expects to have an opening for a Postdoctoral Associate in numerical relativity starting in September 2026. The position requires a Ph.D. and experience in numerical relativity or computational physics. The position is for one year, with subsequent renewals depending on performance and the availability of funds.

The successful candidate will be expected to have experience in general relativity theory. Experience in numerical relativity or computational physics is also required. They are to conduct independent research in the above fields with cooperation of the members of the Astrophysics Theory Group at Cornell. They are to write research papers and reports, participate in scientific conferences and should be able to give professional presentations of research results. Postdoctoral Associates may also participate in the guidance and supervision of graduate students.

The Cornell Relativity Group consists of Saul Teukolsky, Eanna Flanagan, Nils Deppe, Larry Kidder and research associates Mike Boyle and Will Throwe. There will also be opportunities to interact with the Theoretical Astrophysics Group, including Rachel Bean, David Chernoff, Dong Lai, and Ira Wasserman.

MIXTAPE is a country level study of the dynamics of agricultural innovation in Bangladesh. The postdoctoral associate will work on the two main research questions of the project: What is the reach of CGIAR improved agricultural and aquaculture innovations in Bangladesh? How does the adoption of these innovations vary over time and what are the impacts on individuals, households, markets, the agri-food system at large, and the environment?

MIXTAPE will leverage existing national datasets (including remotely sensed data) and will conduct a mixed-methods data collection campaign that emphasizes mapping intervention-specific adoption, adoption outcomes and identifying interactions across interventions.  MIXTAPE engages a multidisciplinary team from five research institutions, led by Cornell University and Bangladesh Agricultural University. With the objective to map adoption, dis-adoption and related impacts, MIXTAPE informs the reach of the CGIAR system in high-priority countries around the world.

Cornell University invites applications for a Postdoctoral Associate to join an interdisciplinary, community-engaged research team exploring housing, aging, accessibility, and smart housing technologies. This position spans Ithaca, NY, and Madison, WI, and supports three interconnected projects:

• Comparative Housing Policy Study – Cross-national analysis of aging-in-place and accessibility policies in Australia, the UK, Germany, and the US.
• ARHAT Implementation Study – Evaluation of the Augmented Reality Home Assessment Tool with home health and aging service agencies in NY and WI.
• Smart Home AR Headset Project – Rapid prototyping and community-engaged testing with housing professionals, health providers, and people with disabilities and their caregivers.

The postdoctoral researcher will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team, contributing to design, data collection, policy analysis, prototyping, and dissemination. Candidates with expertise in any area—policy, AR/VR tools, community engagement, or programming—are encouraged to apply, with opportunities to grow in other areas through collaborative mentorship and team-based learning.