Openings and Opportunities

Current Position:

• 1 Ph.D. position with a possible start date in the Spring or Fall of 2025. See details in this link. If interested, please contact Dr. Adebiyi (aaadebiyi@ucmerced.edu)

Our group is always looking for excellent and motivated undergraduate and graduate students as well as postdoctoral scholars. If you are interested in the research that we do, or you would like to talk about possible project ideas, please send Dr. Adebiyi an email (aaadebiyi@ucmerced.edu). In addition, please include in the email your CV and a description of your background and research interests.

Our group strives to provide a supportive and enriching research environment where diversity is a source of creativity and innovation for students and postdocs of all backgrounds, nationalities, races, ethnicities, and sexual orientations. To see some of the outreach programs our group is involved in, click here. Although UC Merced is the newest of the University of California system, it is a designated Hispanic-Serving Institution and the most diverse of all the UC campuses.

For Prospective Graduate Students

Prospective graduates in our group at UC Merced will apply to and take graduate courses in the Environmental Systems (ES) PhD program. For details on how to apply and the application deadlines, click here.

Here is an evolving list of opportunities prospective graduate students can also apply to have their own funding. If you would like to discuss how to take advantage of these opportunities, please send an email to Dr. Adebiyi.

• The NSF graduate fellowship (link, pdf)  - Limited to U.S. citizens and permanent residents.

• The Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) Fellowship (link) – Open to foreign nationals.

Other opportunities include:

• UCAR Next Generation Fellowships (link) -- Two-year award provides financial support for graduate school and two summer visits to NCAR.

Postdoctoral Fellowship opportunities

Here is an evolving list of excellent fellowships for prospective postdoctoral scholars

• NSF postdoctoral fellowship in atmospheric sciences (link) or Earth sciences (link) – Limited to U.S. citizens and permanent residents.

• NOAA postdoctoral fellowship (link) – Open to applicants with U.S. or foreign citizenship!

• University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship (link) – Open to applicants with U.S. or foreign citizenship. See here for other evaluation and selection criteria. An additional benefit of this fellowship is that it provides former fellows with a faculty incentive of "5 years of partial salary support" to any of the UC campuses that offer tenure-track positions.