Tyndall Centre Logo White

PhD opportunities – State of Wildfires project

A wildfire burns on a hillside at night, with the orange flames illuminating the dark sky. Houses and vegetation are visible in the foreground as the fire spreads across the landscape, a scene reflective of trends noted in the 2023-2024 State of Wildfires Report.
  • michael-held-Of-NXuECJbE-unsplashm

The successful candidates will be joining the State of Wildfires Project – an international network of fire scientists tackling the big questions about why wildfires happen and how they impact people and nature.

Predicting and mitigating megafires under climate change

Help us understand if extreme wildfires are becoming more frequent, why the risks are rising, and how those risks might evolve in the future.  Includes a CASE partnership with Daniel Bannister from WTW Research Network.  Find out more here.

Forest Carbon Project Exposure to Wildfire: Global Patterns and Evolving Risk under Climate Change, CASE project with BeZero Carbon Limited

Study the scale of the wildfire threat to carbon offset projects, and helping to quantify current and future risks and to inform policies on how carbon projects are designed and implemented.  Includes a CASE partnership with Niels Andela at BeZero Carbon.  Find out more here.

Smoke Signals: Predicting the health burden of wildfires across the UK and Europe

Help us unravel the impacts of wildfire smoke on public health by studying how rates of hospitalisation and death respond to extreme levels of degraded air quality.  Find out more here.

Closing date: 7 January 2026

 

Other Jobs

Senior Research Associate in Wildfire Research

10/11/2025

We seek a Senior Research Associate to investigate the causes and consequences of extreme wildfires. The role will involve applying machine learning to study the drivers, trends and impacts of wildfire on society and the environment, using cutting-edge environmental datasets such as Earth observations from satellite remote sensing, meteorological and climate data, and mapped socioeconomic, land cover, and ecological information. You will work towards delivering a prototype system for predicting the most extreme forms of wildfire that occur on Earth, including megafires.

Read More »