Faculty opportunities – MIT Climate & Sustainability Consortium

The MCSC is eager to continue partnering with faculty across all of MIT, and there are many ways for faculty to engage with the Consortium in both the near and long term. We are also happy to come provide Consortium updates in faculty meetings, within your courses, or other venues.

MCSC Seed Awards

The MCSC works to rapidly scale solutions by intensifying C&S efforts through industry collaboration linked with MIT expertise across interdisciplinary domains. The MCSC Seed Awards Program is one of several ways that the MCSC seeks principal investigator (PI) engagement to link the work of the consortium to ongoing and emerging C&S efforts on campus. Read more about the Program.

Engage with Member Companies

If MIT faculty members have a specific MCSC member company they would like to engage with, we encourage them to contact us so that we can help facilitate meaningful connections. We are happy to discuss collaboration opportunities, and/or ways your work may tie in to key MCSC themes, if that is of interest. Share your ideas with us via e-mail; remember to please provide a few sentences about your work, research areas, or ideas.

Engage with Current MCSC Topics

There will be ongoing areas of focus within the Consortium’s work based on areas of interest among our members. Current areas of interest to the MCSC include:

Tough Transportation Modes
Value Chain Resilience
Circularity
Nature-based Solutions
Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS)
Data & Computing
Social Dimensions
Climate Finance

If you are interested in getting involved with a project, please get in touch through email: mcsc@mit.edu

Mentorship Opportunities (MCSC Impact Fellows Program)

Postdoctoral fellows who are in the MCSC’s Impact Fellows program are helping to drive the work of the Consortium and are also interested in and enthusiastic about the overall enterprise of the Institute. We would love to engage MIT faculty in the mentoring of these impressive Fellows. Please get in touch if this sounds interesting and helpful to you.