Talent Teams

State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering 2026 Recruitment Announcement

The State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering (the “SKLHSE”) faces the forefront of international disciplines, closely aligns with major national needs, upholds Tsinghua University’s fine tradition of “pursuing excellence at the highest level, grounding in reality, and nurturing talent”, and strives to build a national science and technology innovation base that achieves major original innovations, supports breakthroughs in key core technologies, gathers and cultivates outstanding innovative talents, and conducts high-level international cooperation. Centered on water and sediment regulation and basin protection, the laboratory has established five mission-oriented research directions: hydroscience, river network platform, urban resilience, green intelligent construction, and hanging river governance. It conducts organized scientific research guided by needs, goals, and tasks, driving high-level discipline development and cultivation of high-caliber talents, achieving integrated development of “research-discipline-talent”. The laboratory strives to form an innovation system featuring hydroscience leadership, basin regulation, and hydraulic engineering support, and to achieve strategic, critical, and original outcomes.

In line with development needs, the laboratory is recruiting high-level researchers from both domestic and international sources for 2026. Details are as follows.

I.  Position Categories

1. Chief Researcher

Number of Positions: 1

Requirements: Hold a doctoral degree from renowned domestic or international institutions; possess top-tier academic standing in hydroscience and hydraulic engineering, with extremely high international academic prestige or domestic industry influence, equivalent to professors at top-ranked international universities or chief scientists at national-level research institutions. Demonstrate capability and experience in leading major scientific or industrial projects; have achieved research outcomes or engineering applications with major international impact; possess interdisciplinary integration ability to lead cutting-edge cross-field research; exhibit leadership in uniting teams of diverse backgrounds, promoting integrated R&D collaboration, and effectively driving multi-team joint efforts to solve complex scientific problems and key engineering challenges.

2. Overseas Leading Talents

Number of Positions: Unlimited

Requirements: Hold a doctoral degree from renowned domestic or international institutions; possess formal teaching and research experience at prestigious overseas universities or research institutions; hold positions at or above tenured associate professor or senior researcher/scientist level; meet the eligibility criteria for national-level overseas leading talent programs. Demonstrate outstanding research capabilities and strong innovation; have achieved landmark research outcomes in hydroscience and hydraulic engineering widely recognized by domestic and international peers, with broad international influence; possess the ability to assemble and lead teams in conducting scientific and technological breakthroughs.

3. Overseas Young Talents

Number of Positions: Unlimited

Requirements: Hold a doctoral degree from renowned domestic or international institutions; possess research experience at prestigious overseas universities or research institutions; meet the eligibility criteria for the National Natural Science Foundation of China Excellent Young Scientists Fund (Overseas) or the Foreign Excellent Young Scholars Research Fund. Have achieved excellent scientific research and technological development outcomes in hydroscience and hydraulic engineering recognized by peer experts; possess the potential to assemble and lead teams in conducting scientific breakthroughs and become a leading figure in the field.

4. Full-Time Researchers

Number of Positions: Unlimited

Requirements: Hold a doctoral degree from high-level research universities or renowned research institutions; have achieved innovative outcomes in scientific research, technological development, or major engineering practice; possess the ability to conduct high-level scientific research and technological breakthroughs.

II. Job Responsibilities

The laboratory conducts organized research around five mission directions. Applicants must have disciplinary backgrounds and academic capabilities aligned with the missions. Main responsibilities for each position are as follows.

Chief Researcher: Serve as the chief academic representative of the laboratory’s research team, provide academic leadership, lead one mission direction, organize cross-direction and interdisciplinary joint efforts, and plan and implement research programs with international frontier impact and national strategic support capability. Appointed in accordance with Tsinghua University regulations, and may independently form research teams based on laboratory development needs.

Overseas Leading Talents: Serve as leading talents aligned with laboratory missions, undertake original scientific research and key technological breakthroughs, conduct high-level international cooperation, and produce R&D outcomes with international impact and technological breakthroughs. Appointed through the Beijing Tsinghua Frontier Interdisciplinary Innovation Institute, may independently form and lead teams or join existing laboratory research teams.

Overseas Young Talents: Serve as key innovators aligned with laboratory missions, undertake critical tasks in major scientific breakthroughs, and achieve frontier exploration and technological breakthroughs in specific research directions. Appointed through the Beijing Tsinghua Frontier Interdisciplinary Innovation Institute, may apply to form new teams and serve as team leaders or join existing laboratory research teams.

Full-Time Researchers: Serve as core research forces aligned with laboratory missions, systematically conducting theoretical/technical R&D or engineering application research under the leadership of team leaders. Appointed through the Beijing Tsinghua Frontier Interdisciplinary Innovation Institute, joining existing laboratory research teams.

III. Eligible Personnel Categories

Chief Researcher: Accept domestic transfers, returnees from overseas studies, and personnel from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan (limited to Chinese nationality).

Overseas Leading Talents and Overseas Young Talents: Accept returnees from overseas studies, incoming overseas personnel, and personnel from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan (no nationality restriction).

Full-Time Researchers: Accept domestic transfers, outgoing postdoctoral fellows, PhD graduates, returnees from overseas studies, incoming overseas personnel, and personnel from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan (no nationality restriction).

IV. Position Benefits

1. Compensation and Startup Support

Chief Researcher: Compensation negotiated individually, with no cap on team performance bonuses; provision of startup funding for key independent laboratory projects.

Overseas Leading Talents: Enjoy national-level overseas leading talent salary standards, with corresponding supporting allowances during the appointment period, no cap on team performance bonuses; provision of startup funding for laboratory independent projects.

Overseas Young Talents: Enjoy national-level overseas young talent salary standards, with corresponding supporting allowances during the appointment period, additional team performance rewards; provision of laboratory startup funding.

Full-Time Researchers: Competitive salary provided in accordance with regulations of the Beijing Tsinghua Frontier Interdisciplinary Innovation Institute, with additional team performance rewards.

2. Work Location: Transitional period at Tsinghua University and surrounding office spaces; from the second half of 2026 onward at the Tsinghua University National Key Laboratory Base, Nankou Town, Changping District, Beijing.

3. Other Benefits

(1) Beijing Household Registration: Assist eligible personnel (returnees from overseas studies, outgoing postdoctoral fellows, PhD graduates, etc.) with household registration procedures for employment in Beijing; Hong Kong, Macao, and foreign personnel handled according to relevant regulations for work and residence permits.

(2) Children’s Education: Actively coordinate access to high-quality educational resources from Tsinghua University-affiliated schools.

(3) Talent Housing: Provide guaranteed housing in accordance with relevant policies.

V. Application Process

This recruitment announcement is valid throughout the year. Interested candidates are welcome to send their CV, representative achievements, future research plan, and other materials to the recruitment email: yy-han@tsinghua.edu.cn.

We look forward to your joining us to jointly create a new chapter in the innovation of hydroscience and hydraulic engineering.