Postdoctoral fellow in Environmental Science - Hiring in process/Finished, not possible to apply

CEC is seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral fellow within DrivenByPollinators, a five-year ERC project on the effect of landscape-scale land-use intensity on grassland plant communities and ecosystem functioning as mediated by pollinators and herbivores. The Postdoc will have a leading role in the field-based and experimental parts of the project, which will also employ two PhD students as well as taxonomic experts, and participate in the synthesis of the projects findings.

Qualifications
Requirements

• PhD in biology, ecology, environmental sciences or similar
• Excellent theoretical and practical knowledge of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
• Significant experience with both field-based and experimental mesocosm studies
• Significant experience working with quantitative ecological methods, in R or similar
• Skills in performing literature synthesis
• Skills in GIS (QGIS, ArcGIS or similar)
• A good scientific publication record
• Excellent leadership skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Excellent organisational and time-keeping skills
• Driving license (car & light truck)

 Merits

• Experience in studying grassland plant communities
• Experience in generating and analysing multipartite interaction networks
• Practical experience in quantifying plant functional traits
• Experience in collaborating with different research groups, and across disciplines
• Experience in modelling plant-insect interactions
• Experience in communicating with the farming community
• Good verbal communication skills in Swedish

Appointment to a post-doctoral position requires that the applicant have a PhD, or an international degree deemed equivalent to a PhD, within the subject of the position, completed no more than three years before the last date for application. Under special circumstances, the doctoral degree could have been completed earlier.

Fixed-term contract for 2 years.

The most important criterion for evaluating the applicants will be scientific skill. Personal suitability for the project will be of importance.

Your application

Please submit your CV, a copy of your PhD exam, a cover letter and at least two references to former employees/supervisors.

Terms

The University applies individual payroll. Please enter salary claims in your application.