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

CEC is seeking a highly motivated Researcher within DrivenByPollinators, a five-year ERC project (2020-2024) on the effect of landscape-scale land-use intensity on plant communities as mediated by pollinators and herbivores, located in southern Sweden. The Researcher will have a leading role in the field-based and experimental parts of the project, as well as in the synthesis of the project findings. 

Work duties

• Research within the subject area, specifically within the project DrivenByPollinators
• Teaching in the first, second and third cycles of studies
• Opportunity for training in higher education teaching and learning
• Supervision of degree projects and doctoral students
• Actively seeking external research funding
• Collaboration with industry and wider society
• Administration related to the work duties listed above 

Qualification requirements

Applicants must have:

• A PhD or equivalent research qualification within Environmental Science, Ecology, Biology or similar.
• Extensive experience coordinating and maintaining large landscape-scale field and/or mesocosm projects.
• Very good knowledge surveying and identifying grassland flora and relevant insect fauna (wild bees, flies, beetles) in the study region.
• Good command of advanced statistical modelling and handling large spatials data in R and GIS.
• Good publication record relative to the career length.
• Experience leading literature syntheses (reviews and/or meta-analyses).
• Experience supervising field/lab assistants and degree projects.
• Very good oral and written proficiency in English.
• Excellent documentation and databasing skills.
• Driving license.

Assessment criteria and other qualifications

• Experience in outreach activities outside academia (for example targeting Farmers)
• Experience in maintaining experiments with live plants and insects, including domesticated bumble bees and solitary bees.
• Good knowledge of oral and written Swedish

Consideration will also be given to good collaborative skills, drive and independence, and how the applicant’s experience and skills complement and strengthen ongoing research within the DrivenByPollinators team and the department, and how they stand to contribute to its future development.

Terms of employment
Permanent position with preferred start date 1st of January 2022. The scope of the employment is full time. Please contact Yann Clogh, Professor, yann.clough@cec.lu.se for further information about the position. 

Instructions on how to apply

Applications shall be written in English and be compiled into a PDF-file containing:

• résumé/CV, including a list of publications,
• a general description of past research and future research interests (no more than three pages),
• contact information of at least two references,
• copy of the doctoral degree certificate, and other certificates/grades that you wish to be considered.