Postdoctoral position in Environmental Sciences Germany 2399 views

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral position in Environmental Sciences at the Institute for Environmental Sciences at the Campus Landau/Pfalz, Germany. The appointment is for four years and subject to the German law on fixed-term contracts in science (WissZeitVG).

Salary will be according to 100% of the German public service salary scale TV-L 13.

Environmental Sciences research group investigates the effects of anthropogenic stressors (for example, climate change, toxicants) on river ecosystems, particularly invertebrates, microorganisms and ecosystem processes. You are expected highly motivation and active contribution to research, acquisition of external funding, supervision of doctoral students and teaching (6 SWS).

The establishment of an independent research program linking current macroecological or ecological theories (for example, MTE, Maximum Entropy, Metacommunity theory) with (multiple) stressors, preferably in the focus of the working group, is strongly supported.

The successful applicant will have access to modern equipment and work in a young and interdisciplinary team of researchers

Qualifications:

University degree and a doctoral in an area adjacent to the main topics of the working group. You have an excellent research performance, as evidenced by publications, and you have expertise in one or all of the following areas:

• Ecology of one organism group occurring in streams, preferably invertebrates or fungi, ecosystem processes (e.g. organic matter breakdown),
• Trait-based methods, ecotoxicology, GIS, statistics and dynamic modeling. Experience in the acquisition of third-party funds and in the use of free software (for example, R, PostgreSQL, GRASS GIS, Python) is desired.
• If you have questions, please contact Prof. Dr. Ralf Schäfer (schaefer-ralf@uni-landau.de). It is the policy of the University Koblenz-Landau to increase the percentage of female employees.

If equally qualified, preference will be given to female candidates. Disabled candidates are given priority, if equally qualified. International applicants are highly encouraged to apply.

How to apply:

Applications should include a letter of motivation, a complete curriculum vitae including an overview of software skills, a letter of recommendation and certificates for the announced position from a referee. Please send your application, quoting the reference number 108/2016 before September 30, 2016 to bewerbung@uni-koblenz-landau.de.

We do not send a confirmation of receipt. In accordance to the protection of data privacy all documents will be destroyed after the application procedure. www.uni-ko-ld.de/karriere