Postdoc Position: Ecosystem Size Spectra Analysis
Job Summary
This position involves investigating the impact of environmental stressors on ecosystems, focusing on organism and community sizes within the ERC Advanced Grant project 'The Power of Size'. The goal is to establish relationships for emission, fate, and effects of pollutants as a function of size across disciplines like hydrology, socioeconomics, toxicology, and ecology.
Responsibilities
- Collect data from databases, reviews, articles, and reports.
- Derive and compare statistical and mechanistic relationships.
- Publish results as the lead author in scientific journals.
- Present findings at international conferences.
- Contribute to Task 3.1 by deriving theoretical and empirical scaling relationships linking species richness, trophic level productivity, and community biomass to size spectra under stress.
- Collaborate with the WP3 team and other project researchers.
- Supervise students and assist in teaching courses at BSc/MSc level (up to 10% of working time).
Qualifications and Requirements
- Hold a PhD degree in ecology, environmental science, or a related field.
- Have experience in systematic data collection, statistical analysis with appropriate software, and describing complex systems with simple equations.
- Possess a good command of spoken and written English at the C1 level.
- Enjoy collaborating in a cross-disciplinary setting.
What the Employer Offers
- Temporary employment contract of one year, with extension possible to 2 years (1.0 FTE) or 2.75 years (0.8 FTE).
- Salary between €3546 and €5538 per month, based on a 38-hour workweek, depending on education and experience.
- 8% holiday allowance and 8.3% end-of-year bonus.
- Options for 30 or 41 days of annual leave with full-time employment.
- Dual Career Coaching for partners.
- Opportunities for training and development through the Graduate School of the Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Science.
- Flexible working hours, various leave arrangements, and the ability to compose employment conditions (e.g., exchange income for extra leave days).
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