Postdoc Position: Size Scaling of Environmental-Economic Systems
Job Summary
Investigate how the impact of environmental stressors on ecosystems relates to the size of organisms and communities as part of the ERC Advanced Grant project 'The Power of Size'. The project aims to establish relationships describing the 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 lead author in scientific journals; present findings at international conferences; derive theoretical and empirical scaling relationships linking resource and pollutant flows to the size of systems such as cities and river catchments; collaborate with team members including professors, PhD candidates, and other postdoctoral 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 system analysis, environmental science, socioeconomics, or a related field; experience in systematic data collection, statistical analysis with appropriate software, and describing complex systems by simple equations; good command of spoken and written English at C1 level; ability to collaborate in a cross-disciplinary setting.
What the Employer Offers
Temporary employment contract of one year with prospect of extension for 2 years (1.0 FTE) or 2.75 years (0.8 FTE); salary within scale 10 based on education and experience (€3546—€5538 per month for 38-hour week); 8% holiday allowance and 8.3% end-of-year bonus; dual career coaching; extra days off (30 or 41 days annually with full-time employment); flexible working hours, various leave arrangements, working from home options; opportunities for training and development; good pension plan.
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