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Writer's pictureSara Villén-Pérez

Full time 6-month postdoctoral research assistant position in climate change biogeography

Updated: Feb 18, 2021

I offer a 6-month full-time research assistant position associated to the project “Habitability space for biodiversity: applying Liebig’s Law of the Minimum to global change biogeography (CM/JIN/2019-003)” funded by Comunidad de Madrid. The candidate will join the team of Dr. Sara Villén-Pérez at the Department of Life Sciences at the Universidad de Alcalá, Spain.


Tasks:

The researcher will forecast the impact of climate change on the abundance of North American trees and discuss arising ecological patterns. We have ready-to-use climate and vegetation databases (from Forest Inventory and Analysis –FIA- Program) as well as specific modelling procedures available for this task. The work will be developed together with our collaborative research team and the results are expected to get published in a joint paper leaded by the hired researcher.


Conditions:

· Annual gross salary of 31.809 € (1.984 €/ month net).

· Expected starting date: 01/04/2021 (or earlier, if possible).

· Duration: 6 months.


Requirements:

· PhD in ecology, biology, environmental sciences, or related disciplines.

· Programming skills in R with emphasis in large datasets.

· Experience in ecological modelling and climate change forecasting.

· Advanced level of English.


Applications:

Please send your statement of interest indicating your motivation and experience, together with your CV (max. 4 pages) to Sara Villén Pérez (sara.villen@uah.es). Pre-selected candidates will be required to formalize their application at Portal de Empleo I+D+i MCYT.


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