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Friday, 22 April 2022 POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PRIMORSKA - PROJECT STEPCHANGE

POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PRIMORSKA (UP FAMNIT) - PROJECT STEPCHANGE

Project description:

The University of Primorska is the coordinating institution of the Horizon 2020 project Step change focusing on citizen science for wildlife monitoring.

Field of expertise: wildlife monitoring, ecology, management, conservation, citizen scienc

Terms and conditions:

  • Applicants must have a relevant university education with a completed doctoral/PhD degree and a strong potential in researc
  • Relevant knowledge and willingness to work in ecological statistics
  • Willingness to supervise graduation/master theses, and to promote young scientists
  • Excellent spoken and written English is required. Slovene would be advantageous.

Your tasks:

You should be able to implement a comprehensive approach to combine spatial and presence information with fragmentation of the landscape, timeframe, ecological characteristics of the area etc. You are also expected to be able to run and test models to validate collected data and infer past and future trends and you are expected to contribute to project management. Good communication skills with stakeholder would be appreciated.

We offer:

  • Contract of Employment for full time (40 hours/week) for period untill 30th April 2024
  • The position will be paid according to category of the Collective agreement for employees at Slovenian universities

Application instructions:

Interested applicants are requested to send the application in electronic form to stepchange@famnit.upr.si, and “Postdoc in wildlife management” in the object. Please attach in pdf format:

  • A cover letter explaining your interest in the position and how you fit the description
  • A CV
  • a list of publications highlighting the with five the most relevant ones.

Application deadline: May 15th, 2022