Job posting

Job posting
Type of position
scientific
administrative
Target group
graduates
post docs
other
Title
Senior Scientist position in "Biostatistics and Ecological
Modelling" (m/w)
Institution
The Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung (SGN) is a
member of the Leibniz Association and is headquartered in
Frankfurt am Main, Germany. SGN conducts natural history
research with almost 800 employees and research institutions in
six federal states. Within SGN, the Senckenberg Biodiversity
and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F) explores the interactions
between biodiversity, climate, and society.
Position
Candidates are expected to conduct collaborative research in
biodiversity/biological statistics and/or modelling and to
contribute statistical expertise and analyses to a variety of
ongoing or planned projects concerning the analysis of patterns
and dynamics of biodiversity, from population genetics to the
ecosystem level. Candidates should also be willing to provide
basic statistical services. Candidates must have an interest to
work in interdisciplinary teams, including colleagues from
diverse fields, such as evolutionary ecology, biogeography and
geology, as well as from social sciences. It would also be an
advantage to be familiar with datasets concerning environmental
drivers of biodiversity change, such as climate data and remote
sensing data describing land use changes or ecosystem
structure and functioning.
Salary and benefits are according to a public service position in
Germany. The position will be initially restricted to 3 years, with
a possible extension for an additional 3 years and an option for
a permanent contract after that (tenure track). The Senckenberg
Gesellschaft für Naturforschung equal opportunity of men and
women and therefore strongly invites women to apply. Equally
qualified handicapped applicants will be given preference. The
type of handicap should not prevent work needed to conduct the
research. The duty station will be Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
The employer is the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für
Naturforschung.
Responsibilities ---
Requirements
• PhD degree in a relevant field (e.g. evolutionary ecology,
ecology, statistics, population genetics, applied mathematics or
physics)
• strong international publication record
• research experience in interdisciplinary working environments
• experience in biodiversity research
• ability to generate third-party funding
• excellent expertise in R
• expertise in parallel/cloud computing
• excellent oral and written communication skills in English as
well as networking skills
Application
procedure
(deadline etc.)
Please send your application, mentioning the reference of this
job offer (Ref. #11-17001) before January, 31th 2016 preferred
by e-mail (attachment in a single pdf document) and including a
cover letter describing your motivation to apply, a detailed CV
including a list of your publications, names of two references
and pdfs of your 5 most important publications to:
Contact
Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung
Senckenberganlage 25
60325 Frankfurt am Main
[email protected]

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