Post-doctoral fellowship in Island biogeography of mutualistic networks in the Anthropocene

Details

GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark are looking for a highly-motivated and dynamic researcher for a 3 year postdoc position, commencing 1st of January 2021.

Role title: Post-doctoral Fellow

Organisation: GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Closing Date: 13/09/2020

Role Location: Copenhagen & Caribbean

Role Description

We are looking for a highly-motivated and dynamic researcher for a 3 year postdoc position, commencing 1st of January 2021.

Our group and research

The successful candidate will be part of the Dalsgaard Group (https://globe.ku.dk/research/cmec/dalsgaard-group/) within the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate (CMEC) at the GLOBE Institute. CMEC is a center of excellence with a cross-disciplinary research program. We offer creative and stimulating working conditions in a dynamic and international research environment addressing fundamental questions on the origin, maintenance, conservation and future of life and biological diversity on Earth. The 40+ researchers at CMEC currently represent 14 different nationalities and the working language is English. The center juxtaposes faculty staff scientists from the fields of macroecology, historical biogeography, oceanography, evolutionary biology, community ecology, population biology, climate change research, conservation biology and environmental economics.

Project description and your job

This project is novel in integrating island biogeography theory and theories on how climate and anthropogenic pressures influence mutualistic plant-pollinator and seed-disperser interactions. The project combines field work data collected in the Caribbean with network analysis and biogeographical modelling. Your tasks would be to work closely together with a PhD-student to jointly lead data collection across numerous islands in the Caribbean. You should be prepared to collect data for approximately 4-5 months in both 2020 and 2021. You would be expected to first-author several papers in international peer-reviewed journals. In addition to the postdoc position, we will hire a PhD-student and a cohort of MSc students will participate in the project. All project partners will gather once a year to run workshops with the aim of publishing review and synthesis papers. You would also be expected to assist in teaching and supervise MSc student thesis projects. The project is funded by Independent Research Fund Denmark.

Principal supervisor is Associate Professor Bo Dalsgaard, Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, GLOBE Institute, bo.dalsgaard@sund.ku.dk, Direct Phone: +45 42324553. Co-supervisors and project partners are Senior Lecturer Christopher Kaiser-Bunbury and Research Fellow Benno I Simmons (University of Exeter, UK) and Professor Mauro Galetti (University of Miami, USA).

Link to Website: https://employment.ku.dk/faculty/?show=152203