Postdoctoral Researcher in Tropical Forest Ecology at the University of Oxford, UK Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK Grade 7: £29,249 - £35,938 with a discretionary range to £39257 p.a.
We are recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for a NERC-project entitled Natural enemies, climate, and the maintenance of tropical tree diversity. This is a fixed-term post for 36 months. The project will involve a combination of manipulative field and screenhouse experiments in Panama, and the collection and analysis of datasets on the dynamics of rainforest tree seedlings. This position will be associated with the University of Oxford (UK) but with extensive periods of fieldwork in Panama. The postdoctoral researcher is expected to undertake and publish high-quality original scientific research in collaboration with the project team. He or she must be prepared to spend significant periods of time based at the projects field site in Panama. In the field, full-time research assistants will contribute to fieldwork and greenhouse experiments under the day-to-day supervision of the postdoctoral researcher. The project also has an ecological modeling component, which will largely be carried out by a second postdoctoral researcher based at the University of Sheffield. You must have a PhD/DPhil in an ecological topic, experience of fieldwork in tropical forests and a thorough knowledge and experience of experimental design and analysis. For informal enquiries please contact Dr Owen Lewis ([email protected]). Applications must be received before midday on Monday 15 October 2012 and you will be required to upload a CV and supporting statement to your online application. Further particulars are available at: www.recruit.ox.ac.uk (Vacancy ID 104596)
