[ECOLOG-L] Position - Ecological Programmer, Germany

[Kerstin Wiegand]

The Ecosystem Modelling group at the 
Georg-August-University Goettingen is offering a 
Postdoctoral position in the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC 990).
Ecological and socioeconomic functions of 
tropical lowland rainforest transformation 
systems (Sumatra, Indonesia) in the project 
Landscape-level assessment of ecological and 
socio-economic functions of rainforest 
transformation systems. The position will be 
limited until 31.12.2015 with possibility of 
extension and should be filled as soon as 
possible. Salary: Pay grade 100 % TVL 13 of 
German state-regulated public service salary 
scale corresponding to 39.8 working hours per week.
Your tasks: The project focuses on the ecological 
and socio-economic effects of land-use 
transformation in lowland Sumatra, Indonesia. The 
guiding question of the project is: what kind of 
landscape mosaic do we need so as to balance 
biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and economic 
benefits? The main goal of the project is to 
deve-lop and use models integrating ecological 
and socio-economic components to simulate the 
spatiotemporal dy-namics of land uses and 
individual households. More precisely, the models 
should consider lowland forest, rubber, and oil 
palm plantations. Within this project the 
postdoctoral researcher will be in charge of 
model analysis, further developing the ecological 
part of the model, and integrating ecological and 
economic model components. The economic 
components of the model, the landscape generation 
and a simplified ecological module exist and are 
ready to be refined and analyzed. The project 
plays a central role in integrating the 
in-terdisciplinary research of the CRC 990.
Your profile: PhD degree and experience in 
ecological modelling, that is to say in the 
development, programming, and analysis of 
simulation models. Good command of statistics and 
mathematics. Experience in research into 
socio-economics, tropical ecology, or 
biodiversity and ecosystem functio-ning are a 
plus. Willingness to take on a leading role in 
the collaboration among the interdisciplinary 
researchers of the CRC. Proven experience with 
sound and time-efficient writing of modeling papers. Proficiency in English.
The project will be based in Goettingen, Germany, 
but short stays in Indonesia are expected.
The University of Goettingen is an equal 
opportunities employer and places particular 
emphasis on fostering career opportunities for 
women. Qualified women are therefore strongly 
encouraged to apply as they are underrepresented 
in this field. Disabled persons with equivalent aptitude will be favored.
Please send your application electronically as a 
single pdf containing the usual documents by 
January 5, 2015 to kwiegan1(at)uni-goettingen.de 
(Prof. Dr. Kerstin Wiegand, Ecosystem Modelling 
Group, GeorgAugust-University Goettingen, Buesgenweg 4, 37077 Göttingen).
If you have any questions, please contact Kerstin 
Wiegand (email: kwiegan1(at)uni-goettingen.de) or 
Katrin Meyer (email: 
kmeyer5(at)uni-goettingen.de). We request that 
you send your application documents as single pdf 
file. We will dispose the documents after a 
holding period of five months. Information about 
the Ecosys-tem Modelling group can be found at 
http://www.uni-goettingen.de/EcoMod.html For 
Information about the Collaborative Research 
Centre (CRC 990) see: http://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/310995.html

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Kerstin Wiegand
Professor of Ecosystem Modelling
www.uni-goettingen.de/EcoMod.html
Phone (direct) +49-551-39 10121
Phone (office) +49-551-39 33464