The Chinese Academy of Sciences offers 1-to-2-year postdoctoral fellowships (Category C) and 2-to-9-month visiting fellowships for faculty (Categories A & B), under its PIFI program (Presidential International Fellowship Initiative).
All fellowships come with an internationally competitive salary and round-trip airfare. http://international-talent.cas.cn/front/index.html#/bicsite/pifiIntroduce/pifi <http://international-talent.cas.cn/front/index.html#/bicsite/pifiIntroduce/pifi> My lab at the Kunming Institute of Zoology welcomes environmental scientists from anywhere in the world who are working with environmental DNA, metabarcoding, and/or mito/metagenomic data for biodiversity conservation. This includes scientists working in statistical ecology, who would like use these new data sources. My lab is fully funded for coffee and sequencing, and we have lots of datasets for exploration. We are particularly interested in collaborations in these areas: The biodiversity impact of the One Belt One Road Programme and of climate change. The integration of remote-sensing data, joint species distribution modelling, and high-throughput data for monitoring biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services. See this article for more detail: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0176 <https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0176> Metagenomics of meiofauna (e.g. nematodes, mites from soil), especially as it relates to agriculture The Kunming Institute of Zoology is very active in evolutionary biology, especially in evolutionary and functional genomics. KIZ also has an active DNA barcoding center. PIFI applicants interested in these areas can also contact me for introductions to other KIZ faculty. Kunming, in Yunnan province, China, is a very pleasant place to live and visit, with several microbreweries and great weather (see gokunming.com <http://gokunming.com/>) Doug Yu -- Prof. Douglas W. Yu Kunming Institute of Zoology, 21 Qingsong Lu, Kunming, Yunnan 650201 China 中国云南昆明市盘龙区茨坝青松路21号, ofc +86-871-519 9178, mob 1860-871-7369 School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk NR4 7TJ UK, mob +44-7510-308-272 www.uea.ac.uk/bio/People/Academic/Douglas+Yu <http://www.uea.ac.uk/bio/People/Academic/Douglas+Yu>, eastanglia.academia.edu/DouglasYu/Papers <http://eastanglia.academia.edu/DouglasYu/Papers> for pdfs
