Dear All,
The Insect Biome Atlas (www.insectbiomeatlas.org) will soon be advertising two postdoc positions. IBA is a five-year international project aimed at characterizing the diversity of insects in Sweden and Madagascar. The project uses metabarcoding of thousands of Malaise trap and soil samples to study the size, origins, structure and function of the insect biomes.
We will be looking for:
1) An applied statistician / quantitative ecologist with a keen interest in ecology, to work on joint species distribution models, community structure and species richness estimators using large datasets of insect community composition.
2) A community ecologist with a firm grip on quantitative methods, to work on phenological patterns of insect species and address questions related to spatial variation in ecosystem functions.
The postdocs will have access to unprecedented datasets on insect community composition (and associated microbiomes) compiled through the metabarcoding of >8000 insect community samples collected over 12 months sampling in Sweden and Madagascar. The positions will be associated with the Swedish Museum of Natural History, in close collaboration with Tomas Roslin at SLU Uppsala and Ayco Tack at Stockholm University.
For enquiries, please contact Tomas Roslin (tomas.roslin@slu.se) and/or Ayco Tack (ayco.tack@su.se). We expect to officially advertise the 2 positions over the summer with a likely start date in January 2022.
Best wishes
Tomas
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Tomas Roslin, Professor
Department of Ecology
P.O. Box 7044
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
SE-750 07 Uppsala
Sweden
and
Spatial Foodweb Ecology Group
Department of Agricultural Sciences
PO Box 27 (Latokartanonkaari 5)
FI-00014 University of Helsinki
Finland
Phone (FIN): +358 40 595 8098
Phone (SWE): +46 18 672 383
web pages:
https://www.slu.se/en/cv/tomas-roslin/
http://www.helsinki.fi/foodwebs/
https://www.helsinki.fi/en/projects/lifeplan
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