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EXPERIENCED POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER CALL: SUSTAIN PROJECT
Deadline: 31/01/2023
Job position: Postdoctoral Researcher
We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to lead a participatory modelling study that analyses the vulnerability of Spanish rural communities to the compounded effects of climate change, depopulation and agricultural trade, and explores the feasibility and effectiveness of vulnerability mitigation policies. The models will address the pathways through which, e.g., the migration of younger generations to urban areas affects the abandonment of agricultural, husbandry and forestry activities, land-use concentration and intensification, biodiversity loss and/or the sensitiveness of rural landscapes to rainfall variability and droughts.
The postdoc will start as soon as possible and work within the SUSTAIN project, hosted at the Environmental Science and Technology Institute (ICTA, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) and funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.
The SUSTAIN project
Rural areas in Spain are experiencing unprecedented environmental and social changes. Climate change and biodiversity loss are occurring alongside depopulation and the abandonment and intensification of rural landscapes. Understanding inter-connections of environmental and social stressors, and their impact on rural development is paramount to devise policy that can enhance the wellbeing of rural populations whilst promoting sustainable land uses.
At the same time, Spain is confronted with a sustainability transition paradox. On the one hand, many rural regions are highly vulnerable to interacting socio-demographic and environmental problems. On the other hand, such vulnerability makes of those regions a unique experimentation niche for new, alternative forms of sustainable development.
SUSTAIN aims to better understand how specific socio-economic and environmental stressors, i.e., depopulation, climate change and agricultural trade, affect the emergence of sustainability transitions. Specifically, SUSTAIN aims to develop new tools for innovative rural development planning and evaluation, and emphasise the positionality of women, the elder and immigrants. The European LEADER program and its current stalemate will be used as a platform to plan and promote bottom-up, innovative and socially inclusive rural development projects.
Tasks
- Primary
- Lead a team effort to design and implement 4 participatory modelling workshops.
- Formalize model/s emerging from the participatory workshops.
- Secondary
- Elaborate a policy brief that will be disseminated among stakeholders and regional and national policy makers.
- Lead a scientific article on the results from the study.
- Co-supervision of 1-2 Master’s students.
Qualifications
Minimum required skills
- A PhD in Environmental Science, Geography, Political Science, Economics, Sociology or similar.
- Accredited experience with participatory modelling in any of its versions (from co-design to stakeholder-validation or showcasing/use).
- Accredited experience with socio-environmental research (natural resource management, rural development, agricultural, agrarian or livelihood studies, and similar).
Desirable skills
- Experience in modelling socio-ecological systems.
- Experience with GIS.
- Experience with database management, i.e., programming language and statistics (phyton, R, or others).
Conditions of employment
- Dedication: 100% for 2 years; 37,5 working hours/week.
- Salary: 32,000 gross/year (negotiable depending on responsibilities assumed).
- Holidays: 4 weeks per year.
Work environment
ICTA- UAB is globally renowned for its cutting-edge research. In global university rankings, UAB ranks 8th in environmental studies worldwide having attracted 10 ERC grants and 18 currently running international projects (13 from the H2020 Programme). ICTA-UAB was accredited with the highest recognition of scientific research in Spain, the ‘María de Maeztu’ Unit of Excellence for the period 2016-2020, and again for the period 2020-2024.
ICTA provides a stimulating working environment in which mutual support is combined with a lot of room for individual initiative. The postdoc will become a member of our high-standing academic and international community with plenty of opportunities for collaboration. Within the SUSTAIN team, the postdoc will work back-to-back with the PIs and a team of Master’s students. We will encourage the postdoc to have her own voice within the project and explore additional research opportunities that are synergistic with it and contribute to promote her career.
We challenge our staff and students to approach issues from multiple disciplines and encourage them to take a different view. We are also proud to welcome people from different countries, ethnicities, and genders.
Application
If interested, please send an email of interest before the 31th of January:
- A 100-words statement of interest.
- A 4-page max. CV, stating at least education, job posts, fieldwork experience, skills, and key achievements (publications, grants, research impact, etc.).
Contact information
Sergio Villamayor-Tomas: villamayortomas@gmail.com
Esteve Corbera Elizalde: esteve.corbera@uab.cat
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER CALL: DEMODRIVERS - ERC CONSOLIDATOR PROJECT
Deadline: 06/01/2023 23:00 - Europe/Brussels
Job position: Postdoctoral Researcher
Job position requirements (skills/languages/required experience)
We are looking for a postdoc candidate to be part of the Research team of the ERC Consolidator DEMODRIVERS.
The selected candidate will carry out research on automatic identification of phytoliths using artificial intelligence (AI) and digital microscopy. The research goals include:
1) building the reference collection of neotropical phytoliths to be used for AI training;
2) identify and tag neotropical phytoliths on samples extracted from archaeological sites and paleosols
3) train and test deep learning algorithms;
4) unveil spatial and temporal patterns of plant use in the Bolivian Amazon during the Holocene.
You will be required to take responsibility for all the steps involved in the “Phytolith analysis” work package of DEMODRIVERS. This will involve, but will not be limited to, sampling sedimentary cores; extraction of phytoliths from sediments and from modern plant tissues; building a digital collection of neotropical phytoliths; supervise the use and maintenance of the Olympus VS200 microscope scanner; analysing, synthetizing and publishing results.
You will be ready to help in the lab for phytoliths extractions during peak workload. you will coordinate, together with the other postdoc, storage, tagging and accessibility of all the samples. you may be requested to take part to the field work in Bolivia, which could last up to 3 months, between July and October.
Benefits
- You will be part of a team of academic researchers working on state-of-the-art technologies in Geoarchaeology.
- You will work in an extremely innovative project with the potential to revolutionize how phytoliths are used in archaeology and paleoecology.
- You will have the chance to contribute to and participate in the international research community.
- We are located in Barcelona, Spain, one of the most enjoyable cities worldwide.
- You will be affiliated to the Institute of Science and Environmental Technology (ICTA-UAB), one of the most prestigious research centres in Spain.
- You will have a 3 years contract with a salary of 37.500 €/year plus financial support to attend training courses and international conferences.
Eligibility criteria: Academic curricula; proficiency in English; excellent and proven skills in neotropical phytoliths identification.
- Academic record (35)
- Relevant Research Experience (15)
- Motivation (10)
- Interview (30)
- Language skills (10)
Selection process:
- We expect to interview shortlisted candidates (in person or via Zoom/Skype) within 21 working days after the application deadline.
- Starting date between 1/3/2023 and 30/4/2023.
- The selection committee reserves the right to not fill this position if no suitable candidate is identified.
DOCTORAL STUDENT CALL: CAPABLE PROJECT
Offer Description:
PhD Student - Develop the doctoral Thesis
Achieving climate neutrality in the EU and globally requires ambitious policies that are cost-effective, fair, and politically feasible. The proposed
project aims to improve economic analysis of climate policy by better accounting for the preferences and knowledge of voters and policymakers. This will draw on economic methods to study decisionmaking and policy evaluation, as well as on insights from sociology, political science and psychology.
We are looking for a PhD student with a background in quantitative economics or modelling/statistics to contribute to the following tasks: review empirical and modelling studies of climate policy to examine how various types of heterogeneity (income, wealth, preferences, social networking) affect policy effectiveness; examine the consistency and complementarity of ex-ante and ex-post climate-policy evaluation; Investigate how policymakers employ scientific evidence, including exante and ex-post studies, on climate change, using semi-structured interviews.
We are looking for a PhD student with a background in quantitative economics or modelling/statistics to contribute to the following tasks: review empirical and modelling studies of climate policy to examine how various types of heterogeneity (income, wealth, preferences, social networking) affect policy effectiveness; examine the consistency and complementarity of ex-ante and ex-post climate-policy evaluation; Investigate how policymakers employ scientific evidence, including exante and ex-post studies, on climate change, using semi-structured interviews.
Job position requirements (skills/languages/required experience)
Economics, modelling/programming skills
Benefits
Gross Annual Salary 1r & 2n year= 16.971,64€
Gross Annual Salary 3rd year = 18.183,90€