5 Biodiversity Jobs in Wien, Niederösterreich und im Burgenland
Your personal sphere of play:
- You will continue to build an independent research profile in your field
- You participate in and contribute to ongoing research projects
- You develop new projects and apply for third-party funding
- You publish in international journals as both the lead author and as a co-author on papers from the group to which you contribute
- You serve as the instructor of record for courses related to your area of expertise within the scope of the provisions of the collective bargaining agreement
- You supervise or co-supervise master and PhD students in the group, with an emphasis on training students in skills related to your area of specialization
- You contribute to group administration, such as the preparation of reports and personnel management
- You contribute to the maintenance of wet-lab and dry-lab infrastructure
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Your personal sphere of influence:
- You will develop a multi-part project with clear goals and defined manuscripts
- You will lead all aspects of your project from the development of hypothesis to the collection of data and publishing of results
- You will contribute to teaching as circumscribed by the guidelines for praedoc positions at the University of Vienna
- You will contribute, if needed, to the mentoring of master and bachelor students in the group, with an emphasis on training students in skills related to your area of specialization
- You will present your research at international conferences
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Your personal sphere of play:
- You engage in the collection of DNA and RNA sequence data in the lab, including DNA and RNA extractions, sequencing libary construction, hybridization-based target enrichment (HybSeq), and more
- You help develop new lab protocols to adapt a changing research landscape
- You coordinate with other group members to address project needs
- You help manage the deposition and storage of sequence data
- You contribute to the analysis of data analysis
- You contribute to the writing and editing of manuscripts.
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Your personal sphere of influence:
- Participation in research projects in the field of Education for Sustainable Development/Environmental Education/Climate Change Education
- Writing of scientific research publications and teacher education publications, giving public lectures (all on national and international level)
- Contribution to the preparation of grant applications for third-party funding
- Co-Coordination and participation in the research-, teaching-, and outreach-project "Bee.Ed – Education through the bee."
- Independent teaching in accordance with the collective labor agreement
- Involvement in evaluation measures and quality assurance
- Student support and involvement in the supervision of B.Ed and M.Ed. theses.
- Contribution in Third Mission and Outreach activities
- Involvement in the organization of conferences, symposia, and events
- Contribution to Biology in-service teacher training
- Participation in institute, teaching, and research administration.
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The project
In a project fully funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), the successful candidate will explore demographic responses of alpine biota (flowering plants and arthropods) to past climatic oscillations. Specifically, the following question will be addressed: • Did high-elevation species of the European Alps respond to Pleistocene climate oscillations by postglacial expansion or by postglacial contraction? • Were these range shifts affected by the ecological characteristics of these species? • Are past population size and range changes predictive of changes expected under current global climate change? By comparatively studying species from different plant and animal lineages, it will be possible to distinguish both (i) general patterns (i.e., applicable to many species) from idiosyncratic ones (i.e., applicable to single or a few species only) and (ii) patterns specific to certain major groups (e.g., animals vs. plants) from patterns specific to certain ecological groups (e.g., species from swards vs. screes). By identifying characteristics affecting the response of high-mountain species to global warming in a predictable manner, this research can significantly contribute towards generating hypotheses with respect to the fate of high-elevation species under current global climate change.
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