Postdoctoral Contract Juan de la Cierva

We look for candidates to apply for a two/three year postdoctoral contract Juan de la Cierva.

Place: Research Group of Patrick S. Fitze at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC), Madrid and Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (IPE-CSIC) in Jaca (Huesca)

Foreseen contract start: end of 2021/start of 2022.

RESEARCH TOPICS

The research will focus on population dynamics of lizards and their adaptation to environmental and climatic change. Natural lizard populations will be studied and/or mesocosm population experiments conducted. These studies are essential to understand how environmental changes affect the evolution of life-history strategies and the short and longer-term population viability.

PROFILE OF THE CANDIDATE

The ideal candidate has a competitive curriculum vitae that includes:

• Several first author publications in top-ranking journals (Q1).
• A PhD after January 1st, 2016, outside the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC). 
• Research stays abroad (outside of Spain).
• Good level of spoken and written English.
• Interested in life-history evolution and population dynamics.
• Experience with doing field work.
• Likes statistics and controls the program R and capture-mark-recapture models.

PROCEDURE TO APPLY

Interested candidates should send their application to Patrick S. Fitze (patrick.fitze@mncn.csic.es) before January 7th, 2021, with the following information (in a single pdf file):

• Motivation letter
• CV
• Academic marks of BSc and MSc
• E-mail addresses of three referees

Front page image from Patrick S. Fitze