I am seeking a postdoctoral assistant to join my new group at the University
of Konstanz in Germany. My group will focus on questions related to invasive
plants, rare plants, responses of plants to global change, phenotypic
plasticity and adaptation, and pollination and reproduction. The University
of Konstanz is one of the nine Universities of Excellence in the Federal
Republic of Germany, and is located on a small campus in the forests just
outside the beautiful university town of Konstanz at the shore of Lake
Constance.
Duties:
- Assisting me in building-up a plant-ecology lab
- Research on one of the topics mentioned above
- Teaching and supervision of students (4 hr a week during the
semester).
Requirements:
- A PhD degree and two or more years of postdoctoral experience in
plant ecology.
- Experience with one or more of the following approaches, large
(multi-species) experiments, database studies and meta-analyses.
- Experience in using molecular markers.
- Strong statistical skills
- A strong publication record
The salary will be at scale 13 TV-L . If you are interested in this
position, please, send a single PDF or Word document, including a letter of
application, a CV, a list of publications and the contact details of three
references, to vkleunen@ips.unibe.ch before 30 November 2010. The preferred
starting date is 1 February 2011. Initially the position will be for a
period of four years, but extension is possible. For more information,
contact Mark van Kleunen at vkleunen@ips.unibe.ch.