Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Terrestrial Vertebrate Evolutionary Biology / Ecology

FACULTY OF SCIENCE
SCHOOL OF BIOLOGICAL EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

REF 8734

Salary range: Lecturer $86K ĄV $102K per year, Senior Lecturer $105K
ĄV $120K per year depending on qualifications and experience. There is
an additional 17% employer superannuation.  Lecturer (level B) roughly
equates to assistant professor and SeniorLecturer (level C) to associate
professor in the North American system.  The School of Biological Earth
and Environmental Sciences (BEES) is seeking to appoint a biologist to
undertake research, postgraduate supervision and teaching within one
of AustraliaĄŚs most dynamic research environments.  The appointee
will be expected to build a research program in areas of whole-organism
biological sciences, specifically in the area of terrestrial vertebrates,
and tosupervise Honours and postgraduate students with interests in the
biological sciences.  UNSW was one of only four universities within
Australia to achieve an average research ranking over 4 in the 2010
Australian Research CouncilĄŚs national ERA research assessment. BEES
was a majorcontributor to UNSW obtaining rankings of 5/5 for biological
sciences (well above world research standards) and 4/5 for earth
sciences (significantly above world standards).  BEES is a large,
multi-disciplinary,research intensive school in the Faculty of Science
at the University of New South Wales, dedicated to pure and applied
research in natural systems spanning the biological sciences to the earth
sciences. The school incorporates a range of environmentally-relevant
disciplines enabling it to undertake comprehensive education and research
in the broad fields of Biology, Marine Science, Geography and Geology.
Within the biological sciences, the school has research strengths in
evolutionary ecology, wetlands and rivers ecology, marine biology and
palaeobiology and is regrowing the general areas of mammalian biology and
plant systems that have been traditional strengths. Over the last decade
UNSW has oriented its whole-organism biology research towards a focus
on integrative and conceptual biology ĄV particularly at the interface
of evolution and ecology.  The School is home to the Evolution & Ecology
Research Centre, the Australian Wetlands and Rivers Centre, the Australian
Tsunami Research Centre and the Palaeontology & Palaeoecology research
group, as well asbeing a partner in the Sydney Institute for Marine
Sciences, the National Groundwater Centre for Research and Teaching,
the Centre for Marine Bioinnovation and the Climate Change Research
Centre.  UNSW maintains field research stations in NSW at Fowlers Gap,
Wellington (semi-arid) and Smiths Lakes (coastal).  The UNSW Fowlers
Gap Arid Zone Research Station covers 40,000ha in western NSW and has
a range of research facilities.  Preference may be given to applicants
with potential to lead or contribute to research projects using this
major field facility.  The position is a continuing appointment pending
satisfactory progress.  Women and people from EEO groups are encouraged
to apply.

Applicants should address the selection criteria found within the
position description, in their online application.  For further
information about the position, please contact Associate
Professor David Cohen on telephone (+61 2) 9385 8084 or email
d.cohen@unsw.edu.au


With many thanks,

Professor Rob Brooks
Director, Evolution & Ecology Research Centre
The University of New South Wales
Www.eerc.edu.au

Www.robbrooks.net