The University of Oulu in Northern Finland, with approximately 16,000 students and 3,000 employees, is an international, multidisciplinary research university with a rich pool of creative and intellectual talent. The strengths of the University include broad, multidisciplinary research interests, a modern research and study environment, and wide cooperation with international research and educational institutes (http://www.oulu.fi/university/).
The Thule Institute is a strategic focus area unit which promotes multidisciplinary research and innovations through high-quality research projects and doctoral training (http://www.oulu.fi/thuleinstitute/). The positions are a part of the Thule Institute’s new projects centered on the two out of five thematic focus areas of the university: 'Creating sustainability through materials and systems' and 'Earth and near-space system and environmental change'.
The postdoctoral positions are open in the following research projects:
Position 1. Macroecology and diversity of species interactions
Position 2. Impact of extreme weather events in the Arctic on technological system, critical facilities and urban environment
Position 3. Understanding and predicting environmental change in northern rivers: biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in a changing climate
Position 4. Climate and Atmospheric Effects of the Sun in Arctic Regions (CAESAR)
Position 5. Towards the genomic era in species identification and delimitation
Position 6. Ecology and evolution in trophic interactions in changing boreal forest habitats
Position 7. Loss of ice in the Arctic system: geological perspective of global environmental change
Position 8. Mesospheric Monitoring of Ozone above the Polar Vortex (MeMO)
Position 9. Impact of mining on the rate of molecular aging in Arctic wildlife
Further details:
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