The Department of Biological sciences announces a full time (140 hours/month) Special Scientist position (Postdoctoral Researcher) for the research programme “iBioGen - Twinning for European Excellence in Island Biodiversity Genomics” funded by the EU Horizon2020 Twinning scheme.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- The successful applicant should have a PhD in Molecular Ecology, Evolutionary Biology or related discipline and a relevant publication record
- Previous laboratory experience with library preparation protocols for Next Generation
- Sequencing is required
- Familiarity with bioinformatics processing of illumina sequencing data, as well as with phylogenetics and population genetics analyses is an additional requirement
- Previous fieldwork experience (e.g., sampling of terrestrial arthropods) is highly desirable