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Positions are available at the University of Copenhagen within a cross-disciplinary research programme aiming at ‘explaining distribution of life on Earth’. Candidates should have a strong publication record, relevant analytical and data handling skills, and an ability to communicate within a research team. Competitive salary offered. Themes where we seek postdoctoral applications:

  • THEME 1 - VERTEBRATE MACROECOLOGIST/BIOGEOGRAPHER to work on questions related to species distributions and diversity patterns using information on species evolutionary history derived from phylogenetic trees.
  • THEME 2 - CLIMATE CHANGE ECOLOGIST to work on questions related to prediction of potential effects of climate change on future patterns of species distributions and diversity.
  • THEME 3 - INVERTEBRATE BIOGEOGRAPHER/MACROECOLOGIST to work on questions related to species distributions and diversity patterns using information on species evolutionary history derived from phylogenetic trees.
  • THEME 4 – SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGIST/ARACHNOLOGIST to work on the phylogeny of spiders.
  • THEME 5 – ANCIENT DNA – PAST POPULATION GENETICS to work with questions relating to past population genetics of humans in the New World and/or past population genetics of marine animals and/or ice age megafauna.
  • THEME 6 – GEOLOGY to work on Paleogeography in close collaboration with the research groups in macroecology and biogeography.
  • THEME 7 – GEOLOGY to work on low temperature geochemistry in close collaboration with the research groups in macroecology and biogeography.
  • THEME 8 – HUMAN DISEASES – EVOLUTIONARY MEDICINE to work on questions related to the geographical distribution of vector born diseases, with particular emphasis on the climatic parameters that affect vector and host distributions and thus the geographic mosaic of their co-evolutionary history.

Full description on the individual postdoctoral positions within eight themes is given at http://www1.bio.ku.dk/om/jobs/macroecology/ Applications must be based on the full description of the positions and submitted before Wednesday 1 October 2008. For enquiry about the program please contact Professor Carsten Rahbek, Center for Macroecology and Evolution, Dept. of Biology, University of Copenhagen, crahbek@bio.ku.dk.