Postdoc in Microbial Biogeography and Ecology | CDE Almería - Centro de Documentación Europea

Laboratory of Environmental Microbiology is looking for a motivated postdoctoral fellow. The person will be involved in the projects of the laboratory and perform his/her own research in the biogeography and ecology of terrestrial fungi and the drivers of fungal distribution and community composition using meta-analytical approaches

Requirements

PhD degree awarded before July 31, 2020 in the field of ecology, microbiology, plant sciences or similar
Experience in microbial or plant biogeography, ecology, biostatistics or bioinformatics, being active in an institution outside the Czech Republic for at least two out of three years before July 31, 2020.
Knowledge of advanced statistical methods and advanced knowledge of the R statistical environment.
First-authored papers in leading IF journals in the field of biogeography, microbial ecology, plant ecology, plant-microbe interactions, biostatistics or bioinformatics
Excellence in English
Motivation for independent scientific work, and, in the same time, the support of projects of others

Benefits

We offer the work in inspiring and friendly environment of an international team of the Laboratory of Environmental Microbiology of the Institute of Microbiology in Prague, the Czech Republic (see e.g. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Petr_Baldrian) and access to interesting experiments / datasets produced by the host institution and their collaborators.

Gross salary: approximately 3000 USD / month (in CZK), 30 days paid holiday per year.