Senior researcher, Oulanka Research Station, Infrastructure Unit

Service and separate units, Oulanka Research Station

The University of Oulu is a multidisciplinary, international research university, with about 4000 employees who produce new knowledge based on high-standards research and provide research based education to build a more sustainable, smarter, and more humane world. The University of Oulu community has about 19,000 people in total. Our northern scientific community operates globally and creates conditions for the emergence of innovations. The University of Oulu is ranked in the top 3% of the world's universities. All our research, education, and community activities are guided by our university's values and ethical principles.

We are now looking for

Senior Researcher

to join Oulanka Research Station for a permanent position.

Oulanka Research Station is a regional unit of the University of Oulu, and its main roles are to facilitate high-level research and university teaching. The station is situated in the heart of Oulanka National Park, a region very rich in spectacular nature sites - a rare opportunity to work in the middle of the most beautiful nature! Although Oulanka has a focus and strong history on natural sciences and environmental engineering, the station is open to all kinds of research, also multidisciplinary and arts. This position is a perfect chance to do research and facilitate research of others related to climate science and freshwater ecology and to work together with world-class research groups. Oulanka research station is very strong both in long-term data and experimental work and systems, and each of these strengths covers both running waters and terrestrial environments.

About the job

In the position of Senior Researcher, you would contribute to facilitating research activities by other researchers and research groups at Oulanka in addition to doing your own research at Oulanka. You would also contribute to ongoing and future projects that develop Oulanka infrastructure further. You would