Postdoctoral Researcher, Ecology and Genetics
About this role
Faculty of Science, Ecology and Genetics
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
a Postdoctoral Researcher
to join us, Global Change and Biotic Interactions Ecology -group, for the Research Council of Finland-funded project " Mechanisms of Plant Biodiversity Change ", both led by Prof. Anu Eskelinen (Eskelinen Research Group | Global Change and Biotic Interaction Ecology).
Description of the position
We are looking for a highly motivated and talented, strongly research-oriented person to carry
out postdoctoral research addressing the mechanisms of plant biodiversity change. In this
project, we investigate what are the roles of mechanisms related to spatial context, dispersal in
space and time, biotic interactions (competition, herbivory) and intraspecific trait change in
driving heterogeneous responses of plant biodiversity to different global change factors (e.g.,
climate warming, nutrient enrichment). We aim for a more holistic understanding of plant
biodiversity change in the Anthropocene, being able to provide answers to questions: how, why
and where plant biodiversity changes. The research questions can relate, for example, to (1) the
role of seed banks as a diversity maintaining mechanism under multiple global changes, (2) the
role of competition for light and other mechanisms such as litter and loss of herbivory in driving
diversity loss under clima