Postdoctoral Researcher in Computational Statistics and Population Modeling

The Swedish Museum of Natural History is a government agency with a mandate to promote knowledge, research and interest in our world. It is a prominent research institution and Sweden's largest museum. For more than 200 years, the museum has been collecting specimens and data and conducting research on life on earth. The collections contain more than 11 million plants, animals, fungi, environmental samples, minerals and fossils. All research and knowledge are shared in the exhibitions, Cosmonova and in activities at the museum and digitally.

The Department of Population Analysis and Monitoring conducts research, monitoring, and genetic analyses of marine and terrestrial mammals. The department consists of several working groups focusing on species monitoring, conservation, and genetic identification. Activities include monitoring harbour porpoises, seals, bears, golden eagles, and arctic foxes, as well as carrying out genetic analyses for a vide range of conservation and environmental applications through the Centre for Genentic Identification (CGI). The department currently hosts four posdoctoral researchers and several senior researchers with expertise in ecology, genetics, and environmental monitoring.

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WORK TASKS

Management of large carnivores such as brown bears, wolves, and wolverines requires reliable, transparent, and spatially explicit estimates of population size and dynamics. Scandinavia hosts one of the worlds largest long-term genetic monitoring datasets for large carnivores. However, current statistical methods do not fully exploit the richness of these data.

The BearKin project, funded by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, aims to develop scalable and ecologically realistic statistical methods for estimating spatio-temporal abundance of large carnivores, with a primary focus on the Scandinavian brown bear. The project integrates:

Open-Population Spatial Capture-Recapture (OPSCR)

Close-Kin Mark-Recapture (CKMR)

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