Työnimike: Postdoctoral Researcher

Työnkuvaus:
The University of Eastern Finland, UEF, is one of the largest multidisciplinary universities in Finland. We offer education in nearly one hundred major subjects, and are home to approximately 15,000 students and 2,800 members of staff. We operate on three campuses in Joensuu, Kuopio and Savonlinna. In international rankings, we are ranked among the leading 300 universities in the world. The Faculty of Science and Forestry operates on the Kuopio and Joensuu campuses of the University of Eastern Finland. The mission of the faculty is to carry out internationally recognised scientific research and to offer research-education in the fields of natural sciences and forest sciences. The faculty invests in all of the strategic research areas of the university. The faculty's environments for research and learning are international, modern and multidisciplinary. The faculty has approximately 3,800 Bachelor's and Master's degree students and some 490 postgraduate students. The number of staff amounts to 560. http://www.uef.fi/en/lumet/etusivu We are now inviting applications for the position of a Postdoctoral Researcher in Hymenopteran Phylogenomics and Diversification, Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Joensuu Campus We are looking for a highly motivated person to conduct research on the macroevolutionary history of the hyperdiverse insect order Hymenoptera (sawflies, bees, wasps, ants, and parasitoids) in a new research project funded by the Academy of Finland. The main duties of the Postdoctoral Researcher will be to: - Develop protocols for successful DNA extraction and next-generation sequencing from insect museum specimens. - Perform large-scale phylogenomic analyses of diverse hymenopteran groups using data collected by targeted capture and sequencing of ultraconserved elements (UCE's). - Conduct statistical analyses of ecological trait evolution, phylogeography, and factors influencing diversification rates within the Hymenoptera, with a focus on the ancestrally plant-feeding (sawfly) lineages. - Publish the results as high-quality articles in leading international scientific journals. The work will be performed mainly in the Joensuu Molecular Ecology Group (www.jmeg.fi), which operates at the Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences of the University of Eastern Finland (www.uef.fi/en/envbio). Part of the laboratory work will be done during extended research visits to the laboratories of Brant Faircloth (Louisiana State University; www.faircloth-lab.org) and Niklas Wahlberg (Lund University; www.biology.lu.se/niklas-wahlberg). The project also includes extensive collaboration with an international network of experts on hymenopteran taxonomy, biogeography, and ecology. A person to be appointed as a postdoctoral researcher shall hold a suitable doctoral degree, which may not have been completed more than five years ago at the time of accepting the position. In this context, the 5 years refer to a net period of time, which does not include maternity leaves, parental leaves, or military service, etc. Positions of postdoctoral researchers shall always be filled for a fixed term (UEF Administrative Regulations 30 §). The position will first be filled for 12 months, with a possibility for prolongation for two more years.The continuation of the position will be agreed separately. The start date of the position is 1 September 2016 or as agreed. The salary of the position is determined in accordance with the salary system of Finnish universities and is based on level 5 of the job requirement level chart for teaching and research staff (€2.865,30/ month). In addition to the job requirement component, the salary includes a personal performance component, which may be a maximum of 46.3% of the job requirement component. For further information on the position, please contact: Associate Professor Tommi Nyman, tel. +358 40 520 6540, e-mail: tommi.nyman (at) uef.fi. For further information on the application proce

Työnantajan nimi: Itä-Suomen yliopisto

Työnantajan osoite: 80101 JOENSUU

Työn lyhyt kuvaus: Luonnontieteen tekniset asiantuntijat

Maa: Suomi

Alue: Pohjois-Karjala

Sopimuksen kesto: Tilapäinen

Sopimuslaji: Kokopäiväinen

Lähde työtarjous:
MOL/Työ- ja elinkeinoministeriö, Julkiset työvoimapalvelut, Suomi