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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 15,500 students and 2,500 members of staff. We operate in Joensuu and Kuopio. In international rankings, we are ranked among the leading 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

 a Postdoctoral Researcher position, Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences (Terrestrial Biogeochemical Modeling) Kuopio Campus

We are seeking a highly motivated motivated candidate for a postdoctoral researcher position with expertise in the development, testing, and application of below- and above-ground biogeochemical and regional models, with a focus on high-latitude systems and climate feedbacks. The successful candidate will work on vegetation, soil biogeochemistry, testing the model against past and new field data, and applying the model to characterize feedbacks - past, present and future.

The candidate will be working in an Academy of Finland funded consortium project, Carbon dynamics across Arctic landscape gradients: past, present and future (CAPTURE). The other consortium partners are the University of Helsinki and Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki.

The work will focus on several high-latitude processes, including characterization of soil permafrost, characterization of high-latitude vegetation; prediction of future vegetation distributions; soil-plant biophysical feedbacks with the atmosphere; interactions between plant and soil microbial N demands; and impacts on the surface energy and greenhouse gas (GHG) budgets due to changes in vegetation, biogeochemistry, hydrology and land water interactions.

The job requires an applicant with a wide range of skills, including the use of state-of-the-art land-surface models; GIS, programming, understanding of methods to model vegetation and belowground processes and dynamics; peatland modeling linking existing palaeo data, excellent oral and written presentation of results; and ability to work independently and in an integrated team environment. Applicants must have a recent PhD in an applicable discipline.

A person to be appointed as a postdoctoral researcher shall hold a suitable doctoral degree. The position will be filled for a fixed term due to it pertaining to a specific project (positions of postdoctoral researcher shall always be filled for a fixed term, UEF University Regulations, Section 31). The doctoral degree may not be from more than 5 years ago at the time when the position starts. An applicant with a doctoral degree completed more than 5 years ago can be considered for a specific reason only (maternity, paternity, parental or child care leave, military or non-military service). If the applicant pleads to the above mentioned reasons, he or she needs to explain them in the application.

English may be used as the language of instruction and supervision in this position.

The position will be filled for one year from May 1, 2019, or as agreed. The continuation of the position will be agreed separately.

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 (€2,935.55/ month). In addition to the job requirement component, the salary is supplemented by a personal performance component, which can be a maximum of 50% of the job requirement component.

For further information on the position, please contact: Head of the Research Team, Docent Narasinha J. Shurpali, Ph.D., tel. +358 40 355 3321, e-mail narasinha.shurpali a uef.fi For further information on the application procedure, please contact Executive Head of Administration Arja Hirvonen, tel. +358 29 445 3002, e-mail arja.hirvonen a uef.fi.

 A probationary period is applied to all new members of the staff.

 The electronic application should contain the following appendices:
 - a résumé or CV
 - a list of publications
 - a portfolio of teaching merits
- copies of the applicant's academic degree certificates/ diplomas, and copies of certificates / diplomas relating to the applicant's language proficiency, if not indicated in the academic degree certificates/diplomas

 The application needs to be submitted no later than 1 April 2019 (by 24.00 hours Finnish time) by using the electronic application form.

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