I am seeking a postdoctoral assistant to join my new group at the University of Konstanz in Germany. My group will focus on questions related to invasive plants, rare plants, responses of plants to global change, phenotypic plasticity and adaptation, and pollination and reproduction. The University of Konstanz is one of the nine Universities of Excellence in the Federal Republic of Germany, and is located on a small campus in the forests just outside the beautiful university town of Konstanz at the shore of Lake Constance.
Duties: - Assisting me in building-up a plant-ecology lab - Research on one of the topics mentioned above - Teaching and supervision of students (4 hr a week during the semester). Requirements: - A PhD degree and two or more years of postdoctoral experience in plant ecology. - Experience with one or more of the following approaches, large (multi-species) experiments, database studies and meta-analyses. - Experience in using molecular markers. - Strong statistical skills - A strong publication record The salary will be at scale 13 TV-L . If you are interested in this position, please, send a single PDF or Word document, including a letter of application, a CV, a list of publications and the contact details of three references, to vkleu...@ips.unibe.ch before 30 November 2010. The preferred starting date is 1 February 2011. Initially the position will be for a period of four years, but extension is possible. For more information, contact Mark van Kleunen at vkleu...@ips.unibe.ch.
