The Ecology lab at the University of Konstanz (the group of Mark van Kleunen) is seeking a postdoc to work on a DFG-FWF-funded project on the completion and analysis of the Global Naturalized Alien Flora (GloNAF) database. This project is part of a large international collaboration, and a second funded position will be based at the University of Vienna in the group of Stefan Dullinger. A first beta-version of GloNAF is already available. The tasks of the postdoc will be to expand the database, add complementary data on species and regions, and to analyse the data to address major questions in invasion ecology and macro ecology. The successful candidate should have an interest in plant invasions, know how to handle large complex databases (preferably in Access), have a solid plant taxonomic knowledge, and have strong writing and statistical skills (preferably in R). The position is initially for two years but can be extended to three years. The salary will be at scale 13 TV-L. The earliest starting date is 1 March 2015, but a later starting date is negotiable.
The University of Konstanz is one of the Universities of Excellence in the Federal Republic of Germany, and is located on a small campus just outside the beautiful university town of Konstanz, which is at the shore of Lake Constance. The Ecology group is young and very international, and works on a diverse set of topics, including among others mating system evolution, plant responses to global change and determinants of plant invasiveness. If you are interested in this position, please, send a letter of motivation, a CV with a complete list of your publications, a copy of your best publication, and the contact details of two references to mark.vankleu...@uni-konstanz.de. Please, merge all these documents into a single PDF file, and include your name in the file name. The application deadline is 10 February 2015.
