The Chinese Academy of Sciences offers 1-to-2-year postdoctoral fellowships and 2-to-9-month visiting fellowships for faculty, under its PIFI program (Presidential International Fellowship Initiative).
All fellowships come with an internationally competitive salary and round-trip airfare. http://international-talent.cas.cn/front/index.html#/bicsite/pifiIntroduce/pifi <http://international-talent.cas.cn/front/index.html#/bicsite/pifiIntroduce/pifi> My lab at the Kunming Institute of Zoology welcomes environmental scientists from anywhere in the world who are working with environmental-DNA, metabarcoding, and/or mito/metagenomic data for biodiversity conservation. This includes scientists working in statistical ecology, who would like to start using these new data sources. My lab is fully funded for coffee and sequencing. We are particularly interested in collaborations in these areas: The biodiversity impact of the One Belt One Road Initiative and of climate change. The integration of remote-sensing data, joint species distribution modelling, and high-throughput data for monitoring biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services. See this article for more detail: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0176 <https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0176> The Kunming Institute of Zoology is very active in evolutionary biology, especially in evolutionary and functional genomics and phylogeography. KIZ also has an active DNA barcoding center. PIFI applicants interested in these areas can also contact me for quick introductions to other KIZ faculty. Kunming, in Yunnan province, China, is a very pleasant place to live and visit, with several new microbreweries and great weather (see gokunming.com <http://gokunming.com/>) Douglas Yu -- Prof. Douglas W. Yu School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk NR4 7TJ UK, mob +44-7510-308-272 Kunming Institute of Zoology, 21 Qingsong Lu, Kunming, Yunnan 650201 China 中国云南昆明市盘龙区茨坝青松路21号, ofc +86-871-519 9178, mob 1860-871-7369 www.uea.ac.uk/bio/People/Academic/Douglas+Yu <http://www.uea.ac.uk/bio/People/Academic/Douglas+Yu>, eastanglia.academia.edu/DouglasYu/Papers <http://eastanglia.academia.edu/DouglasYu/Papers> for pdfs
