Young Investigator Group Leader - Bremerhaven, Deutschland - Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung

Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung

Geprüftes Unternehmen

Bremerhaven, Deutschland

vor 3 Wochen

Geschrieben von:

Lena Wagner

beBee Recruiter

Beschreibung

The Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) is a member of the Helmholtz Association (HGF) and funded by federal and state government.

AWI focuses on polar and marine research in a variety of disciplines such as biology, oceanography, geology, geochemistry and geophysics thus allowing multidisciplinary approaches to scientific goals.

Young Investigator Group Leader (M/F/d)

Background
As an internationally renowned Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, the

Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) is one of the very few scientific institutions in the world that are equally active in the Arctic and Antarctic. It coordinates German polar research efforts, while also conducting research in the North Sea and adjacent coastal regions in Germany. Combining outstanding research infrastructure, cutting edge field work, and innovative modelling approaches the Alfred Wegener Institute explores nearly all aspects of the Earth system and its biodiversity - from the atmosphere to the ocean floor, from the coasts to the ice-covered seas and adjacent land.

Call for Expression of Interest

thematic or

five years and offers access to a

tenure track procedure.

Eligibility

two and six years of postdoctoral experience (academic age). For maternity / parental leave of the birth giving parent, the track record considered can be extended by 18 months, or if longer by the amount of leave actually taken until the call deadline, for each child born after the PhD award. For parental leave of the parent not giving birth, the track record considered can be extended by the amount of parental leave actually taken until the call deadline for each child born after the PhD award. Parental leave times include periods of part-time work (no more than 25 % paid work), in which you took over the main share of family work. When calculating the academic age, we are guided by the gender-specific clock-stopping policies of the ERC Starting Grant as well as the DFG (number of years of active research after receiving the doctoral degree). Periods of unavoidable downtime of scientific career due to e.g. illness or care leave can also be considered. Further requirements are

international research experience as demonstrated by continuous research stay abroad for at least 6 months during the doctoral or postdoctoral studies and, of course, an exceptionally strong CV and draft proposal addressing one of the following topics for which we seek outstanding experts to strengthen our

research program.

Thematic track

1) Ecology of Antarctic benthic habitats
The YIG conducts research in the field of Antarctic benthic community function. Research interests will target habitat-building megafauna (e.g. sponges, corals), their metabolism and interaction with the biotic and abiotic environment as well as their susceptibility to multiple stressors and climate change.

The applicant should be experienced in benthic ecology using field observations with advanced optical, acoustic and geochemical in situ platforms, manipulative experiments in the field and in the laboratory and/or modelling approaches.

Broad expertise from shelf to deep sea habitats is an asset.

Information on relevant research at AWI, including contact persons from the AWI scientific section, can be found

here.

2) Phytoplankton ecology

The YIG conducts research in the field of phytoplankton ecology, with a clear focus of the central role of phytoplankton in the food web, with strong links to nutrients, microbes and higher tropic levels.

The aim of this position is to connect the long-term data, available from the LTER of Helgoland and Sylt to ecological experiments of many different scales with selected phytoplankton species and communities.

The applicant should use modern methods in phytoplankton ecology, have experience in experimental phytoplankton ecology and/or physiology of temperate phytoplankton, and form the nucleus of research on phytoplankton on the coastal stations of the AWI.

Information on relevant research at AWI, including contact persons from the AWI scientific section, can be found

here.

3) Structure, function and biogeochemistry of marine organic compounds
Information on relevant research at AWI, including contact persons from the AWI scientific section, can be found

here.

4) Marine chronobiology

The YIG conducts research at the intersection of marine zooplankton biology and the molecular basis of its rhythmic physiology and behavior.

Research interests should include the development of a suitable lab model system with the perspective to be amenable to forward genetic functional techniques.

By the same time, the chosen possible model needs to be of high ecological relevance, such as Calanus finmarchicus. The research interests also include work on the putative core circadian clock machinery on the level of cell culture and biochemistry, as well as the localiza