Research Associate Ecologist - Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland - Senckenberg

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Lena Wagner

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The Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung (SGN) is a member of the Leibniz Association and is based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

SGN conducts natural history research with more than 800 employees and research institutions in seven federal states. The Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F) explores the interactions between biodiversity, climate, and society.

Research Associate Ecologist (M/F/d)

(100% full-time position / part time solutions available)

BIOfid provides access to current and historical biodiversity literature.

It is a collaboration between SGN, the University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg at Goethe University, and the working group Computational Humanities/Text Technology at Goethe University.

Since the start of the pilot project on data mobilization from historical Central European biodiversity literature in German language, we have gradually expanded our service at the organismic (vascular plants, birds, moths and butterflies, soil invertebrates) and technological level (Text Mining Pipeline and Semantic Search Engine).

The developed tools should be re-usable to permit processing of further text corpora with other organism groups and/or other geographic regions in the future.


The applicant should lead the development of use cases that utilize data generated by text mining to advance fundamental research in ecology and biogeography concerning, e.g., past distributions of species and biotic interactions, such as pollination, herbivory or habitat preferences.

She or he should also establish a close communication network to the target group, present BIOfid advances and tools to the wider community and contribute to training researchers in using BIOfid tools.

The applicant will work in a team of software developers, taxonomists, ecologists, librarians and experts in informatics and text mining.


Your tasks

  • Lead the development of use cases that advance research on biodiversity change, in particular over the last two centuries
  • Coordinate the Senckenberg part of the overall project (communication with internal and external project partners, project administration, reporting to the funding authority and the scientific advisory board)
  • Develop workflows/user stories for data extraction and analyses targeting the overall aims of BIOfid (e.g. support the development of a customized NLP-Pipeline and the Semantic Search Engine)
  • Disseminate and promote the results and tools of BIOfid to the wider community of biologists, in particular but not limited to the fields of Ecology and Biogeography (e.g. conference contributions, workshops)
  • Contribute the user perspective in technical discussions
  • Conceptualize and evaluate userfeedback loops
  • Contribute to scientific publications that focus more on the related developments in informatics and text mining
  • Supervise student assistants

Your profile

  • PhD degree in Biology, Ecology, Environmental Modelling, Geography, or related fields
  • Strong experience in Ecology and/or Biogeography
  • Strong expertise in data analyses, statistics and programming, at least in R or Python
  • Strong interest to learn more about semantic technologies and machine learning
  • Documented ability to publish scientific papers in international journals
  • Research experience in interdisciplinary working environments
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills in English
  • Ideally at least good command of German
  • Very good leadership qualities and social skills

What is awaiting you?

  • An interesting and challenging task in a dynamic and inspiring team of researchers and technicians
  • The opportunity to be at the forefront of biodiversity informatics with project partners and colleagues dedicated to fostering open access to biodiversity literature and data
  • Excellent benefits and worklife

balance:
Flexible working hours - leave of absence due to family reasons (audit "berufundfamilie") - parent-child-office - annual special payment - company pension scheme - Senckenberg badge for free entry in museums in Frankfurt - leave of 30 days/year

Place of employment:
Frankfurt (Hesse) or Müncheberg (near Berlin)

Working hours:
full-time position (40 weekly working hours / part time options are available)

Type of contract:
the contract is to start as soon as possible and is inititally limited to a 28-month fixed-term contract


Salary:
according to the collective agreement of the State of Hesse (pay grade E 13, TV-H / TV-L)

Applicants with disabilities ("Schwerbehinderung") will be given preferential consideration in case of equal suitability.

Senckenberg actively supports the compatibility of work and family and places great emphasis on an equal and inclusive work culture.


You would like to apply?
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a one-page cover letter that addresses your fit to the advertised position as described above:

  • **your CV including names and contact details of two professional refer
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