Hifmb Focus Group Leader - Oldenburg, Deutschland - Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung

Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung

Geprüftes Unternehmen

Oldenburg, Deutschland

vor 2 Wochen

Geschrieben von:

Lena Wagner

beBee Recruiter

Beschreibung

The Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB) is a research institute located in Oldenburg. It researches marine biodiversity and its importance for the function of marine ecosystems. In doing so, it develops the scientific basis for marine nature conservation and ecosystem management.

The HIFMB was founded in 2017 and is an institutional cooperation between the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), and the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg.

HIFMB Focus Group Leader (M/F/d)

Background
- to form a new Focus Group in the institution to establish themselves in the domain of marine sciences.

See The PhD Requirement subsection for details.

The HIFMB
Our research at the HIFMB focuses on marine biodiversity and its importance for the functioning of marine ecosystems.

We aim to develop sensitive strategies to measure and understand environmental and social processes that influence or influenced by the change in biodiversity in marine systems, and implement effective means to define a scientific basis for marine conservation, marine governance, and ecosystem management efforts.

HIFMB is a highly interdisciplinary research environment that currently brings together experts from 18 countries who focus on contemporary yet distinct topics of research.

Our growing research portfolio to understand marine systems at the HIFMB spans from molecular ecology to human geography, microbial metabolism to mathematical modeling and art.

As a cooperation between the

University of Oldenburg (UOL) and the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar
- und Meeresforschung (AWI), the HIFMB benefits from its access to a diverse set of resources for cutting-edge research.

The new building of the HIFMB, which is scheduled to start its service at the beginnig of 2024, offers state-of-the-art wet-lab and computational resources. Our institution benefits from the large student body at the University of Oldenburg, and modern vessels and equipment for field experiments to study marine systems through AWI and our collaborators at

the Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM). The

Scientific Members of the HIFMB include scientists whose primary affiliation is elsewhere, but represent natural collaboration partners to the HIFMB scientists due to their secondary affiliations with the institution.

The HIFMB is located in Oldenburg, a city in Northern Germany, which is a region that is home to a large number of institutions dedicated to environmental and marine research.

In addition to the AWI and the ICBM, the institutions with which the HIFMB researchers regularly interact include the

Max-Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen,

the Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM) at the University Bremen, and

Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research in Bremen.

The Focus Group

The purpose for this search is to expand our research portfolio at the HIFMB with a new direction that complements our existing interests pursued by any of our core working groups at the institute, which include the Biodiversity Theory group, led by Thilo Gross; the Ecosystem Data Science group, led by A. Murat Eren; the Marine Conservation group, led by Iliana Baums; and the Marine Governance group, led by Kimberley Peters. Additionally, the Plankton Ecology group, which is in the process of being established, will be led by the HIFMB Director Helmut Hillebrand, and will focus on community ecology and marine molecular methods (see representative work by Silke Laakmann).

The budget of the research group includes a 5-year salary support for the Focus Group Leader (M/F/d), funding for two additional researchers (i.e., salary support for two PhD students or one PhD student and one technician), and start-up funds.

Tasks

The research area of the new Focus Group is not explicitly defined, and can be related to any topic that
- is relevant to the HIFMB mission,
- can benefit from synergistic interactions with two or more of the existing groups and
- implements a research program that promises new insights into marine sciences.

Thus, we invite early-career scientists from

any STEM discipline, including but not limited to those who study ecology, microbiology, genetics, mathematics, computer science, engineering, biochemistry, or biogeochemistry, to consider the HIFMB as a new home for their cutting-edge science for the next five years.

Requirements:

You are required to have obtained your PhD within the last 2-6 years. Please note the legal requirements in Germany for non-permanent positions (such as this particular Focus Group), as defined in

Further Information
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This is a full-time position, limited to 5 years. It is also suitable for part-time employment. The salary will be paid in accordance with the Collective Agreement for the Public Ser