Position Announcements

2018-09-10

Postdoctoral Researcher in Forest ecosystem services and biodiversity // 15 October 2018

The Department of Biological and Environmental Science is currently seeking to recruit staff to the position of Postdoctoral Researcher in Forest ecosystem services and biodiversity, for a fixed 3 year term starting 1.1.2019 or as agreed. The postdoctoral researcher will work in the research group of Prof. Mikko Mönkkönen in the Biodiversa funded project "Scenarios for biodiversity and ecosystem services acknowledging health”. This project is a part of a multi-national consortium, with collaborators in Sweden, Norway, Germany and Austria. The main aim of the project is to forecast the impacts of mitigating climate change impacts through the transitioning process from a fossil-based to a bio-based economy at a European scale. The key issues considered in this research are the impacts on forest biodiversity and the relationship to human health. This work includes simulating forest data to mimic various management alternatives at a landscape level, and then explore alternative policies through the use of optimization tools and Bayesian statistical models. As a multi-objective problem, trade-offs will be examined between criteria for biodiversity, the perceived impact on health, climate impacts and ecosystem services. The projected solutions will help in assessing how each country should contribute to mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. This assessment will include a quantification of the uncertainties of the conclusions.

Institution: Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä
Duty station: Jyväskylä, Finland  
Closing Date: 15 October 2018

Details: https://rekry.saima.fi/certiahome/open_job_view.html?did=5600&jc=12&id=00006127&lang=fi

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