Dear colleagues,
We are looking for colleagues who are interested in applying for a MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship (https://marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-postdoctoral-fellowships-2023) to join the Landscape Genomics Group at the Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture, Nord University, Bodø (Norway).
At 68 degrees north, Bodø is a vibrant city lying within an area of magnificent nature. Bodø is the perfect base for outdoor activities and exploration of Northern Norway. The Landscape Genomics Group (LGG; https://site.nord.no/landscapegenomics/) studies local adaptation and adaptive potential in natural, human-disturbed, and exploited populations. To do so, we study the ecology and evolution of (mostly) aquatic organisms across large and ecologically diverse landscapes. LGG belongs to the Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture (https://www.nord.no/en/about/faculties-and-centres/faculty-biosciences-and-aquaculture), which has a strong focus on ecology, evolution, molecular biology, aquaculture, animal sciences, and microbial biotechnology.
We are primarily interested in candidates who want to gain more experience in evolutionary biology, population/landscape genomics, genome biology, or bioinformatics. We offer training in research, teaching, supervision, project management and proposal writing both through the MSCA fellowship and a customized project. Four members of LGG have received an MSCA fellowship in the past and will guide the candidates throughout the application process.
We welcome researchers who either wish to pursue their own project ideas, or who can contribute to our ongoing research lines. Possible directions of projects include:
- Analysis of climate change and harvesting impacts on the pelagic fish community of Lake Tanganyika;
- The analysis of the relative contribution of population-level structural and sequence variation to freshwater adaptation in three-spined and nine-spined stickleback fishes;
- The analysis of species-level structural variance in vertebrates in order to determine the molecular and evolutionary drivers of genome architecture and size.
The project work may be purely informatic, but can also include fieldwork, experiments, and sequencing, facilitated by our genomics division. You can find more general information about the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships below.
Please send your CV and a short motivation letter to joost.raeymaekers@nord.no by 19th of June 2023 if you are interested in applying.
Best regards,
Joost Raeymaekers, Anja Westram, Konstantinos Sagonas, Roksana Majewska and Lars Martin Jakt
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About MSCA PF
The goal of MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships is to enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD, wishing to acquire new skills through advanced training, and international, interdisciplinary, and inter-sectoral mobility. MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships are open to excellent researchers of any nationality, including researchers wishing to reintegrate in Europe, researchers who are displaced by conflict as well as researchers with high potential aiming for a career restart in research. The scheme also encourages researchers to work on research and innovation projects in the non-academic sector.
Eligibility
- Experience: in possession of a doctoral degree. At the call deadline, a maximum of 8 years full-time equivalent experience in research, measured from the date of award of the doctoral degree.
- Nationality: any
- Mobility: the researchers must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the country of the host organization (in this case Norway) for more than 12 months in the 36 months immediately before the call deadline.
More information
https://marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/
https://marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-postdoctoral-fellowships-2023