Post-doctoral researcher position at UNIBZ

The forest ecology group at the Free University of Bozen/Bolzano (South Tyrol, Italy) is seeking a highly motivated three-year fixed term post-doctoral researcher. The successful candidate will be expected to conduct high quality, creative, and impactful research complementing our group’s research in the field of forest ecology. In particular, the appointed researcher will have the opportunity to participate in ongoing projects and activities focusing on mountain forests dynamics and response to climate change, plant physiology and spatial ecology. The successful candidate will also teach courses and advise students. The expected teaching load is 60 hours per academic year.

Depending upon the candidate’s background and interests, research areas will possibly include:

• Forest dynamics and recovery following natural and anthropogenic disturbances;
• Tree physiology and traits adaptation to climate change;
• Temporal dynamics of forest production and growth;
• Development and application of quantitative analytical methods to large ecological datasets
  for improving the understanding of tree ecophysiology;
• Scaling tree physiological responses from cells to ecosystems by using in-situ
  measurements, models, and remote measurements;
• Manipulation experiments in forest ecosystems, with particular reference to nitrogen
  deposition;
• Climate-smart forestry.

Requested qualifications:

• PhD or equivalent foreign study title in the following or a neighbouring field: Forest
  sciences, biology or natural sciences;
• Readiness to conduct ecological fieldwork;
• Advanced programming skills in R/Python/MATLAB or equivalent languages;
• Experience with eco-physiological and/or forest biometric measurements;
• Demonstrated capacity of publishing peer-reviewed research;
• Excellent quantitative and analytical skills.

Requested qualifications:

• Experience with analysis of UAV-, air- and/or satellite-borne data;
• Experience with GHGs monitoring methods;
• Experience with LiDAR and post-processing procedures;
• Experience in training, teaching, and/or supervising;
• Experience in data science;
• Indication of previous inputs to code repositories such as GitHub.

Salary: the gross salary starts at 42000Eur/year. The position is located at the Free University of Bozen/Bolzano (IT).

For application and further information here

For informal enquiries: dr. Enrico Tomelleri; prof. Giorgio Alberti