Contrato predoctoral para estudiar el impacto de olas de calor en aves 🌡️🐦 (Extremadura)

Contrato Predoctoral – Estudio macroecológico del impacto de las olas de calor en el comportamiento y supervivencia de las aves

Ubicación:
Universidad de Extremadura, España

Organización:
Universidad de Extremadura – Área de Zoología

Tipo de Contrato:
Contrato predoctoral en el marco del Plan Propio de Investigación de la Universidad de Extremadura (Acción II, Modalidad 1 – Contrato RC5)

Descripción Principal:
Se ofrece un contrato predoctoral para realizar una tesis doctoral sobre cómo los eventos de calor extremo afectan el comportamiento y la distribución de las aves, y cómo estas respuestas se relacionan con los rasgos ecológicos y de historia de vida de cada especie. El proyecto combina ecología térmica, comportamiento animal y teoría de historia de vida para entender la vulnerabilidad y resiliencia de distintas especies frente a condiciones climáticas extremas.

Se valorará interés en ecología, comportamiento animal, análisis de datos y cambio climático.

Metodología y herramientas:

• Procesamiento y análisis de grandes bases de datos GPS
• Análisis de datos de movimiento a través de R
• Modelos de supervivencia
• Modelos filogenéticos comparativos

Requisitos:

• Grado en Biología, Ciencias Ambientales, o Grado en disciplinas afines
• Máster universitario oficial, preferentemente en Biodiversidad
• Calificación media ≥ 7,0/10 y título de máster obtenido a partir del 1 de enero de 2020
• Se evaluará positivamente poseer experiencia investigadora acreditada, y la participación previa en congresos, publicaciones o proyectos, especialmente en el ámbito de estudio de las aves
• Se valorará la experiencia en el uso de R y la acreditación oficial de conocimientos de inglés

Beneficios/Condiciones:

• Duración: 1 año prorrogable hasta un máximo de 4
• Remuneración bruta anual: ~19.500 €
• Inicio previsto: segundo trimestre de 2026

Cómo Aplicar:
Los interesados pueden enviar su expresión de interés y CV a:

Dra. Andrea Soriano Redondo
Email: andreasoriano@unex.es

Más información:

• Convocatoria oficial: https://vrinvestigacion.unex.es/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2025/10/1-Plan-Propio-Investigacion-UEx-2025-2026.pdf
• Área de Zoología, Universidad de Extremadura: https://www.unex.es/conoce-la-uex/departamentos/?departamentoid=Y044&personid=4f7b8a8b1764bb944aac6030307f15e3

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Curso gratuito presencial: Tecnología y Biodiversidad (Badajoz, 11-13 Nov)

Del 11 al 13 de noviembre nos juntamos en Badajoz para celebrar el curso "Nature Tech for Biodiversity: Nuevas oportunidades para trabajar por la biodiversidad".

Es un curso presencial y gratuito de 3 días con 30 plazas disponibles (por orden de llegada).

¿De qué va?

De las nuevas oportunidades laborales que están surgiendo en la intersección entre biodiversidad, regulación y tecnología.

La nueva regulación está obligando incentivando a empresas a medir, reportar y proteger biodiversidad. Esto ha creado un sector completamente nuevo: startups, consultoras, perfiles especializados que no existían hace tres años.

¡El problema es que nadie te ha explicado cómo acceder a estas oportunidades!

Vamos a arreglarlo :)

Estructura del curso:

• Día 1: Panorama del sector y casos reales
• Día 2: Herramientas que usan las empresas (IA, drones, IoT, audiomoths...)
• Día 3: Tu estrategia personal – plan de acción concreto

Habrá montones charlas de profesionales del sector, empresas y perfiles especializados en Nature Tech.

Detalles prácticos:

✅ Fechas: 11-13 noviembre 2025
✅ Lugar: Badajoz
✅ Precio: Gratuito
✅ Plazas: 30 (registro por orden de llegada)
✅ Formato: Presencial (retransmisión de charlas invitadas)

Información oficial y registro:
eventos.unex.es/go/naturetech

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Nos estamos organizando en el Telegram del Biogrupo. Si quieres unirte para coordinar alojamiento, transporte o resolver dudas, apúntate a las Biotapas: biotapas.bioblogia.net

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Chief Conservation Officer opportunity 🌍 (Tusk - Africa wildlife conservation)

 Chief Conservation Officer (CCO)

Location: Africa (focus)

Organization: Tusk

Main Description: Tusk is seeking a forward-thinking and dynamic Chief Conservation Officer (CCO) to play a leading role in the future of wildlife conservation in Africa. With unprecedented challenges and opportunities facing wildlife and the communities who live alongside them, this role will play an important part in supporting conservation at scale and helping to elevate African leadership in the sector.

As CCO, you will support strategy and impact across a diverse portfolio of conservation partners, ensuring that funding and partnerships deliver meaningful, lasting change. You will bring rigor and creativity to programme design, grant oversight, and evaluation, while also nurturing collaborations that recognise and elevate African expertise and locally led solutions.

Reporting to the CEO and the Tusk Board, you will help bring conservation leaders together, share fresh approaches, and reinforce work at the community and landscape level – from ranger welfare to local engagement.

Requirements: The successful candidate will be a true team player, with excellent people skills.

Benefits/Conditions: This is a central role in our dynamic and passionate team. It is a unique opportunity to stand alongside other leaders in conservation: supporting local leadership, building strong networks, and contributing to a future where people and wildlife thrive together.

How to Apply: The closing date for applications is Monday 22nd September 2025 and all enquiries should be sent to elli@tusk.org.

Additional information available at: https://tusk.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Tusk-Chief-Conservation-Officer-Candidate-information-Aug-2025.pdf

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3 puestos camperos para monitorear rapaces en Castellón

 INDYCA Ingeniería busca incorporar tres técnicos/as de campo para realizar seguimientos específicos de especies en la zona de Castellón, concretamente en Morella.

La posición se centrará principalmente en el seguimiento de quebrantahuesos y alimoche, con posibilidad de ampliarse al estudio de otras especies planeadoras y otras especies forestales como gavilán, azor...

Condiciones del puesto:

➡️Jornada completa, de lunes a domingo, con un sistema de rotación de dos días de trabajo y un día de descanso.

➡️Alojamiento y vehículo proporcionados por la empresa.

➡️Contrato de un mes, con posibilidad de prórroga hasta un año.

Las personas interesadas pueden enviar su currículum vitae a: apanos@indycaingenieria.com

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Data Science Engineer position at environmental FinTech 🌍💼 (£55-75k + equity, London/remote)

 Data Science Engineer with NLP Experience at NatureAlpha

Location: London or partially remote (but able to check in with the team in London regularly)

Organization: NatureAlpha - a fast-growing, early-stage FinTech venture leading the market in technological innovation for environmental data insights

Contract Type: Full-time position

Main Description: NatureAlpha enables the world's largest Asset Managers to understand the impacts that their portfolio companies have upon the natural world. We utilise leading edge technologies to deliver Data as a Service and Software as a Service, enabling companies to understand their impacts upon nature and to identify where they need to improve and transform their operations.

We capture and process vast swathes of environmental data, transforming raw information into actionable insights. From tracking deforestation trends in the Amazon rainforest to monitoring carbon emissions across urban landscapes, NatureAlpha offers a panoramic view of our planet's health.

We are seeking an outstanding and experienced Data Science Engineer with experience with NLP processing to join our dynamic team. You will help design and build cutting-edge AI extraction systems. The ideal candidate will be responsible for architecting, managing, and maintaining large-scale data scraping, processing, and cleaning pipelines in Python.

Requirements: Required:

• Advanced degree in computer science, mathematics and physics, computational biology, or related field - or comparable experience in data science
• Experience giving presentations and communicating technical work to (non-technical) external teams
• 1+ of experience working in professional environment/data science is strongly preferred
• Understanding of advanced machine learning techniques and experience with Large Language Models (APIs). Knowledge of locally hosted LLMs is a plus
• Excellent knowledge of software development good practices and collaboration tools, including git-based version control, Python package management, and code reviews
• Experience with optimising large-scale data processing systems for performance and scalability
• English working proficiency and communications skills (verbal and written)
• Good presentation skills for conveying technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Good organisational skills and attention to detail with demonstrated ability to work proactively focusing on priorities across a range of tasks
• A team player, who can collaborate with others in a growing start-up

Preferred Qualifications:

• GCP as main cloud platform, however any cloud provider (AWS, Azure etc.) experience is valued
• Knowledge in containerisation using Docker is appreciated
• Understanding of Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) & DevOps processes, and experience applying them within an Agile framework is beneficial
• Experience with geospatial data formats, python libraries for geocomputation, and Postgres PostGIS

Benefits/Conditions:

• Salary: £55,000 - £75,000 based on experience
• Opportunities for share options
• London-based with option for partial remote work
• Work on cutting-edge environmental technology
• Join a fast-growing startup in the intersection of finance and environmental consciousness

How to Apply: Please apply on LinkedIn with your resume. For questions email careers@naturealpha.ai

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University Lecturer in Biostatistics (€4,200-5,300/month) at University of Helsinki, Finland

 University Lecturer in Biostatistics

Location: Helsinki, Finland (Viikki campus)

Organization: Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki

Contract Type: Permanent position starting no later than 1 January 2026

Main Description: The Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences is seeking a university lecturer with proven expertise in teaching and research in biostatistics, particularly as applied to ecology, evolutionary biology, or experimental biology. The university lecturer will be primarily responsible for teaching statistics and scientific computing courses at the bachelor's level, with possible contributions to master's-level teaching within the Faculty. The university lecturer will develop teaching in this field together with other teachers in the program, act as a supervising teacher, guide thesis work, and conduct scientific research. The teaching duties account for 40-60% of the total working time. The selected candidate is also expected to actively take part in teaching planning and administration.

Requirements:

• Doctoral degree
• Experience and evidence of scientific research
• Experience in high-quality, research-based teaching and thesis supervision
• Proficiency in Finnish (teaching demonstration required in Finnish)
• Good command of English
• Teaching and supervision merits: experience in research-based teaching and supervision, ability to develop teaching, pedagogical competence
• Research merits: evidence of active publication activity, demonstration of scientific activities, independent research ability
• Societal engagement: evidence of societal engagement and interaction

Benefits/Conditions:

• Salary based on levels 6–7 of the demand level scale: EUR 4,200–5,300 per month gross salary
• Startup package provided by the Faculty
• Access to up-to-date infrastructures and working environment in Viikki campus and biological research stations
• Support from teaching and research staff, administrative and technical staff
• Probationary period of six months
• Opportunity to work in dynamic and diverse research and teaching community

How to Apply: Submit application documents as a single PDF file including:

• Motivation letter (maximum 1 page)
• University portfolio
• Description of other activities

Instructions for university portfolio: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/about-us/careers/open-positions/instructions-applicants-teaching-and-research-positions

External applicants apply via: https://jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-University-Lecturer-in-Biostatistics/827896002/

Application deadline: 14.9.2025 (at 23.59)

Further information:

• Professor Anna-Liisa Laine: anna-liisa.laine(at)helsinki.fi, tel +358 294157750
• Professor Jarno Vanhatalo: jarno.vanhatalo(at)helsinki.fi, tel +358 294140639
• HR Specialist Harri Hamara: harri.hamara(at)helsinki.fi, tel +358 504489965

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Plaza de profesor permanente en Ecología Animal (Austria)

 Tenure-Track Professorship in Freshwater Animal Ecology

Location: University of Vienna, Austria

Organization: Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna

Contract Type: Tenure-Track position (initial 6-year contract as Assistant Professor, becoming permanent as Associate Professor after positive evaluation, with possibility of promotion to Full Professor)

Main Description: The University of Vienna seeks to fill a Tenure Track position in the field of Freshwater Animal Ecology. Freshwater ecosystems are hot spots of biodiversity with invaluable quality for human welfare, but are exposed to dramatic dynamics and pressures such as weather extremes, pollution, and invasion of exotic species. The successful candidate should have an excellent track record and expertise in freshwater invertebrate ecology, be familiar with classic morphological as well as modern molecular tools in taxonomy, and show strong commitment to teaching at all levels (Bachelor, Master, PhD). The position is embedded in the Department of Functional & Evolutionary Ecology, contributing to research and teaching in aquatic ecology with emphasis on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, targeting effects of global and climate change.

Requirements:

• Doctoral degree/PhD
• Two years of international research experience during or after doctoral studies
• Outstanding research achievements, excellent publication and funding record, international reputation
• Gender and diversity competence
• Experience in designing and participating in research projects, ability to lead research groups and acquire third-party funding
• Enthusiasm for excellent teaching and supervision at bachelor's, master's, and doctoral level
• Proficiency in German sufficient for teaching in bachelor's programmes and university committees (to be acquired within three years)

Benefits/Conditions:

• Opportunity to obtain permanent position and eventual promotion to full professor
• Dynamic research environment
• Wide range of research and teaching support services
• Attractive working conditions in a city with high quality of life
• Attractive salary according to Collective Bargaining Agreement for University Staff (level A2) and organisational retirement plan
• Support from Vienna Doctoral School of Ecology & Evolution (VDSEE), Environment and Climate Research Hub, and research platforms

How to Apply: Submit applications in English through the link "Apply now" including: letter of motivation, academic CV, education certificates, complete publication list with ORCID record, three key publications as PDF, research statement (max. 6 pages total), and teaching/supervision statement (max. 2 pages). Application deadline: September 17, 2025. Reference no.: 4428. Contact: tenuretrack.personal@univie.ac.at

Apply at: https://academicjobs.univie.ac.at/datenabfrage/TT0725LEWI01

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Plaza predoctoral en cáncer de mama y obesidad 🧬 Universidad de Navarra (3 años + posibilidad docencia)

 Plaza predoctoral para Tesis Doctoral en Nutrición y Metabolismo Molecular

Ubicación: Pamplona, España

Organización: Centro de Investigación en Nutrición (CIN), Facultad de Farmacia y Nutrición, Universidad de Navarra

Tipo de Contrato: Contrato pre-doctoral financiado por el propio centro, duración de 3 años

Descripción Principal:

Oferta de una plaza para la realización de una Tesis Doctoral en el grupo de Nutrición y Metabolismo Molecular, bajo la dirección de Dr. Miguel Burgos Lozano y Dra. Mª Pilar Lostao Crespo.

Título de la tesis: "Potenciales dianas terapéuticas relacionadas con el microambiente tumoral en pacientes de cáncer de mama con obesidad"

El proyecto investigará dos potenciales dianas terapéuticas del microambiente tumoral en pacientes de cáncer de mama postmenopáusicas con sobrepeso/obesidad y normopeso:

• Primer objetivo: Estudio de la regulación de la expresión y actividad del transportador de glucosa GLUT12 en el tumor
• Segundo objetivo: Investigación del papel de la alteración de mediadores lipídicos pro-resolutivos de la inflamación (SPMs), particularmente Maresina 1

Requisitos:

Indispensables:

• Titulación en grados relacionados con las Ciencias Biomédicas (Bioquímica, Biotecnología, Biología, Farmacia o similar)
• Calificación del grado igual o superior a 8
• Estar en posesión de título de máster en el caso de haber cursado un grado de 240 ECTS

Deseables:

• Conocimientos de técnicas de biología celular, molecular y bioquímicas
• Conocimientos de bioestadística y bioinformática
• Comunicación fluida en inglés tanto oral como escrita
• Capacidad de trabajar en equipo

Beneficios/Condiciones:

• Incorporación al programa de doctorado "Alimentación, Fisiología y salud"
• Duración de 3 años
• Posibilidad de impartir docencia práctica en las asignaturas del departamento de Ciencias de la Alimentación y Fisiología
• Posibilidad de estancia internacional predoctoral
• Proyecto financiado por el Departamento de Salud del Gobierno de Navarra (GN2024/52) y por la Agencia Estatal de Investigación Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (PID2023-147572OB-I00)

Cómo Aplicar:

Los interesados pueden enviar su CV y ponerse en contacto con:

• Miguel Burgos Lozano: mburgosloz@unav.es
• Mª Pilar Lostao Crespo: plostao@unav.es

Más información: https://www.unav.edu/web/centro-de-investigacion-en-nutricion Información del grupo: https://www.unav.edu/web/centro-de-investigacion-en-nutricion/investigacion/nutricion-y-metabolismo-molecular

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