Helsinki, Finland
A one-year postdoctoral position is available to study the
evolutionary ecology of territoriality in birds, using both data
analysis and modelling. The starting date is flexible, as is the
ratio of either type of work. The task is to examine how strategies
of breeding site choice create and modify density dependence and
other population-level phenomena. The position is in the lab of prof.
Hanna Kokko (see www.helsinki.fi/~hmkokko/LEED.html), where several
postgraduate & postdoctoral researchers work on combining theoretical
developments and empirical datasets to gain insight on both
evolutionary and ecological processes. This provides a very good
environment for developing theoretical skills for an interested
empiricist, or alternatively, a chance for a theoretician to learn to
apply modelling results to large datasets.
The main dataset available is a long-term (> 20 years) collection of
breeding records for hundreds of individually marked guillemots Uria
aalge, and this part of the work will be done in collaboration with
researchers in Scotland (prof. M. Harris and Dr. S. Wanless; see
Kokko et al. 2004 J. Anim. Ecol. 367-376). There are also
possibilities to develop models of migration and breeding strategies
of black-tailed godwits Limosa limosa that migrate between England
and Iceland, based on a collaboration between prof. Kokko and Drs.
Jenny Gill and Tomas Gunnarsson and Prof. Bill Sutherland (University
of East Anglia, UK), as well as to analyze breeding site choice of
blue-footed boobies Sula nebouxii (collaborative partner: Dr. Roxana
Torres, UNAM, Mexico).
Successful applicants should have a Ph.D. in evolution, ecology or a
related field. We expect someone with strong analytical skills, with
an emphasis on either modelling or data analysis. Review of
applications will begin immediately and continue until a candidate is
selected. The annual salary is 31320 EUR.
To apply please send a cover letter expressing research interests,
CV, and names and e-mail addresses of three references to: Prof.
Hanna Kokko (hanna.kokko@helsinki.fi), Laboratory of Ecological and
Evolutionary Dynamics, Dept of Biological and Environmental Sciences,
PO Box 65, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland.
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Hanna Kokko
Laboratory of Ecological and Evolutionary Dynamics,
Dept of Biological and Environmental Sciences, PO Box 65,
00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
tel +358 9 1915 7702, fax -7694, hanna.kokko@helsinki.fi http://www.helsinki.fi/~hmkokko
Hanna Kokko
