Geographer/ Landscape Ecologist / Data Scientist

Ufz - via Umantis - Leipzig - 17-03-2019 zur Vakanz  

Subject: Ontologies and provenance analysis for global land use data

Working time: 100% (39 hours per week), limited to 36 months
Employment is subject to approval of funds by the sponsoring party.

Your tasks:

A detailed synthesis of global land-use pattern and their dynamics is needed to assess biodiversity, land use and food security issues. To jointly analyze such heterogenous mostly gridded global data, a generic ontology (“Essential Land use Variables”) shall be developed, that supports meta-data generation and leads to identification of possible circular reasoning in data synthesis. This post is specifically responsible for developing test-cases characterizing global biodiversity, land use and socio-economy. You will be supporting project management, support open-science collaborative data science solutions and will lead and contribute to project publications.

Your profile:

  • Knowledge in the analysis of global land use data with respect to biodiversity and ecosystem services pattern and processes
  • Methodological skills related to meta-data, large/complex modelling workflows, geo-statistical analysis, geographic data infrastructures, command-line based data analysis, open-source programming languages (e.g., Python, R, Git)
  • PhD in any project-related field and interested in developing a career in science
  • proactive, results-oriented, and with excellent team and communication skills (English)

Please provide the following information with your application:

  • A cover letter explaining your motivation to apply for the position, your interest in the announced position/topic, and any job-related experience you think is important (including applied methods)
  • A detailed curriculum vitae including a detailed account of relevant technical skills/prior experience
  • access to one of your recent statistics/modelling projects relevant for this position (e.g. paper, GitHub repository)
  • Copies of certificates (high school/ B.Sc./ M.Sc./ Ph.D.), and a transcript of all covered subjects and grades (B.Sc./ M.Sc.), publication list
  • At least one relevant recent own publication
  • Two references

We offer:

  • Excellent technical facilities which are without parallel
  • The freedom you need to bridge the difficult gap between basic research and close to being ready for application
  • Work in inter-disciplinary, multinational teams and excellent links with national and international research networks including the project partners
  • A vibrant region with a high quality of life and a wide cultural offering for a balance between family and professional life
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