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Research Associate in Computational Ecology

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Are you an ambitious researcher with skills in computational ecology or mathematical modelling? Are you interested in paleoecology links to climate change and mass extinctions, and looking for your next challenge? Do you want to be part of a large, cutting-edge research programming linking deep time patterns of extinction to contemporary insights about climate change? Do you want to further your career in one of the UK’s leading, research-intensive universities?

The Beckerman Lab, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield, is hiring a Research Associate as part of a UK Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC) /US National Science Foundation (NSF) funded project entitled: ‘CASCaDE: Community And Structural Collapse During Mass Extinctions’. You will work with a large, international, and cross-disciplinary research team to combine palaeontological data with cutting-edge advances in ecological theory to gain a holistic understanding of marine extinction dynamics linked to rapid climate change and mass extinction in the fossil record.

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