Cold-water Coral Ecosystem Restoration Postdoctoral

2 weeks ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

**UE07**:£39,347 to £46,974**

**CSE / Geosciences**

**Full-time (35 hours per week **)

**Fixed-term until 31 January 2028
**The Opportunity**:
Fixed term until 31 January 2028.

This post is full-time (35 hours per week) with work taking place between the Changing Oceans Group (School of GeoSciences) and Conservation Genetics Group (Roslin Institute).

**Your skills and attributes for success**:

- Working with industry, government and other partners to source corals from North Sea platforms and plan their transport, husbandry and deployment in restoration sites.
- Working with REDRESS project partners to align work and maximise efficiencies e.g. for use of artificial reef modules and to optimise restoration site selection.
- Work with REDRESS project partners to understand resilience of restoration areas to climate change and future human uses.
- Ensure sufficient coral populations are sampled to allow regional analysis of population genetics in North Sea and NE Atlantic margin. Complete the population genetics analysis and interpret considering pan-Atlantic analyses arising from published literature and results from recent projects.
- Understand and contribute to the evolution of marine policy and governance regimes that ultimately regulate deep-sea ecosystem restoration.

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**As a valued member of our team you can expect**:

- A competitive salary of (£39,347- £46,974)
- An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work.
- To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community.
- Comprehensive Staff Benefits, such as a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, and flexible work options. Check out the full list on our **staff benefits page **(opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits

**Championing equality, diversity and inclusion**

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our **right to work webpages **(opens new browser tab)

**Key dates to note**

Interviews will be held week of 26 June



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