Job Description

Do you want to expand your research network across the dry tropics? Do you have skills in engaging partners in tropical research and developing high-quality ecological datasets? Do you want to further your career in one of the UK’s leading research intensive Universities?

The Ecology and Global Change research cluster at Leeds conducts world-leading research in tropical ecosystem ecology and change. We are looking to recruit a highly skilled Postdoctoral Research Fellow to lead plot data compilation for the SECO project. The central aim of SECO is to understand the carbon balance of tropical dry biomes using a combination of plot data, remote sensing and modelling.

You will be responsible for supporting the development of the plot dataset from the dry neotropics, with support from the project PIs and a wider team of collaborators in Leeds and beyond. You will conduct fieldwork in a variety of dry tropical biomes, developing and modifying existing protocols and ensure high-quality data supply to ForestPlots.net.

We will expect the successful candidate may contribute in other ways, including helping with analysis by users of ForestPlots.net, particularly by early career researchers in the neotropics. You will likely be based in the UK, but will work with colleagues especially in Latin America, and take part in potentially lengthy field campaigns. You will have excellent existing field skills and experience of using ForestPlots.net as well as skills in statistical analysis using R, a willingness to collaborate widely with colleagues in Latin America, as well as a track-record of publishing high-quality papers from your previous research.

To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact:

Professor Oliver Phillips

Email: [email protected]

or 

Professor Tim Baker,

Email: [email protected]