Job: Research Associate / Postdoc (m/f/d) (Pay grade 13 TV-L, 100%)

The DFG-funded Research Training Group “Ecological Regime Shifts and Systemic Risk in Coupled Social-Ecological Systems” (ECORISK) deals with the causes of ecological regime shifts and their potential consequences in social-ecological systems in an interdisciplinary approach. ECORISK aims at training a new generation of innovative scientists capable of dealing with complex sustainability challenges. It brings together perspectives from behavioral economics, ecological modeling, environmental systems science, geography, geoinformatics, political science, and sociology. ECORISK is located at Osnabrück University, which is renowned for its outstanding interdisciplinary research and embedded in a city with an excellent quality of life.

In the subproject ›Design principles for governing systemic risk‹ at the Institute of Geography in the School of Cultural and Social Sciences, a position as

Research Associate / Postdoc (m/f/d)
(Pay grade 13 TV-L, 100%)

is to be filled on a fixed-term basis until September 30, 2029, starting on October 1, 2024.

Your Duties:

• Scientific work on design principles for governing systemic risks arising from ecological regime shifts
• Participation in and contribution to the events of the Research Training Group

Requirements:

• Very good completed PhD as well as an above-average academic degree in the field of Environmental System Science, Geography, Environmental Governance or a related discipline
• Strong research interest in interdisciplinary perspectives on questions of ecological regime shifts and systemic risks in social-ecological systems
• Very good English language skills in both spoken and written form
• Experience in combining quantitative and qualitative methods

Additional Qualifications:

• Experience in interdisciplinary and international collaboration
• Experience in comparative case study analyses and the application of Qualitative Comparative Analysis

We offer:

• • Participation in an exciting and highly topical research project
  • Opportunities to acquire relevant research experience
  • Collegial collaboration in an interdisciplinary, international, and diversity-oriented team that values equity
  • Tailored training opportunities

The position is available on a full-time or part-time basis.

Osnabrück University is a family-friendly university and is committed to helping working/studying parents balance their family and working lives.

Osnabrück University seeks to guarantee equality of opportunity for women and men and strives to correct any gender imbalance in its schools and departments.

If two candidates are equally qualified, preference will be given to the candidate with disability status.

Please send applications, including a maximum two-page motivation letter for the advertised position, a curriculum vitae (CV) (possibly including a list of publications), transcripts of previous academic degrees (BA/MA, including Transcripts of Records), and the name and email address of a potential reference, in electronic form as a single PDF file via email by June 18, 2024, to: ecorisk@uos.de.

For questions regarding this job advertisement, please also contact Claudia Pahl-Wostl (cpahlwos@uni-osnabrueck.de) or Martin Franz (Martin.Franz@uos.de).

Further information about this subproject and the Research Training Group can be found at: www2.uni-osnabrueck.de/ecorisk.