The mission of the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) as a nationally and internationally active research institute is to deliver solutions for an ecologically, economically and socially sustainable agriculture – together with society. ZALF is a member of the Leibniz Association and is located in Müncheberg (approx. 35 minutes by regional train from Berlin-Lichtenberg). It also maintains a research station with further locations in Dedelow and Paulinenaue.
The ZALF Research Group on “Soil Erosion and Feedbacks” aims at assessing soil erosion processes driven by wind, water, and anthropogenic activities as well as their general impacts on landscape functioning. For this strongly transdisciplinary goal we apply qualitative and quantitative approaches. A key issue of the working group is the integration of the different soil erosion processes on landscape scale. The research carried out in the light of expected future global changes finally helps to develop new innovative techniques and approaches to fight, cope with or mitigate negative effects of soil erosion especially in agricultural areas. Within this context our international Research Group gained a 3-years EU-project submitted in the 1st EU-Agroecology call. The project is entitled: “Supporting Agroecological Transitions of Agroforestry Landscapes using an Innovative Transdisciplinary Assessment Framework (AGRECO4CAST)”.
We are offering a 75% part time position (30 hours per week) temporarily limited for 3 years at our location in Müncheberg subject to final confirmation by the funding organization as
Researcher (m/f/d) assisting in project management and coordination having expertise in hydrological and soil erosion modelling
07-2025

YOUR QUALIFICATIONS:

• background knowledge (min. MSc level) in Geosciences with focus on hydrology and/or soil erosion assessment or related disciplines (e.g. Physical Geography, Geoecology, Geology, Remote Sensing, Soil Science, Agric. Engineering)
• as an internationally research institution, located in Germany we require good to very good written and spoken English skills and the willingness to take part in further training as part of the language courses in German offered internally
• experience in environmental modelling, particularly hydrological modelling
• experience in statistical analysis of geodata
• experience in GIS and coding (R, python, or similar)
• experience in coordination/management of scientific projects or research groups

• assist in the general management and coordination of the project
• carry out hydrological and soil erosion modelling using physically based models
• carry out landscape assessment using hind casting and forecasting investigations based on scenario analysis
• derive measures to prevent, mitigate or cope with effects like extreme events and water scarcity in the test areas