DURATION:

4 years
Volume of employment: fulltime
The University of Marburg, founded in 1527, offers a variety of excellent programs of study for around 22,000 students and confronts the important topics of our time through excellent research across a broad spectrum of sciences.
The Department of Geography, research group on “Environmental Informatics”, Vertr. Prof. Dr. Dirk Zeuss, is currently accepting applications for a
Researcher (Postdoc)
The position is offered for a period of 4 years, if no former times of qualification must be considered. The starting date is 1 October 2025. The position is fulltime (100 %) with salary and benefits commensurate with a public service position in the state Hesse, Germany (TV-H E 13).
We are looking for a highly motivated talent within the interdisciplinary DFG research group “The role of nature for human wellbeing in the Kilimanjaro Social-Ecological System”
(
https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/428658210
). You will be based in Work Package 1 of Subproject 7 to map and model stakeholder demand for Nature’s Contributions to People on Mount Kilimanjaro, using public participatory GIS and social-media analytics to expose demand–supply mismatches in the Kilimanjaro Social-Ecological System.

• Lead PPGIS workshops in 14 villages in Tanzania
• Assess and upscale social actors-specific NCP demand
• Use clustering and deep-learning on social-media data to upscale outputs into high-resolution NCP-demand maps
• Calculate and link mismatch maps to geolocated household data to test scale- and social actors-specific impacts on well-being
• Assist in analysis of data-driven scenarios for Nature’s Futures Frameworks
• Lead and coordinate synthesis work with the other subprojects
  The position is limited to the period which is adequate to the duration of the qualification period. The qualification goal is a habilitation or an equivalent qualification required for a professorship. Within the scope of the assigned duties it will offer the possibility of independent scientific research for further qualification. The limitation complies to § 2, 1 WissZeitVG.