Senior researcher soil ecology & biodiversity - NIOO-KNAW - Wageningen

at  Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen

Location: Wageningen
Hours per week: 30.4-38 hours per week
Max salary: €6.737,-
Contract duration: 1 year with the possibility for a permanent contract after that
Deadline for application: 1 July 2024
At the department Terrestrial Ecology, we aim to understand, predict, and mitigate the effects of climate change, biodiversity loss and land use change in land-based ecosystems. Our research focuses on interactions between plants, microbes, and (in)vertebrates, in the soil and aboveground. Our approach is conceptual-experimental, and ranges from evolutionary adaptation to community interactions and ecosystem processes. Our aim is to enhance fundamental understanding of interactions and processes in nature in order to learn how to promote sustainability of life on Planet Earth.
NIOO aims to have at least 40% women and men within each functional group at NIOO. Given the current representation, we particularly encourage women to apply.

As a senior researcher, you will further develop your own experimental-fundamental research line in a way that is well connected to the departmental research fields and NIOO’s research themes. You will achieve this by initiating, conducting and coordinating independent research, acquiring research funding, publishing in scientific journals, and reaching out to a wider audience. In your role, you will keep sight of making scientific and societal impact with your work.
Within our department, we strive for variety in research backgrounds, both at the group and on an individual level. We value collaboration and stimulate each other to share and connect knowledge and research within the team, within NIOO, and in connection to the national and international research landscape. You will play an active role in fostering this way of working by leading and further developing your own research group in an inspirational way and by networking internally and externally.