The University of Oulu is a multidisciplinary, international research university, with about 3,600 employees who produce new knowledge based on high-standards research and provide research based education to build a more sustainable, smarter, and more humane world. The University of Oulu community has about 17,000 people in total. Our northern scientific community operates globally and creates conditions for the emergence of innovations.
We are now looking for a

TENURE TRACK ASSISTANT OR ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN FRESHWATER BIODIVERSITY

to join us in the interdisciplinary research program “SAFIRE: Safeguarding Biodiversity through Interdisciplinary Research on Habitat Restoration” at the University of Oulu (Finland).
We are looking for a motivated and talented researcher with a strong background in freshwater biodiversity and research on or relevant to habitat/environmental restoration to join our interdisciplinary Research Council of Finland Profi8 programme.
SAFIRE is a new strategic research programme which brings together the faculties of Sciences, Humanities, and Information Technology and Electrical Engineering. SAFIRE’s focus is the production of scientifically excellent and actionable knowledge on habitat restoration, especially in the Arctic regions. SAFIRE aims to develop transdisciplinary processes to improve habitat restoration through basic and applied science, engaging and co-producing knowledge and solutions with societal actors, and the integration of advanced modelling approaches, both at the level of individual projects and at an institutional level within the University of Oulu SAFIRE will also advance research and discussion concerning the multiple environmental and societal contributors to ecosystem restoration and will strengthen the collaborative role of the natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities, and engineering, in current political and scientific debates about the environment, especially but not limited to the Arctic. Through three linked tenure track appointments and significant investment in transdisciplinary collaboration between research disciplines and with societal actors, SAFIRE will promote inter- and transdisciplinary and citizen-engaged studies of the environment and raise the University’s profile as an international leader in restoring inter-related ecological and social systems. SAFIRE is part of a wider Profi8 program at the University of Oulu, funded by the Research Council Finland, and it is co-led by the Faculties of Science and Humanities at the University of Oulu.

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