Location(s)
3 Tenure-Track Professorships to build up Independent Research Groups
at the Courant Research Centre Geobiology, University of Göttingen,
Germany.
The positions are available immediately, will be at the German W1
salary scale (Junior-Professorship), have a reduced teaching
responsibility, six years of funding to build up an Independent
Research Group and a tenure option (W2 or W3 Professorships) depending
on successful review after 3 and 6 years.
This research centre will integrate contributions from different
fields of Geobiology: deep biosphere geomicrobiology, evolution of
early metazoans, and evolution of early land plants for a better
understanding of the origin and evolution of the biosphere and the
consequences for System Earth. We are seeking outstanding young
postdoctoral researchers with an internationally acknowledged track
record who will complement and strengthen our existing research
programs focusing on
(1) microbial ecology and biogeochemistry of subterranean environments,
(2) molecular (paleo-) biology and phylogeny of fossil and recent
metazoans, and
(3) molecular (paleo-) biology and phylogeny of fossil and early
recent land plants.
The applicant's research statement should explicitly outline how
interdisciplinary integration will be achieved among the research
groups as well as in cooperation with existing groups in Geobiology
and Plant Systematics, e.g. with the DFG Research Unit "Geobiology of
Organo- and Biofilms" (FOR 751), the DFG Priority Programme "Deep
Metazoan Phylogeny" (SPP 1174), and a project on "Deep Land Plant
Phylogeny". We expect that the successful candidates will closely
interact with the other members of the Courant Centre.
Subject to final official approval, to each of the Independent
Research Groups will be allocated
1 Postdoc position for 5 years
1 PhD student position for 5 years
1 technical assistant for 5 years
a budget of ca. 50.000 Euro per year for 5 years.
Applications including a CV, information on external funding and
awards, a list of
publications, the applicant´s three most significant articles, a brief
research plan fitting into the topics of the Courant Research Centre
as well as name and
address for two references are requested by December 3, 2007 and
should be
sent to the coordinator of the Courant Research Centre:
Prof. Dr. Joachim Reitner, Department of Geobiology, Goldschmidtstr. 3,
37077 Göttingen, Germany (phone: +49 551 39 7950; email:
jreitne@gwdg.de).
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