PhD Position, Vienna

The University of Vienna (19 faculties and centres, 178 fields of study, approx. 9.600 members of staff, about 92.000 students) seeks to fill the position as soon as possible of a University Assistant (pre-doc) at the Department of Palaeontology. This advertisement is for a PhD position at the Department of Palaeontology, in the working group on Environmental Palaeontology, group leader Martin Zuschin, close cooperation partners are Paolo Albano and Adam Tomasovych.

The group research topics are Conservation Paleobiology and Historical Ecology, Stratigraphic Paleobiology, Macroecology, Ecology and paleoecology of Recent and Pleistocene coral reefs. Our focus is mostly on the Cenozoic marine fossil record. Recent and current research projects include:

• Historical ecology of the Lessepsian migration.
• Historical ecology of the northern Adriatic Sea.
• Conservation palaeobiology of oil-polluted tropical marine biota in the Arabian Gulf.
• Biodiversity of Cenozoic molluscan faunas of Europe.
• Stratigrapic paleobiology of Pliocene brachiopod shell beds of southern Spain.

Job Description:
Participation in research, teaching and administration:

• The successful candidate works on her / his doctoral thesis.
• We expect the successful candidate to sign a doctoral thesis agreement within 12-18 months.
• Participation in teaching and independent teaching of courses as defined by the collective agreement.
• Supervision of bachelor and master students (in particular on topics that are related to the doctoral thesis of the candidate).
• Involvement in the organisation of meetings, conferences, symposiums.
• Participation in research projects / research studies.
• Participation in publications / academic articles / presentations.
• Involvement in the department administration.

Duration of employment: 4 year/s
Extent of Employment: 30 hours/week 
Reference number: 8758
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