Dear All,

A junior professorship position will open at the Ecobio
Lab, University of Rennes, France on quantitative and
computational approaches to the study of biodiversity
(https://www.univ-rennes.fr/recrutement-des-enseignantes-chercheures).
Applications will be accepted on the
French national platform Odyssee, job offer N° 253071
<https://odyssee.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/procedures/recrutement-ec/offres-poste/fiche-offre-poste/253071>,
from August 18 to September 18.  Interviews will then take place in
October, with the contract starting no later than December 15, 2025.
The profile is detailed below.

Best regards,

Sylvain Glémin

Quantitative and computational approaches to the study of biodiversity

Detailed description of research activities:
	One of today's challenges is to understand the responses
	of species and communities to anthropogenic pressures
	and global change, in order to predict their evolution
	in the near future. The availability of large datasets and
	high-performance analysis methods enables new approaches to meet
	this challenge. ECOBIO has strong expertise in experimental and
	field ecology, including long-term monitoring, and in multi-omics
	data production and analysis, and is looking to strengthen
	skills in complex and heterogeneous data analysis, modelling,
	meta-analysis, as well as the development of quantitative and
	predictive approaches.	The person recruited will develop research
	based on computational approaches (e.g. modelling, simulations,
	advanced statistics, AI, meta-analyses) and the analysis of
	"massive data" in ecology and/or evolutionary biology,
	available in public databases, within research observatories
	and/or the laboratory (e.g. inventories, habitats, traits,
	surveys, participatory science data, multi-omics data). The
	project must fit in with one or more of the UMR's themes, but is
	open in terms of biological models already considered within the
	UMR, ecosystems or territories studied, and spatial and temporal
	scales.  The successful candidate must also be able to respond
	to major national and European calls for research projects.
 Desired skills:
- Background in ecology and/or evolutionary biology - Management and
integration of complex and heterogeneous data - Statistics and data
analysis - Modelling, simulations
 Research laboratory: ECOBIO UMR 6553, Rennes
https://ecobio.univ-rennes.fr Contact: Julien Pétillon:
julien.petillon@univ-rennes.fr

Detailed description of teaching duties: The person recruited will
strengthen the B2E department team by teaching: - in evolution, both on
micro and macro evolutionary aspects. In
  particular, he/she will be involved in teaching population genetics,
  phylogeny... and/or
- community and population ecology, functional ecology. He/she may also
  be involved in statistics courses. and/or
- complex data analysis, modelling and meta-analysis, particularly in
  the context of new courses to be developed in our training offer.

These courses will be taught in particular in the Organismal Biology
Bachelors program and in the Biodiversity-Ecology-Evolution (BEE)
Masters program. Teaching will take the form of lectures, tutorials and
practical work. The person recruited will be expected to take on teaching
responsibilities and be involved in developing new teaching approaches.

        Expected skills in the use of online teaching resources.
The person recruited is expected to participate in the international
dimension of the school and to develop his/her teaching activities in
this direction. The person recruited will therefore be encouraged to
teach all or part of his/her course in English, and to participate in
the University's European and international openness, notably through
physical and/or virtual teaching mobility, and the development of
courses in collaboration with teachers and teacher-researchers from
member universities of the EDUC European University.
Teaching component: Biology, Ecology and Ethology Department
https://sve.univ-rennes.fr 
Contact: Jean-Christophe Sangleboeuf:
jean-christophe.sangleboeuf@univ-rennes.fr

Application procedure and timetable :
Application via the ODYSSEE application: from 18/08/2025 to
18/09/2025 https://odyssee.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr

Sylvain Glemin <sylvain.glemin@univ-rennes.fr>

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