Dr Littlefair has been awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship which
will investigate how ecological communities are responding to human
impacts globally and deliver technological solutions to the problem
of scale in biodiversity monitoring using the air quality networks. We
are seeking an experienced postdoctoral scientist to carry out field,
laboratory and bioinformatics research associated with the Future Leaders
Fellowship. Your role will be to conduct laboratory and field experiments
characterising the nature and dispersion of airborne eDNA. You will
conduct fieldwork and work closely with Dr Martin Wilkes (co-investigator,
University of Essex) to experimentally validate models of particulate
dispersal which will allow us to estimate the effects of wind flow on
sampling. You will also use long-term datasets collected by national
air quality networks to explain finescale temporal variation in species
richness, turnover, and community composition, and how these change over
time according to environmental variation and human impacts.

This role is an open-ended contract with a funding end date of 31/08/2028
in the first instance.

To apply for the job:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search-ucl-jobs/details?jobId=32004&jobTitle=Research+Fellow+-+Molecular+Ecology

Applications close on 12 March 2025. 

For informal enquiries please email Joanne Littlefair 
j.littlefair@ucl.ac.uk

"Littlefair, Joanne" <j.littlefair@ucl.ac.uk>

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