Research Fellow in Quantitative/Network Ecology

Deadline for application: 15 October 2025

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 widely distributed air sampling
networks. We are seeking an experienced postdoctoral scientist to lead
on the data analysis associated with this project. Your role will be
to analyse biodiversity data derived from airborne environmental DNA
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. We are also interested in
approaches which integrate biodiversity data streams from other sources
and predict the validity of eDNA records from surrounding land use
datasets. You will lead on the management of these datasets from the UK
and across the world. The end goal is to derive multi-trophic ecological
networks from these datasets, using a combination of inference from
repeated temporal sampling and trait-based network approaches. You will
perform lab work alongside others in order to generate these datasets
(training and support is available from us). This is a fixed term role
with a funding end date of October 2028 in the first instance.

Full description and how to apply:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search-ucl-jobs/details?jobId=38076&jobTitle=Research+Fellow+%E2%80%93+Quantitative+Ecology

Enquiries: Dr Joanne Littlefair j.littlefair@ucl.ac.uk

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

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