Postdoctoral fellow studying birds on islands

We are looking for a postdoc to work on a project on biogeography,
genomics, and conservation of birds on land-bridge islands, based at
Naturalis Biodiversity Center (Leiden, Netherlands), and part of an
international team.

You will be working on a NWO-funded project led by Dr. Lu�s Valente, which
aims to study the biogeography, population genomics and evolution of bird
species on land-bridge islands around the world. The project has a global
focus, but it will also zoom-in on the bird fauna of the tropical island of
Bioko (Equatorial Guinea). You will perform bioinformatic, macroecological
and morphometric analyses. For the bioinformatics, you will analyse
sequence-capture genomic data (ultraconserved elements, UCEs) from museum
specimens of birds. For the macroecological analyses, you will compile a
new global database and use it to investigate global patterns of avian
diversity on land-bridge islands. For the morphometric analyses, you will
measure museum specimens and analyse them in combination with the UCE data.

Beyond the scientific components above, the project involves an educational
and conservation programme on the island of Bioko, in collaboration with
the National University of Equatorial Guinea, and the Bioko Biodiversity
Protection Program (NGO). You will contribute to this by engaging with our
partners in Equatorial Guinea, as well as local students from the island of
Bioko. The project does not involve fieldwork on birds, but you will have
the opportunity (if you so wish) to join field expeditions to the tropical
rainforest of Bioko as part of our monitoring and educational program.

Within the Naturalis research group Biodiversity Hotspots, you will work
closely with Dr. Lu�s Valente. You will also work together with Dr. Martim
Melo (FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, South Africa) and Prof.
Sonya Clegg (University of Oxford, UK). The project is a collaboration with
Prof. Liliana D' Alba (Naturalis), Prof. Maximiliano Fero (University of
Equatorial Guinea), the Bioko Biodiversity Protection Program (BBPP) and
Dr. Luke Powell (CIBIO, Portugal).

You can find the description of the position here:
https://www.naturalis.nl/en/about-us/job-opportunities/postdoc-birds-on-islands

Lu�s Lima Valente <luis.valente@naturalis.nl>

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