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Reader Biological Responses to Global Change University of Bristol

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader

Biological Responses to Global Change

University of Bristol - School of Biological Sciences

Reference: 16906

Contract: Permanent

Salary: £33,734 - £52,556 Level b - Level d in Pathway 1

Closing date for applications: 9:00am 09 Feb 2012

Anticipated start date: 01 Oct 2012

The School of Biological Sciences wishes to recruit an exceptional individual with internationally recognised expertise in studying biological responses to global change. We are particularly keen on a researcher who complements existing strengths in ecosystem services, ecological genetics, environmental genomics and crop genomics. This expertise, combined with university-wide strengths in complex systems, puts Bristol in a powerful position to provide leadership on the ecology, exploitation and evolution of managed ecosystems. We seek an individual who uses cutting-edge techniques to study adaptation in such environments and who can develop the areas linking model, crop and ecosystem research.

You will have, or be developing, an international reputation for research along with a track record in research income and publication to support this. You will be, expected to be, or have the potential to become a research leader, bringing or building your own research group and developing new research avenues with colleagues in both the school and the University at large.

The position forms part of a wider investment in the biological sciences at Bristol, and benefits from location in the new Life Sciences Building, a £50M development to be completed in late 2013. You will become a key player in fulfilling the agenda of the Cabot Institute, the University's new interdisciplinary centre for research on sustainability and climate change (http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cabot/).

There are three other posts being advertised in the area of Life Sciences, Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader in Sensory Biology (reference 16907), Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader in Behavioural Biology (reference 16908) and Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader in Systems Biology Approaches to Plant Water Use (reference 16909).

Interviews for all posts will run on various dates from 29 February through March 2012.

Contact for informal enquiries:
Professor I Cuthill (I.Cuthill@bristol.ac.uk | 0117 928 9177)