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The University of Zurich, Switzerland's largest university, offers a range of attractive positions in various subject areas and professional fields. With around 10,000 employees and 12 professional apprenticeship streams, the University provides an inspiring working environment focused on cutting-edge research and top-class education.
Tasks
- Review and synthesise response diversity research relevant to EU biodiversity policy needs, especially restoration, deforestation, and corporate biodiversity reporting.
- Apply AI-assisted text analysis and network analysis to scientific literature, policy documents, and decision-making frameworks.
- Identify conceptual alignments, mismatches, and evidence gaps between response diversity science and European biodiversity, restoration, and sustainability policy.
- Analyse governance processes to determine where ecological resilience, system stability, and diversity mechanisms can strengthen conservation and restoration policy.
- Specify research needs for response diversity metrics and assessment methods that support biodiversity policy goals.
- Develop draft indicator sets and monitoring templates linking response diversity to ecosystem function, resilience, and sustainability goals.
- Produce peer-reviewed publications, policy-relevant outputs, and recommendations for embedding response diversity metrics in environmental assessments, reporting standards, and restoration funding guidelines.
- Participate actively in ReDiLEEP network training, secondments, dissemination, reporting, and cohort activities.
The position includes 4 months of planned secondments, with 2 months in non-academic settings, to strengthen the science-policy-practice interface:
- BioAgora: embedding in a BioAgora demonstration case (1 month, expected around project month 6).
- Swansea University: taking response diversity research from field to policy (1 month, expected around project month 12).
- CarU: linking response diversity monitoring and policy (1 month, expected around project month 18).
- Advanced Invasives: taking response diversity research from field to policy (1 month, expected around project month 24).
Requirements
- A Master's degree, or equivalent, in ecology, environmental science, geography, sustainability science, environmental policy, biodiversity governance, computational social science, data science, or a closely related field.
- Strong interest in biodiversity policy, ecosystem resilience, restoration, sustainability reporting, and the translation of ecological science into decision-making.
- Experience with literature synthesis, policy analysis, quantitative text analysis, network analysis, statistical modelling, or programming, preferably in R, Python, or comparable tools.
- Interest in AI-assisted analysis methods, science-policy interfaces, indicator development, monitoring frameworks, and EU environmental governance.
- Ability to work independently while contributing constructively to an international, interdisciplinary doctoral network.
- Excellent written and spoken English and strong scientific writing skills.
- Experience with EU biodiversity or sustainability policy, environmental assessment, corporate sustainability reporting, natural capital frameworks, stakeholder engagement, or open-science workflows is an advantage.
- Applicants must meet the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network eligibility requirements at the recruitment date.
- Applicants must not already hold a doctoral degree.
- Applicants must be doctoral candidates and be enrolled, or eligible to be enrolled, in a doctoral programme at the University of Zurich.
- Applicants must work full-time and exclusively for the ReDiLEEP project during the appointment, in accordance with the applicable MSCA and UZH rules.
- Mobility rule: applicants must not have resided or carried out their main activity, such as work or studies, in Switzerland for more than 12 months during the 36 months immediately before the recruitment date. Exceptions to the mobility rule apply for compulsory national service, refugee status, and temporary protection.
Benefits
- Flexible working models such as part-time positions, mobile working, and job-sharing.
- Childcare at the kihz foundation of UZH and ETH.
- Wide range of continuing education courses of UZH and the Canton of Zurich.
- Language Center run jointly with ETH Zurich.
- Food and drinks at reduced prices in the UZH cafeterias.
- Lunch-Check-card with UZH contribution.
- Special conditions on the Academic Sports Association ASVZ.
- Free seasonal flu vaccinations.
- Rest and relaxation at the quiet room in the university tower.
- Discounts on carsharing, vehicle rental, parking space, hardware, software, and mobile phone subscriptions.
- Support for people from outside Switzerland through International Services.
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Über uns
Die Universität Zürich ist eine öffentliche Universität des Kantons Zürich und bietet Lehre, Forschung und Weiterbildung in einem breiten Spektrum wissenschaftlicher Disziplinen an. Sie umfasst sieben Fakultäten und verbindet akademische Ausbildung mit Grundlagenforschung, angewandter Forschung, Nachwuchsförderung und Wissenstransfer. Die UZH arbeitet mit nationalen und internationalen Hochschulen, Forschungsinstitutionen, Spitälern, Unternehmen und öffentlichen Stellen zusammen und leistet Beiträge in Bereichen wie Medizin, Naturwissenschaften, Wirtschaft, Recht, Gesellschaft, Geisteswissenschaften und Theologie.
Das Team
The successful candidate will join an interdisciplinary cohort of doctoral researchers and benefit from ReDiLEEP training in response diversity methods, data management, reproducible code, R/Tidyverse, machine learning and AI for ecologists, visualisation, evidence-based policymaking, science-policy communication, and policy brief writing.