Biodiversity Informatics and Data Science Postdoctoral Fellowship

Educational

Job Class
School Non Bargaining

Job Profile
Postdoctoral Analysis Fellow

Job Title
Biodiversity Informatics and Knowledge Science Postdoctoral Fellowship

Division
Analysis Help Biodiversity Analysis Centre School of Science

Compensation Vary
$1.00 – $500,000.00 CAD Month-to-month

Posting Finish Date
January 8, 2024

Word: Functions might be accepted till 11:59 PM on the day previous to the Posting Finish Date above.

Job Finish Date

Apr 30, 2026

The anticipated pay for this place is $5,416.66/month.

Biodiversity Informatics and Knowledge Science 2-year postdoctoral fellowship within the UBC Biodiversity Analysis Centre (2024-2026)

The UBC Biodiversity Analysis Centre is made up of over 90 school members with pursuits in ecology, evolution, systematics, biodiversity and conservation. We invite purposes for extremely motivated postdoctoral fellows fascinated about biodiversity science with a selected emphasis on bioinformatics and/or information science. Choice might be given to candidates with daring concepts, demonstrated analysis means, and robust communication abilities. The profitable candidate might be anticipated to conduct authentic analysis on core issues in biodiversity, foster interactions throughout the Centre, doubtlessly help in instructing an annual bioinformatics workshop and the event of an related on-line useful resource, and take a management function in Centre actions together with the annual retreat committee. Postdoctoral fellows funded by the Biodiversity Analysis Centre usually work together with a number of lab teams, and are a useful resource for graduate college students with related analysis pursuits. Candidates are welcome to contact potential collaborating labs within the Centre to inquire about present and potential analysis actions, however it’s not obligatory to use to work with a particular school member.
 

Beginning date: 1 Could 2024 (negotiable)

Wage: $65,000 per 12 months and advantages (together with prolonged well being and dental protection)

Analysis funds: $7,000 per 12 months

Mandatory {qualifications}: Candidates will need to have obtained, or count on to finish, their doctoral diploma in ecology, evolution or a associated area no later than Could 1 2024, and be capable to reveal a strong scientific background as evidenced by publication report and analysis assertion. Most popular abilities will embody information science strategies equivalent to use of command line, excessive efficiency computation, information administration abilities, and programming in R. People additionally should be inside 5 years following the completion of their Ph.D. to be eligible (with allowances for profession interruptions resulting from private circumstances).
 

Choice standards: The search committee will base their evaluation on the standard of analysis accomplishments thus far, the novelty and/ or potential impression of the proposed analysis, and the potential for the candidate to play a management function in our group, together with sustaining excessive requirements for moral skilled conduct.

To use, please present: a temporary cowl letter (1 web page), curriculum vitae, 1-2 web page analysis assertion of total scientific objectives and pursuits, and the names and make contact with data for 3 referees. Please additionally embody ½ web page assertion to develop on objectives and expertise associated to service and group constructing within the tutorial context, and embody how you’ll work to foster fairness, range and inclusion in these actions.

The analysis assertion is free kind nevertheless it ought to describe each the final pursuits and particular tasks that the candidate will interact in over the postdoc interval.

Importing directions: Submit your utility on-line on the UBC Careers webpage

Posting Finish Date: The posting might be eliminated on Monday, January 8, 2024. All supplies should be obtained by 11:59PM on Sunday January 7, 2024 to make sure full consideration. 

Fairness and variety are important to tutorial excellence. An open and various group fosters the inclusion of voices which were underrepresented or discouraged. We encourage purposes from members of teams which were marginalized on any grounds enumerated beneath the B.C. Human Rights Code, together with intercourse, sexual orientation, gender id or expression, racialization, incapacity, political perception, faith, marital or household standing, age, and/or standing as a First Nation, Metis, Inuit, or Indigenous particular person.All certified candidates are inspired to use; nonetheless Canadians and everlasting residents of Canada might be given precedence.