05 Postdoctoral Fellowship at Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands

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Are you a PhD graduate eager to take the next leap in your academic journey? Look no further! Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands invites online applications for prestigious Postdoctoral Fellowships across a wide range of research fields. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to propel your career forward.

Candidates interested in Postdoctoral Fellowships can check the details and may apply as soon as possible.

(01) Postdoctoral Fellowship Position

Postdoc summary/title:–Postdoctoral researcher in ethnographies of indigenous knowledge, climate change, and mobile livelihoods in Senegal

You will develop, supervise, and carry out high-quality research in collaboration with the consortium partners, colleagues at the Environmental Policy Group and Wageningen University and Research, as well as your own international networks. Your research (including fieldwork and desk-based research) will result in co-authored publications in respected international journals as well as societal output, such as media pieces or support in climate-cultural visualizations the project will make with with indigenous communities through artwork and videography. The research will contribute to environmental and critical social science debates through an empirical case study of semi-nomadic pastoral and fishing communities in Senegal. You will have prior ethnographic and qualitative research experience and an ambition to apply this experience to the topic of human mobility and climate change.

In addition to this work, you will also support Dr. Ingrid Boas and Dr. Annah Zhu in the coordination of the CuHeMo consortium work, such as helping to ensure that methodologies and data management align across the case-studies, including those executed by other consortium partners. You may also contribute to internationally oriented teaching programme at Wageningen University. This could involve guest lecturing and supervision of BSc and MSc students.

Deadline : 1 July 2024

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(02) Postdoctoral Fellowship Position

Postdoc summary/title:– Postdoctoral Researcher

The Section Economics based at Wageningen University is inviting applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship position starting on October 1, 2024. As postdoctoral researcher, you will work in a NWO funded project focusing on the intra-household allocation of educational resources in low- and middle income countries. In particular, you will be responsible for the preparation and implementation of a field experiment in Indonesia. Your tasks include experiment and survey design, communication with research partners, data analysis and drafting of articles in close collaboration with the team members. You are expected to dedicate at least 75% of your research time to this project, while the remaining 25% can be spent on your own research initiatives.

Deadline : 2 June 2024

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(03) Postdoctoral Fellowship Position

Postdoc summary/title:– Postdoctoral Research Associate on Data science for wildlife camera trapping

The Wildlife Ecology and Conservation group (WEC) of Wageningen University studies how humans and the environment influence wildlife, using a wide variety approaches including wildlife camera trapping. WEC members run camera-trap surveys in many places across the globe, develop novel methods for camera trapping studies, and develop and manage the camera-trap data management platform Agouti
WEC is looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate on Data Science for Wildlife Camera Trapping to work within the NWO-funded BIODIVERSA+ project “Big Picture”.

This collaborative project aims to support European, national, regional and stakeholder organisations’ efforts to conserve and manage biodiversity by enhancing their timely access to robust monitoring data for a wide set of species not currently covered by accessible monitoring data.

Deadline : Open Until Filled

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(04) Postdoctoral Fellowship Position

Postdoc summary/title:– Postdoc researcher – quantification of upstream downstream linkages in the rivers originating in High Mountain Asia

Are you interested in the impact of climate change and the melting of snowpacks and glaciers in High Mountain Asia on food production downstream? And do you like working with numerical models? Then this may be a good opportunity for you!

The Earth Systems and Global Change Group is looking for a Postdoc researcher (3 years) who is interested in the High Mountains of Asia and their link to the food producing regions that receive water from those mountains. This position is part of the ERC project 3POLE2SEA. The overall goal of the 3POLE2SEA project is to increase the understanding of the links between the water stored in the High Mountains of Asia and the water- and food security of the 1.9 billion people living in the areas downstream of those mountains, now and in the future, and use this understanding to support adaptation design. Together with 2 PhD students, another Postdoc and technical support, you will work on the design of adaptation strategies to make agriculture in one of the largest food producing areas in the world more resilient to changes in the mountains.

As a postdoc, you will take the lead in setting up a cryosphere-hydrology-crop model for the entire study region, consisting of High Mountain Asia and 12 big river basins originating from it. You will couple a mountain hydrology model (SPHY) to a hydrology-crop production model (LPJmL), prepare all input data and develop some new features in the model.

Deadline : 27 May 2024

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(05) Postdoctoral Fellowship Position

Postdoc summary/title:– Postdoc in ERC project ‘Politics of the Periphery in Urban Latin America’ – Medellín

The Sociology of Development and Change (SDC) Group welcomes applicants for the position of a postdoctoral researcher (3 years; 0.9 fte) in POPULAR. POPULAR is a comparative ethnographic research project led by Dr Martijn Koster. It investigates the relationships between residents of low-income neighbourhoods and the state around issues of housing and urban development in three domains: governance, electoral politics, and activism. It compares three cities in Latin America where housing is an urgent issue: Medellín (Colombia), Santiago de Cuba (Cuba), and Recife (Brazil). The research is carried out by a team of 3 PhDs, 2 Postdocs and Dr Koster.

You will be based at Wageningen University, carry out two three-month periods of ethnographic fieldwork in Medellín, and conduct desk research. The focus of your research will be on the city’s housing regime: the configuration of actors, institutions, and resources through which housing is organized. It includes urban development programs, and other public(-private) interventions on housing shortages and tenure legalisation. The housing regime is also affected by electoral politics, and forms of activism. You will carry out interviews and participate in meetings with key figures in the housing regime, and activists, to study how they perceive of the low-income populations and the need for housing, and how they envision the role of the state.

Deadline : 20 May 2024

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About Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands – Official Website

Wageningen University & Research is a public university in Wageningen, Netherlands, specializing in technical and engineering subjects and an important center for life sciences and agricultural research. It is located in a region of the Netherlands known as the Food Valley.

WUR consists of Wageningen University and the former agricultural research institute of the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture. Wageningen University trains specialists (BSc, MSc and PhD) in life and social sciences and focuses its research on scientific, social and commercial problems in the field of life sciences and natural resources. It is widely known for its agriculture, forestry, and environmental studies programs. The university has about 12,000 students from over 100 countries. It is also a member of the Euroleague for Life Sciences (ELLS) university network.

WUR has been placed among the top 150 universities in the world by four major ranking tables. Wageningen has been voted the number one university in the Netherlands for fifteen consecutive years. The university is listed number 59 in the world by the Times Higher Education Ranking and the world’s best in agriculture and forestry by the QS World University Rankings 2016–2020.Wageningen University is ranked number one in the fields of plant/animal science, environment/ecology, and agricultural sciences by U.S. News & World Report. The university is widely regarded as the world’s top agricultural research institution.

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